United Talent Agency is making changes to the leadership of its news and broadcasting department, the unit that negotiates on behalf of journalists and news personalities.
According to a memo sent to staff Tuesday by UTA vice-chairman Jay Sures and COO and co-head of UTA Sports Andrew Thau, the agency is elevating Ryan Hayden and Marc Paskin to be co-heads of its news and broadcasting department.
Peter Goldberg, who had led the department since 2017, will stay with the company as a partner and senior agent. Goldberg joined UTA in its acquisition of N.S. Bienstock, the agency that helped create the market for news and journalism talent under the leadership of the late Richard Leibner.
Paskin and Hayden will report to Sures in their new roles, with Hayden also continuing to oversee UTA Sports alongside Jerry Silbowitz, reporting in to Thau.
“We are excited for the next chapter for these groups...
According to a memo sent to staff Tuesday by UTA vice-chairman Jay Sures and COO and co-head of UTA Sports Andrew Thau, the agency is elevating Ryan Hayden and Marc Paskin to be co-heads of its news and broadcasting department.
Peter Goldberg, who had led the department since 2017, will stay with the company as a partner and senior agent. Goldberg joined UTA in its acquisition of N.S. Bienstock, the agency that helped create the market for news and journalism talent under the leadership of the late Richard Leibner.
Paskin and Hayden will report to Sures in their new roles, with Hayden also continuing to oversee UTA Sports alongside Jerry Silbowitz, reporting in to Thau.
“We are excited for the next chapter for these groups...
- 4/23/2024
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The suspect accused of calling in last year’s bomb threat to Boston Children’s Hospital amid a wave of harassment has pleaded guilty, the Massachusetts District Attorney’s office announced Thursday.
Westfield, Massachusetts resident Catherine Leavy, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of making a false bomb threat and one count of “intentionally conveying false or misleading information that a bomb was on the way.”
Prior to Leavy’s Aug. 30 bomb threat, Boston Children’s Hospital had experienced weeks of targeted harassment, vitriol, and death threats aimed at their Gender Multispecialty...
Westfield, Massachusetts resident Catherine Leavy, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of making a false bomb threat and one count of “intentionally conveying false or misleading information that a bomb was on the way.”
Prior to Leavy’s Aug. 30 bomb threat, Boston Children’s Hospital had experienced weeks of targeted harassment, vitriol, and death threats aimed at their Gender Multispecialty...
- 9/28/2023
- by CT Jones
- Rollingstone.com
The first-ever East Coast edition of VidCon is bulking up its industry track.
VidCon’s industry track is a staple of the annual main convention in Anaheim, Calif., but VidCon Baltimore is putting even more focus on professionals: It’s bringing in industry speakers including Night president Ezra Cooperstein and Karat Financial co-founder Eric Wei, plus is hosting an industry leadership summit it says will be “an exclusive gathering of key stakeholders shaping the future of the Creator Economy.”
Cooperstein will give a main stage presentation about Creators.org, his burgeoning project to unite creators and industry professionals so they can collectively push for things like better platform revenue cuts and more explanation around account bans.
Other industry speakers making appearances include Rich Greenfield, general partner at LightShed Ventures; Meghan Lightcap, principal at Slow Ventures; Meridith Rojas, chief brand officer at Captiv8; and journalists Taylor Lorenz of The Washington Post...
VidCon’s industry track is a staple of the annual main convention in Anaheim, Calif., but VidCon Baltimore is putting even more focus on professionals: It’s bringing in industry speakers including Night president Ezra Cooperstein and Karat Financial co-founder Eric Wei, plus is hosting an industry leadership summit it says will be “an exclusive gathering of key stakeholders shaping the future of the Creator Economy.”
Cooperstein will give a main stage presentation about Creators.org, his burgeoning project to unite creators and industry professionals so they can collectively push for things like better platform revenue cuts and more explanation around account bans.
Other industry speakers making appearances include Rich Greenfield, general partner at LightShed Ventures; Meghan Lightcap, principal at Slow Ventures; Meridith Rojas, chief brand officer at Captiv8; and journalists Taylor Lorenz of The Washington Post...
