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As someone who has run an actual non-ridiculous independent media operation for over two decades which has lost multiple sponsors due to our public "we're against fascism" stance... to hear that Weiss might get $200 million for basically justifying and whitewashing fascism... is... frustrating.
FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM
July 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt
The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due
The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due
Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data
It's an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
www.reuters.com
May 28, 2026 at 12:52 PM
I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt
The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due
The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due
For reasons that baffle me, this man continues to enjoy unearned credibility from most media. But @mmasnick.bsky.social at Techdirt gets it right.
April 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
For reasons that baffle me, this man continues to enjoy unearned credibility from most media. But @mmasnick.bsky.social at Techdirt gets it right.
Yup. It's Techdirt, not TechDirt, but no one ever believes.
Ah, the classic Techdirt problem. @mmasnick.bsky.social has fought this war for years without obtaining any permanent victories.
November 16, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Yup. It's Techdirt, not TechDirt, but no one ever believes.
techdirt outdoes the big dailies again
Cowardly Disney Caves To Brendan Carr’s Bogus Censorial Threats, Pulling Jimmy Kimmel
There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments that Kimmel made about Charlie…
There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments that Kimmel made about Charlie…
Cowardly Disney Caves To Brendan Carr’s Bogus Censorial Threats, Pulling Jimmy Kimmel
There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments that Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk. But that leads most people to assume that Kimmel said something unkind about Kirk or in some way celebrated his death. But he did not. You can see the segment here (assuming Disney doesn’t pull it):
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September 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
techdirt outdoes the big dailies again
I have received letters demanding that Techdirt fire me. Those are fun.
When the alt-right took a run at me, they were BIG MAD that I didn't have a job for them to cost me. People were sending complaints about me to Bungie and to Pokémon for fuck's sake.
April 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM
I have received letters demanding that Techdirt fire me. Those are fun.
During an era of failing traditional media, TechDirt is absolutely killing it covering, explaining, contextualizing what is happening. Not a surprise if you’ve read them for a while.
If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…
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February 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
During an era of failing traditional media, TechDirt is absolutely killing it covering, explaining, contextualizing what is happening. Not a surprise if you’ve read them for a while.
Read Techdirt! :-)
January 12, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Read Techdirt! :-)
Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case.
www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/
www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case.
www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/
www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/
There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt.
it's my absolute favorite holiday of the year when the entire U.S. news industry turns itself into a giant blogspam affiliate for a single massive billionaire-owned retailer
with absolutely nobody in any position of editorial authority thinking that's in any way unethical or gross
with absolutely nobody in any position of editorial authority thinking that's in any way unethical or gross
July 16, 2024 at 4:20 PM
There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt.
I wrote about how someone went around trying to convince security companies that Techdirt was a phishing/malware site. And how it worked (briefly). Also works as a reminder about the impossibility of trust & safety work www.techdirt.com/2024/12/12/a...
Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified As Phishing Site, Proving Masnick’s Impossibility Law Once Again
Here on Techdirt, we write a lot about content moderation and even did a whole big series of content moderation case studies. However, here’s an interesting one that involves Techdirt itself …
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December 12, 2024 at 6:42 PM
I wrote about how someone went around trying to convince security companies that Techdirt was a phishing/malware site. And how it worked (briefly). Also works as a reminder about the impossibility of trust & safety work www.techdirt.com/2024/12/12/a...
Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate:
Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC.
(Feel free to add others in replies)
Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC.
(Feel free to add others in replies)
March 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate:
Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC.
(Feel free to add others in replies)
Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC.
(Feel free to add others in replies)
"techdirt has made me a hateful person!"
May 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"techdirt has made me a hateful person!"
Lol. "TechDirt recently described him as a “Lebron James/Michael Jordan”-level legal thinker."
Meta's top lawyer on AI will no longer be defending the company due to Zuckerberg's decent into "neo-Nazi madness."
"Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with."
Exclusive w/ WIRED:
"Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with."
Exclusive w/ WIRED:
‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield.
www.wired.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Lol. "TechDirt recently described him as a “Lebron James/Michael Jordan”-level legal thinker."
November 4, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Wired is killing it, as are other tech sites, like The Verge and Techdirt.
February 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Wired is killing it, as are other tech sites, like The Verge and Techdirt.
What’s up with the description of techdirt?
December 3, 2024 at 11:36 PM
What’s up with the description of techdirt?
It's kind of amazing. A regular Techdirt troll made a comment almost exactly along these lines late last week. And I keep seeing that. Techdirt troll makes batshit crazy argument... that then shows up later in a Trump DOJ court filing.
The Justice Department says Trump derives his authority to deport migrants without due process from “Article II and the mandate of the electorate,” so it has no obligation to provide further details of the operation to Boasberg.
“Trump won the election so everything he does is legal,” in DOJ speak.
“Trump won the election so everything he does is legal,” in DOJ speak.
Hooooo boy: "The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It's kind of amazing. A regular Techdirt troll made a comment almost exactly along these lines late last week. And I keep seeing that. Techdirt troll makes batshit crazy argument... that then shows up later in a Trump DOJ court filing.
So I don't check my analytics that much, but this is the first time I've noticed that Bluesky topped the list of referrers to Techdirt (for non-search based traffic, Google still sent a lot more).
November 19, 2024 at 5:22 AM
So I don't check my analytics that much, but this is the first time I've noticed that Bluesky topped the list of referrers to Techdirt (for non-search based traffic, Google still sent a lot more).
Hi hello. www.techdirt.com/support/
Not only would we never go to such nonsense we've had @karlbode.com mocking it.
Not only would we never go to such nonsense we've had @karlbode.com mocking it.
April 25, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Hi hello. www.techdirt.com/support/
Not only would we never go to such nonsense we've had @karlbode.com mocking it.
Not only would we never go to such nonsense we've had @karlbode.com mocking it.
I have joked that part of the point of Techdirt is as a commitment device to guarantee I can never run for any office. But I've written 52,589 articles (and counting) on Techdirt and imagine the poor fools who would be tasked with reading them all if I did...
Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt.
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
July 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I have joked that part of the point of Techdirt is as a commitment device to guarantee I can never run for any office. But I've written 52,589 articles (and counting) on Techdirt and imagine the poor fools who would be tasked with reading them all if I did...
Kid is now feeding Techdirt articles into the AI checker in order to accuse me of using AI (having some fun with it all now...)
September 1, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Kid is now feeding Techdirt articles into the AI checker in order to accuse me of using AI (having some fun with it all now...)
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Gotta love the spammer who leaves in the ChatGPT response saying that it's coming up with a "professional, non-spammy" spam (which our spam filter correctly caught as spam).
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Gotta love the spammer who leaves in the ChatGPT response saying that it's coming up with a "professional, non-spammy" spam (which our spam filter correctly caught as spam).