some news in here: pre-covid, Buzzfeed expected to make a $30m profit this year. now the company is hoping to *only* lose $20m for 2020. Vice is still on track to turn a profit this year, thanks to heavy cuts. https://t.co/4AXvsCKTmG
The question isn’t whether Solemaini was a bad guy. The questions are:
1. What are the likely consequences of his assassination?
2. Do you trust the Trump administration to have planned for those consequences and to manage what comes next?
[Thread]1/ This one is about the fake news claiming that a sick boy on the floor of a hospital in leeds was staged by his mother. We know the story is real, Dr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer at Leeds even apologised https://t.co/3HNvsR2PWJ
What's going on here then? Facebook ad by Johnson, comments section in unison "Brilliant Boris 🇬🇧🇬🇧" then it changes to "Support Boris 100%" - all with similar amounts of likes giving them a boost. Call me cynical but... @mrjamesob@JimMFelton@carolecadwalla@davidschneider
As the editor in chief of ProPublica, I’m always telling reporters to read their work out loud. As an experiment, I tried that with today’s rough transcript of President Trump’s phone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. The results are illuminating.
Smacking myself in the face for not spotting what that Johnson nonsense about making buses was all about: Google search now gives you the model bus bollox rather than the £350m NHS bus bollox #BorisBus
Last week @arron_banks & @andywigmore went to Veneto, the heartland of Italy's Lega Nord. Today, the plan is revealed. The fascists have agreed to help Britain exit without a deal. Salvini will block an extension of article 50. We're fucked.
Hello @Facebook. Shall we talk about how your new ad transparency "rules"?
Here's a pro-Brexit advert placed two days ago. It was "paid for by Cambridge Analytica". Posted by "Insider Research Group". And uses an image by the disgraced law-breaking campaign group, BeLeave...