- 8/17/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Elon Musk is summoning the masses to decide: Should he stay or should he go? On Sunday, the controversial Twitter CEO conducted a poll posing this question: “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.” By early Monday morning, more than 57 percent of voters had weighed in with a “Yes.”
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- 12/19/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
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Twitter temporarily banned the “free promotion” of specific third-party social media platforms through link sharing as well as social media link aggregators, the company announced Sunday, before walking back the policy that night.
“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,” the Twitter Support account tweeted out during the day. “Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.”
As of Sunday night, the tweet had been removed, and the status of the policy remains unclear.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817
Social platforms that were prohibited as of Sunday included Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel,...
Twitter temporarily banned the “free promotion” of specific third-party social media platforms through link sharing as well as social media link aggregators, the company announced Sunday, before walking back the policy that night.
“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,” the Twitter Support account tweeted out during the day. “Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.”
As of Sunday night, the tweet had been removed, and the status of the policy remains unclear.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817
Social platforms that were prohibited as of Sunday included Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel,...
- 12/18/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Controversial Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz says she has been suspended from Twitter upon order of its owner, Elon Musk.
Lorenz made the claim in a Substack post, adding that she did not and has not violated Twitter’s terms of service.
On Substack, Lorenz claimed she only had three tweets live on her account at the time of the suspension. One of them was a tweet sent to Musk.
Lorenz claimed she and colleague Drew Harwell (also banned by Musk earlier in the week) were “working on a story involving Musk and were hoping to get [a] comment from him.”
“When I went to log in and see if he had responded to our query, I was suspended,” Lorenz said in the Substack post. “I received zero communication from the company on why I was suspended or what terms I violated.”
“I have been on Twitter since 2010 and have run...
Lorenz made the claim in a Substack post, adding that she did not and has not violated Twitter’s terms of service.
On Substack, Lorenz claimed she only had three tweets live on her account at the time of the suspension. One of them was a tweet sent to Musk.
Lorenz claimed she and colleague Drew Harwell (also banned by Musk earlier in the week) were “working on a story involving Musk and were hoping to get [a] comment from him.”
“When I went to log in and see if he had responded to our query, I was suspended,” Lorenz said in the Substack post. “I received zero communication from the company on why I was suspended or what terms I violated.”
“I have been on Twitter since 2010 and have run...
- 12/18/2022
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Elon Musk, who just took over Twitter in a 44 billion leveraged buyout, sought to allay fears about the direction of the social media company by saying it is forming a content moderation council.
“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,” the billionaire entrepreneur tweeted. “No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”
Without further details beyond Musk’s brief statement, it is difficult to discern the exact nature of the new council’s role or what it may mean in terms of expectations that many notorious figures and their followers could be on their way back onto Twitter. Facebook, facing a storm of controversy in recent years over the content circulating on its network, created a similar body and promised it would function independently from the company’s management team.
Former President Donald Trump and a range of others, especially...
“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,” the billionaire entrepreneur tweeted. “No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”
Without further details beyond Musk’s brief statement, it is difficult to discern the exact nature of the new council’s role or what it may mean in terms of expectations that many notorious figures and their followers could be on their way back onto Twitter. Facebook, facing a storm of controversy in recent years over the content circulating on its network, created a similar body and promised it would function independently from the company’s management team.
Former President Donald Trump and a range of others, especially...
- 10/28/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The FBI has arrested a suspect in the bomb threat that was made at Boston Children’s Hospital last month, the agency announced on Thursday. Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, has been charged in a complaint with one count of “explosive materials – willfully making a false bomb threat.” Should she be convicted, the federal crime carries a prison sentence of up to five years.
In the days leading up to the arrest, right wing commentators including the Manhattan Institute’s Chris Rufo, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, and Chaya Raichik...
In the days leading up to the arrest, right wing commentators including the Manhattan Institute’s Chris Rufo, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, and Chaya Raichik...
- 9/15/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Joe Biden Warns That Donald Trump And Maga Extremism Threaten “The Very Foundations Of Our Republic”
Joe Biden’s speech in Philadelphia on Thursday evening was a full-blown attack on Donald Trump and Maga Republicans that “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.”
