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#HoldTheLine. Ask, think, translate tech/media strategy (subs, ads, video, monopolies, privacy, press freedom, trust) for @dcnorg.bsky.social to advance future of trusted news and entertainment. @jason_kint on X, 20yrs leading major sports sites
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One ask from me. It’s important to share good reports, trusted journalism, even your competition (I saw WSJ report thanks to CNN reporter). Bad actors won’t hesitate to share toxic sludge which other platforms don’t seem to mind on top of X’s suppressing of news links. /5 /eof
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Turning to the NYT reporter on the incredible amount of disinformation of fake images, conspiracy theories being amplified on here. Good work, important using a ❌ noting it. /4 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
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WSJ separating out cases of targeting groups who have not committed crimes but even noting here incredible resources being used against what appears to be clear, First Amendment protected activity alerted the community. Here is the must-read report. /3 www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
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This statement. “We came to the United States for protection of what we encountered in Russia. It seems that we are encountering here what we fled.” /2
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I can only see one angle. There were other press on the scene, other cameras on the scene, and a 1st person witness reporting team. I thought better to let them add context as i really don't have much beyond what I see with my eyes in the frame.
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2/ In case folks aren't aware. As of several hours after Trump's social media post, the National Guard had not been deployed in city of LA.
Mayor Bass:
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Here is a thread on the matter. Also pleased to see DCN's amicus brief was granted. bsky.app/profile/kint...
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2) there were no fruits for Google except freedom of more competition. Again, Google trying to limit remediates to not include fruits or forward looking (including AI) which is what this is all about. Resumes again at 1:30pm. Bye. /7
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Probably the two most ridiculous arguments from Google that I think hurts cred w Court: 1) EU choice screens are best proxy for equal footing (again negates much of Court’s findings to merely access points. /6
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Google has argued that AI companies (see OpenAI) are “doing just fine” without access to Google’s query and click data for grounding. I think this overlooks the point that they’re crawling (arguably stealing) it through scraping as Google originally did. /5
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On AI, Google is attempting to frame it merely as another access point to search but the court gets that the fruits and secret sauce underneath Google’s dominance are the query and click data, the scale, and the connection to AI as Google will be able to have better grounding / RAG. /4
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Google attempted to bring back up their narrative from liabilities trial which argues Google search is the best search engine and basically Apple, Verizon, DuckDuckGo would have made same decisions regardless. But Mehta is long past that point. /3
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Main legal debate continues to be Google’s attempt to limit remedies to ending the conduct in the case. Judge Mehta already signaled this morning if that’s what was needed, they could have been done a long time ago. Of course, it’s not. And Google’s weak arguments weren’t convincing. /2
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I don't know if you'll watch it. But if you have 20 minutes, I do highly recommend. Or at least share so maybe others will take the time. His remarks touch all, his decades of work telling truth gives him the gravitas, with humility, to deliver them... 5/5 www.youtube.com/live/FcWa-wX...
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“Without fear. That doesn’t mean there is nothing to be afraid of. It’s an affirmation. That you know who you are. You know what you stand for. And you know that in the end, the Constitution will defend you. Even in the face of fearsome times." - Scott Pelley 4/5
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means telling someone something that they don’t want to hear. I fear there may be some people in the audience who don’t want to hear what I have to say today but I appreciate your forbearance in this small act of liberty.” - Scott Pelley 3/5
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Disclosure: I'm a 60 Minutes fan. In fact, I read Don Hewitt's "Tell Me a Story" after nearly a decade in sports media and it likely tipped the scale in 2007 when I decided to jump to work at CBS. I find Pelley and team brilliant in telling stories in barely 15 min segments. 2/5
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Only partially kidding. Anyone whose run a very large web operation knows confidence and arrogance can be your enemy. Paranoia and redundancy are your friends. It’s a delicate operation, and rather simple, low risk compared to some of the stuff underneath our federal government.
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Interesting update by Bloomberg.
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US v Google in Virginia showed a Court doesn't need evidence repeated to it over and over in the trial. And as I mentioned, there is a lot of noise in the press on this one particularly around the roles of TikTok and YouTube. Optimistic on this case still. Important. /13
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Again, this all assumes that PSNs is the relevant antitrust market and the Court agrees with the FTC. My belief is that they will agree. But Tuesday rebuttal will be important along with nailing home the closing arguments and post-trial briefs. /12
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Same thing happened with Instagram. So back to that question - what would have happened in these two areas if the two largest PSNs were in competition with each other? How would they have treated your personal data? Their ad loads? /11
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And then speaking to the hearts of its users, there is evidence showing how Facebook increased the advertising load on its feed for its most valuable users (North America) by nearly 4x. This and privacy are part of the quality dimension of competition when it's a free app. /10
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I mean there are over $6 billion in record settlements with regulators and private litigants for data privacy abuses by Facebook. I mean Facebook buried evidence for years of how it allowed access to users' personal data by developers in China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc. /9
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The other overwhelming evidence (in courts around the globe and public domain) is Facebook has been an incredibly awful service for the world...without harming its growth and/or ads business. This is the argument its monopoly power allowed it to avoid competing on quality. /8
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And WhatsApp certainly would have expanded into personal social networking services in the US using WeChat's roadmap in China. Acquiring both apps allowed Facebook to control their roadmaps. Not shut them down but make sure they didn't cross any lines of risk for Facebook. /7
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I've been on record for years since Facebook's brand and reputation went down toilet in 2017/2018 that Instagram would have acted differently if it was competing with Facebook rather than in the same family. Frankly, Instagram would have put its foot on Facebook's throat. /6
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So then comes question of whether acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp harmed competition. Again, a lot of noise in evidence attempting to show how Facebook helped both apps (infrastructure, security, ad platform). But Zuckerberg's emails on strategy in buying them were damning. /5
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I saw NYT's coverage last night basically relaying Facebook's defense which has tried to use media formats, features and ad market analysis to confuse or dispute the relevant market. It's all noise. The same as Google arguing its search engine competed with Amazon. They lost. /4
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FTC defined the market as Personal Social Networking Services anchored to friends and family sharing. They've pounded this home with internal docs, experts, research (including data showing dominance in DAU, MAU and time spent). Only a matter of whether Judge Boasberg agrees. /3
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and (2) did Facebook's acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp harm competition in that market. That's it. So on (1), yes TikTok, YouTube and arguably all of media "compete" with Facebook on ad sales and consumer attention but that's not how relevant markets work in antitrust law. /2