“Over the last four years dozens of people involved in illicit activities have been arrested after Fanpage investigations and numerous politicians have resigned. The site continues to turn a profit and has opened newsrooms in Rome and Milan.”

“The first few months of 2021 had been particularly busy for high-profile media moves. The same has been true of the first few days of 2022.”

“The goal is to further divide people, but divide them by making them feel they’re part of a group,” said Sam Woolley, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin who also serves as the project director for propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement.

“‘Underground content thrives in the underground media, and underground media is strengthened by staying a little bit secretive from prying eyes that might assume bad faith, or even be law enforcement,’ said Michelle Lhooq, previously an editor at Vice’s defunct electronic music site Thump, who started her largely paywalled counterculture newsletter Rave New World at the beginning of the pandemic.”

“Players paste the Wordle game on social media, which has filled Facebook and Twitter timelines with a sea of green and yellow squares. In the game, when a guess is made, the color of tiles change to show you how close you are to the secret word. If you guess ‘weary,’ as the instructions say, and the ‘W’ turns green, the secret word starts with a W. If the E turns yellow, the letter is in the word, but is in the wrong spot. Letters that turn gray aren’t in the word.”

“In its own statement to members, sent Monday night, the Washington Post Guild condemned Montgomery’s tweet as ‘unacceptable, irresponsible, and harmful.’”

“The reporter, Jeffrey Moyo, has been accused of helping two Times journalists enter Zimbabwe from South Africa using bogus credentials, a charge that even the government admits is on ‘shaky ground.’”

“Spotify declined to comment. In a note to Spotify staff obtained by The Verge, however, Julie McNamara, head of US studios and video, acknowledged the layoffs and said shutting the studio down would enable the company to ‘move faster and make more significant progress and facilitate more effective collaboration across our organization.’”

“The initial collection will be released over a period of weeks beginning Jan. 31. NFTs will range from space, climate, war and other images to spotlights on the work of specific AP photographers.”

“Thirteen women have sued the Florida-based network for gender discrimination, accusing the company of unequal pay for female employees and a workplace culture that forced them ‘to conform to sexist or misogynistic stereotypes about how women are supposed to behave.’”

“While the city’s media have seen brutal job cuts in recent years, including a dramatic downsizing at the Chicago Tribune, a sense of rebirth and optimism prevails.”

“Trying to say, ‘Hey, we’re going to get the protection of the media here, and how dare you raid our newsroom? But we’re going to go and try to get a prior restraint against the media?’ It just doesn’t seem to me to be very principled.”

“…Starting Jan. 24, he will have his own 7 p.m. program, ‘Jesse Watters Primetime,’ which will serve as the lead-in to Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, the highest-rated evening block on cable news.”

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None of the 10 most popular podcasts in the U.S. last year debuted in the last couple years. They are an average of more than 7 years old, and three of the top five are more than a decade old. (Think: “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “This American Life” and “Stuff You Should Know.”)