Despite White House suggestions that the address would not be political, it’s hard to not see how it would not be seen through a partisan lens, or that it even makes any difference.
Just as the midterms kick into high gear, Biden turned the attention on his 2020 rival, Trump, who, by endorsing candidates like Dr. Oz and Blake Masters, has given Democrats new hopes of avoiding a wipeout by highlighting their opponents’ weaknesses and wild statements.
Biden’s pitch was that, while he’s worked with plenty of Republicans when he was in the Senate and during his presidency, the driving force of the party is Trump, with an agenda of denying the results of free and fair elections and,...
Despite White House suggestions that the address would not be political, it’s hard to not see how it would not be seen through a partisan lens, or that it even makes any difference.
Just as the midterms kick into high gear, Biden turned the attention on his 2020 rival, Trump, who, by endorsing candidates like Dr. Oz and Blake Masters, has given Democrats new hopes of avoiding a wipeout by highlighting their opponents’ weaknesses and wild statements.
Biden’s pitch was that, while he’s worked with plenty of Republicans when he was in the Senate and during his presidency, the driving force of the party is Trump, with an agenda of denying the results of free and fair elections and,...
- 9/2/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Texas Republican Louie Gohmert has been in the news a lot this week — for instance, on Thursday he fumed because Democrats criticized the Republican party’s refusal to consider gun control, and then lied about the crime rates in blue states relative to red states.
But on Friday he reached a hilarious new height when, during an appearance on right wing media outlet Newsmax, he complained that Republicans aren’t allowed to just commit crimes.
Gohmert was on Newsmax to talk about the arrest of ex-Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of congress. Navarro had refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in front of the Jan. 6 commission and well, refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena is actually a crime.
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Washington Post Amends Taylor Lorenz Column After YouTubers Claim She Never Contacted Them
Gohmert of course objected to Navarro’s arrest, but not...
But on Friday he reached a hilarious new height when, during an appearance on right wing media outlet Newsmax, he complained that Republicans aren’t allowed to just commit crimes.
Gohmert was on Newsmax to talk about the arrest of ex-Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of congress. Navarro had refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in front of the Jan. 6 commission and well, refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena is actually a crime.
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Washington Post Amends Taylor Lorenz Column After YouTubers Claim She Never Contacted Them
Gohmert of course objected to Navarro’s arrest, but not...
- 6/4/2022
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
When a well-known reporter on the internet culture beat writes about a viral right-wing social media account, what’s the proper response? Well, if you’re a conservative on the internet, the best course of action is to get really upset and let everyone on Twitter know just how you’re feeling.
That’s the method a special segment of Twitter deployed Monday upon learning of Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz’s plans to publish a story about the wildly popular (and much maligned) Libs of TikTok — an openly bigoted...
That’s the method a special segment of Twitter deployed Monday upon learning of Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz’s plans to publish a story about the wildly popular (and much maligned) Libs of TikTok — an openly bigoted...
- 4/19/2022
- by Kat Bouza
- Rollingstone.com
Media coverage of TikTok often centers on parents being absolutely scared shitless of what their kids are doing on the app — from the Devious Licks trend, in which parents were warned that their children were destroying school property en masse, to National Shoot Up Your School Day, a baseless hoax that postulated TikTokers were telling children to avoid school on a certain day due to a prospective mass shooting event. Most of the time, there’s little evidence to support there’s any truth behind these “trends,” yet news outlets breathlessly report on them.
- 4/8/2022
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
The Architectural Digest celebrity house tour (or the “Ad house tour,” for those deeply attuned to the thrumming heart of popular culture) is not known for its emphasis on verisimilitude. Many of the videos appear to be highly staged, or at the very least, they are a master class in the aphorism, as extolled by the Countess Luann, that money can’t buy you class.
The first chink in Ad’s truth armor came in the midst of the pandemic, when Dakota Johnson extolled her love for decorative limes in her Ad house tour video,...
The first chink in Ad’s truth armor came in the midst of the pandemic, when Dakota Johnson extolled her love for decorative limes in her Ad house tour video,...
