“Mr. Trump’s prediction that he would be indicted, which he posted to Truth Social on March 18, drove nearly 400,000 visits from the United States to the fledgling social media website that day, the company found. The site has averaged about 200,000 visits from the United States each day since March 1, 2022.”

“[John Honovich] wrote up an article about Hikvision’s ethnicity-detection technology, including the video, screenshots, and a no-comment from the company, and posted it on the website of IPVM, the trade publication he had founded.”

“Viewers were subjected to shaky camerawork, wild speculation and decidedly info-free updates. So business as usual for a rolling news channel, then.”

“While we are reaching the limits of the era of social networks, there is so much rich territory to explore with subscription networks.”

At least 120 journalists, politicians, and activists have been blocked by Twitter, including the Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh, the Canadian poet Rupi Kaur, and the BBC’s Punjabi bureau.

Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems have said they also want to question Abby Grossberg, a fired Fox News producer now suing the network.

“In December I began posting to Twitter only as a kind of RSS feed, re-sharing my Mastodon posts about new newsletter editions and podcasts, hoping that others would join me. To date, few have.”

“The most powerful fact: Censorship isn’t popular.”

“On YouTube — the most important medium these days for Russians looking for alternatives to Kremlin propaganda — Russian journalists who themselves had suffered from Mr. Putin’s suppression of press freedom spoke of their shock about Evan’s arrest. ‘This will make the picture of Russia foggier still … Right now, foreign journalists are the main source of information about what is happening on the ground.'”

Brower’s consolidation of Maine’s newspaper industry has drawn national attention. (He owns every daily newspaper in the state, aside from the Bangor Daily News.) He told staff: “The truth is I am beginning the search for what’s next, whether that be a new steward or perhaps partners willing to join me in carrying the torch. We are watching new ownership models emerge across the country from B-corporations to non-profit efforts.”