- 4/6/2022
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
“I suggested it as a joke, and then it actually happened,” deadpanned Kate McKinnon as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tonight. And yes, Saturday Night Live decided to literally rip tonight’s White House-set cold open from the headlines
Taking viewers behind closed Oval Office doors via the actual Ukraine war briefing meeting held on March 10 with TikTok influencers on Zoom that the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz unveiled, SNL tonight cut down the number of participants from the real-life 30 who were given top intelligence on the Russian invasion, but they added one Joe Biden.
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Portrayed in typical halting fashion by James Austin Johnson, the self-described “landline of Presidents” sought the aid of the influencers and “fresh ideas from you guys about how we can win the information war on social media,” as McKinnon’s pitch-perfect Psaki put it. Now, with...
Taking viewers behind closed Oval Office doors via the actual Ukraine war briefing meeting held on March 10 with TikTok influencers on Zoom that the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz unveiled, SNL tonight cut down the number of participants from the real-life 30 who were given top intelligence on the Russian invasion, but they added one Joe Biden.
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Portrayed in typical halting fashion by James Austin Johnson, the self-described “landline of Presidents” sought the aid of the influencers and “fresh ideas from you guys about how we can win the information war on social media,” as McKinnon’s pitch-perfect Psaki put it. Now, with...
- 3/13/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Snapchat announced on November 23, 2020 that it would start giving away $1 million a day to “top” creators participating in ‘Spotlight’ – a new public product inside of the Snapchat app that’s essentially a clone of TikTok’s ‘For You Page’, featuring algorithmically-driven (but also editorially-approved) short-form videos.
Snapchat users proactively opt-in to Spotlight, sending select uploads to the section of the app in the hopes of entertaining a massive audience and reaping some financial benefit. Users then get paid according to the watchtime (and a variety of other metrics the company isn’t revealing) their short videos produced.
60 days into the giveaway/sweepstakes/lotto/marketing plan and the company’s minted a handful of young millionaires in a matter of weeks. Taylor Lorenz at the New York Times has an excellent story where she profiles a few of them - the most notable being TikToker-turned-Snapchater Cam Cassey. The enterprising 19-year-old started...
Snapchat users proactively opt-in to Spotlight, sending select uploads to the section of the app in the hopes of entertaining a massive audience and reaping some financial benefit. Users then get paid according to the watchtime (and a variety of other metrics the company isn’t revealing) their short videos produced.
60 days into the giveaway/sweepstakes/lotto/marketing plan and the company’s minted a handful of young millionaires in a matter of weeks. Taylor Lorenz at the New York Times has an excellent story where she profiles a few of them - the most notable being TikToker-turned-Snapchater Cam Cassey. The enterprising 19-year-old started...
- 2/7/2022
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
“Hype House,” a new reality soap series on Netflix, opens with a very fair question. “My whole goal with this house in the first place,” states Thomas Petrou, “was, why can’t people who hit millions of other people be as famous as A-list celebrities?”
The house in question is one shared by TikTok stars, whose work and whose interpersonal conflicts make up the storyline of “Hype House.” These young people reside in a Los Angeles-area mansion that become notorious via New York Times reporting by Taylor Lorenz. Whereas in the old “Real World” mansion, simply living in an extravagantly emotional way was the job, this reality show features people in an endless work-from-home cycle. They use the house to create content — video clips measured by the attention they elicit. (To wit: Petrou is introduced with us with a chyron next to his name indicating that he has 8.1 million followers.
The house in question is one shared by TikTok stars, whose work and whose interpersonal conflicts make up the storyline of “Hype House.” These young people reside in a Los Angeles-area mansion that become notorious via New York Times reporting by Taylor Lorenz. Whereas in the old “Real World” mansion, simply living in an extravagantly emotional way was the job, this reality show features people in an endless work-from-home cycle. They use the house to create content — video clips measured by the attention they elicit. (To wit: Petrou is introduced with us with a chyron next to his name indicating that he has 8.1 million followers.
- 1/6/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Snapchat announced on November 23, 2020 that it would start giving away $1 million a day to “top” creators participating in ‘Spotlight’ – a new public product inside of the Snapchat app that’s essentially a clone of TikTok’s ‘For You Page’, featuring algorithmically-driven (but also editorially-approved) short-form videos.
Snapchat users proactively opt-in to Spotlight, sending select uploads to the section of the app in the hopes of entertaining a massive audience and reaping some financial benefit. Users then get paid according to the watchtime (and a variety of other metrics the company isn’t revealing) their short videos produced.
60 days into the giveaway/sweepstakes/lotto/marketing plan and the company’s minted a handful of young millionaires in a matter of weeks. Taylor Lorenz at the New York Times has an excellent story where she profiles a few of them - the most notable being TikToker-turned-Snapchater Cam Cassey. The enterprising 19-year-old started...
Snapchat users proactively opt-in to Spotlight, sending select uploads to the section of the app in the hopes of entertaining a massive audience and reaping some financial benefit. Users then get paid according to the watchtime (and a variety of other metrics the company isn’t revealing) their short videos produced.
60 days into the giveaway/sweepstakes/lotto/marketing plan and the company’s minted a handful of young millionaires in a matter of weeks. Taylor Lorenz at the New York Times has an excellent story where she profiles a few of them - the most notable being TikToker-turned-Snapchater Cam Cassey. The enterprising 19-year-old started...
- 6/10/2021
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Millennials have it rough. We’re underemployed. We’re overworked. We constantly have to live with the specter of betrayal from our generational heroes: Jk Rowling’s conversion to TERFdom, for instance, or the realization that Barack Obama was not nearly as cool as we thought. We can’t replicate Jules’s eye makeup from Euphoria, no matter how many goddamn tutorials we watch. We’re too young to have witnessed Johnny Depp’s pre-Pirates physical peak, but too old to lust after Timothee Chalamet without feeling creepy. And on top of all of that,...
- 4/30/2021
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Updated, with Fox News statement: The New York Times called out Tucker Carlson for a segment in which he mocked and attacked one of its tech reporters, Taylor Lorenz, for a tweet she send on International Women’s Day.
In a statement, the Times said, “In a now familiar move, Tucker Carlson opened his show last night by attacking a journalist. It was a calculated and cruel tactic, which he often deploys to unleash a wave of harassment and vitriol at his intended target. Taylor Lorenz is a talented New York Times journalist doing timely and essential reporting. Journalists should be able to do their jobs without facing harassment.”
Lorenz had tweeted on Monday about online harassment, writing, “For international women’s day please consider supporting women enduring online harassment. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the harassment and smear campaign I’ve had to endure over the...
In a statement, the Times said, “In a now familiar move, Tucker Carlson opened his show last night by attacking a journalist. It was a calculated and cruel tactic, which he often deploys to unleash a wave of harassment and vitriol at his intended target. Taylor Lorenz is a talented New York Times journalist doing timely and essential reporting. Journalists should be able to do their jobs without facing harassment.”
Lorenz had tweeted on Monday about online harassment, writing, “For international women’s day please consider supporting women enduring online harassment. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the harassment and smear campaign I’ve had to endure over the...
- 3/10/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The New York Times responded Wednesday to Tucker Carlson one day after the Fox News host targeted reporter Taylor Lorenz during his primetime show.
“In a now familiar move, Tucker Carlson opened his show last night by attacking a journalist,” said a statement from the paper’s communications team. “It was a calculated and cruel tactic, which he regularly deploys to unleash a wave of harassment and vitriol at his intended target.”
The statement, posted to Twitter, went on, “Taylor Lorenz is a talented New York Times journalist doing timely and essential reporting. Journalists should be able to do their jobs without facing harassment.”
A Fox News spokesperson said in response that “no public figure or journalist is immune to legitimate criticism of their reporting, claims or journalistic tactics.”
On the Tuesday episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host repeatedly slammed Lorenz by name as he ripped into a social-media...
“In a now familiar move, Tucker Carlson opened his show last night by attacking a journalist,” said a statement from the paper’s communications team. “It was a calculated and cruel tactic, which he regularly deploys to unleash a wave of harassment and vitriol at his intended target.”
The statement, posted to Twitter, went on, “Taylor Lorenz is a talented New York Times journalist doing timely and essential reporting. Journalists should be able to do their jobs without facing harassment.”
A Fox News spokesperson said in response that “no public figure or journalist is immune to legitimate criticism of their reporting, claims or journalistic tactics.”
On the Tuesday episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host repeatedly slammed Lorenz by name as he ripped into a social-media...
- 3/10/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, two techies started a new social network built around an increasingly unloved feature of people’s iPhones: actually talking into it. The app, called Clubhouse, was at first niche. There are no posts, no pictures, no videos. As if to underline how little time you need to look at it, the home screen is a white-on-beige endless scroll of conference calls, called “rooms,” filled with people you might not know organized around topics like police brutality, music, sex, or whatever else was on people’s minds.
- 2/16/2021
- by Kevin T. Dugan
- Rollingstone.com
In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friend-of-the-podcast Glenn Greenwald.
Matt and Katie cover Neera Tanden’s contentious confirmation hearing to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Omb). Our hosts break down the exhaustive GOP questioning of Tanden, in which lawmakers notably cited troves of her old, shit-talking tweets, many of which were aimed at Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters. This included a debate around the phrase “ignorant slut.”
“You just had...
Matt and Katie cover Neera Tanden’s contentious confirmation hearing to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Omb). Our hosts break down the exhaustive GOP questioning of Tanden, in which lawmakers notably cited troves of her old, shit-talking tweets, many of which were aimed at Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters. This included a debate around the phrase “ignorant slut.”
“You just had...
- 2/12/2021
- by Reed Dunlea and Daniel Halperin
- Rollingstone.com
Snapchat announced on November 23, 2020 that it would start giving away $1 million a day to “top” creators participating in ‘Spotlight’ – a new public product inside of the Snapchat app that’s essentially a clone of TikTok’s ‘For You Page’, featuring algorithmically-driven (but also editorially-approved) short-form videos.
Snapchat users proactively opt-in to Spotlight, sending select uploads to the section of the app in the hopes of entertaining a massive audience and reaping some financial benefit. Users then get paid according to the watchtime (and a variety of other metrics the company isn’t revealing) their short videos produced.
60 days into the giveaway/sweepstakes/lotto/marketing plan and the company’s minted a handful of young millionaires in a matter of weeks. Taylor Lorenz at the New York Times has an excellent story where she profiles a few of them - the most notable being TikToker-turned-Snapchater Cam Cassey. The enterprising 19-year-old started...
Snapchat users proactively opt-in to Spotlight, sending select uploads to the section of the app in the hopes of entertaining a massive audience and reaping some financial benefit. Users then get paid according to the watchtime (and a variety of other metrics the company isn’t revealing) their short videos produced.
60 days into the giveaway/sweepstakes/lotto/marketing plan and the company’s minted a handful of young millionaires in a matter of weeks. Taylor Lorenz at the New York Times has an excellent story where she profiles a few of them - the most notable being TikToker-turned-Snapchater Cam Cassey. The enterprising 19-year-old started...
- 1/22/2021
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
HBO has released the trailer and premiere date for its upcoming documentary “Fake Famous,” which explores the world of social media influencers by turning nobodies into internet-famous somebodies.
Directed and produced by tech journalist Nick Bilton, the documentary follows three Angelenos — aspiring actress Dominique, fashion designer Chris and real estate assistant Wylie — who attempt to become influencers by purchasing fake followers and bots to boost engagement on their posts.
According to HBO, “the newly made influencers discover both the wonders and costs of this unlikely, immersive lifestyle.”
The documentary also features interviews with New York Times technology reporter Taylor Lorenz, Liz Eswein of the hugely popular @newyorkcity Instagram account, Bloomberg technology reporter Sarah Frier and Justine Bateman, author of “Fame: The Hijacking of Reality.”
“Fake Famous” premieres Tuesday, Feb. 2 on HBO and HBO Max.
It is produced by HBO Documentary Films in association with Consolidated Documentaries Bilton is writer, director and producer.
Directed and produced by tech journalist Nick Bilton, the documentary follows three Angelenos — aspiring actress Dominique, fashion designer Chris and real estate assistant Wylie — who attempt to become influencers by purchasing fake followers and bots to boost engagement on their posts.
According to HBO, “the newly made influencers discover both the wonders and costs of this unlikely, immersive lifestyle.”
The documentary also features interviews with New York Times technology reporter Taylor Lorenz, Liz Eswein of the hugely popular @newyorkcity Instagram account, Bloomberg technology reporter Sarah Frier and Justine Bateman, author of “Fame: The Hijacking of Reality.”
“Fake Famous” premieres Tuesday, Feb. 2 on HBO and HBO Max.
It is produced by HBO Documentary Films in association with Consolidated Documentaries Bilton is writer, director and producer.
- 1/21/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
The onslaught of bad news for TikTok continued this afternoon, as massive e-tailer Amazon instructed employees that they have by day’s end to delete the micro-video app from any mobile devices that are also used to access their work email.
Amazon made the announcement in a corporate email first obtained by The New York Times’ Taylor Lorenz -- with the caveat that Amazon employees are still permitted to access the app from the company laptop browsers. “Due to security risks, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email,” the company wrote. "If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by July 10 to retain mobile access to Amazon email. At this time, using TikTok from your Amazon laptop browser is allowed.”
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Amazon made the announcement in a corporate email first obtained by The New York Times’ Taylor Lorenz -- with the caveat that Amazon employees are still permitted to access the app from the company laptop browsers. “Due to security risks, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email,” the company wrote. "If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by July 10 to retain mobile access to Amazon email. At this time, using TikTok from your Amazon laptop browser is allowed.”
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- 7/10/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Update 5:20 Pm Claudia Conway’s Twitter account has been “padlocked.” The account is now private and accessible only to followers. Some of the tweets referenced below appear to have been deleted.
Previous Fifteen-year-old Claudia Conway, daughter of Kellyanne Conway and conservative anti-Trumper George Conway, might have just made the holiday weekend a bit tense in the family home: After dad George tweeted to journalists to “desist” from communication with his minor children, the newly outspoken Claudia responded, ‘you’re just mad that i’m finally getting my voice heard.”
Then her kicker: “sorry your marriage failed.”
The response was soon hidden, apparently by George Conway. Though he has recently warned followers about fake accounts pretending to be his daughter, this exchange appears to be the real thing.
Claudia Conway has just recently become outspoken on social media – TikTok, Twitter – and seems just as resistant to controversy as her mom,...
Previous Fifteen-year-old Claudia Conway, daughter of Kellyanne Conway and conservative anti-Trumper George Conway, might have just made the holiday weekend a bit tense in the family home: After dad George tweeted to journalists to “desist” from communication with his minor children, the newly outspoken Claudia responded, ‘you’re just mad that i’m finally getting my voice heard.”
Then her kicker: “sorry your marriage failed.”
The response was soon hidden, apparently by George Conway. Though he has recently warned followers about fake accounts pretending to be his daughter, this exchange appears to be the real thing.
Claudia Conway has just recently become outspoken on social media – TikTok, Twitter – and seems just as resistant to controversy as her mom,...
- 7/3/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
YouTube personality Jake Paul is receiving tons of backlash after video footage of him among a group of people in an Arizona mall while it was being looted after a protest surfaced. Even so, Paul claims that he was not looting or vandalizing.
Paul sent out a statement on his social media platforms in an attempt to explain himself. “To be absolutely clear, neither I nor anyone in our group was engaged in any looting or vandalism,” he said. “For context, we spent the day doing our part to peacefully protest one of the most horrific injustices our country has ever seen, which led to us being tear-gassed for filming the events and brutality that were unfolding in Arizona.”
He went on to say that he and his group were gassed and they were “strictly documenting” every neighborhood they traveled through. He added, “I do not condone violence, looting, or breaking the law.
Paul sent out a statement on his social media platforms in an attempt to explain himself. “To be absolutely clear, neither I nor anyone in our group was engaged in any looting or vandalism,” he said. “For context, we spent the day doing our part to peacefully protest one of the most horrific injustices our country has ever seen, which led to us being tear-gassed for filming the events and brutality that were unfolding in Arizona.”
He went on to say that he and his group were gassed and they were “strictly documenting” every neighborhood they traveled through. He added, “I do not condone violence, looting, or breaking the law.
- 5/31/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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