Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media

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Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media

You might recall that when political news website Semafor entered the media industry on the back of $25 million in private money, they made all kinds of promises about how they were somehow going t…

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SAF : Air France-KLM met la pression

https://vid.freedif.org/w/wpXTBFhQuADpSFN6m4Ff5G

SAF : Air France-KLM met la pression

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Celeb Traitors feature in best new Christmas jokes poll

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-celeb-traitors-36400093

"The group chats are 'the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion', wrote one of their key organizers, Sriram Krishnan, a former partner in the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (typically styled a16z) who is now the White House senior policy adviser for AI."

#BenSmith, 2025

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

There are so many layers of horror in this that I don't know where to start.

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#HatTip to @cdarwin for the link.

The group chats that changed America

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

Tekorten dwingen Air France-KLM tot duurdere vliegtuigreparaties

PARIJS - Air France-KLM verliest veel geld door problemen in de toeleveringsketens voor vliegtuigonderdelen. Dat zegt topman Ben Smith op een evenement van de luchtvaartmaatschappij in Parijs. "We moeten vliegtuigen aan de grond houden of we moeten meer geld besteden aan reparaties, dat is erg frustrerend." De luchtvaartindustrie kampt sinds de coronacrisis met leveringsproblemen. Doordat...

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Air France-KLM: geen geld apart gezet voor onwettige coronasteun

PARIJS - Air France-KLM heeft vooralsnog geen voorziening getroffen voor de miljarden aan coronastaatssteun die het luchtvaartconcern onterecht heeft ontvangen. Dat meldde topman Ben Smith in een toelichting op de jaarcijfers. Het gaat om s

Ozy
Sues Ben Smith
Ideas stolen, secrets lost,
Concealment of corporate crime
Fraudulent theft in time

#ozy #bensmith #buzzfeed #corporatecrime #fraud #cinquain #poetry

http://www.businessinsider.com/ozy-sues-ben-smith-buzzfeed-claiming-trade-theft-semafor-2023-12

Ozy sues Ben Smith and BuzzFeed, claiming media exec stole trade secrets for Semafor

The former BuzzFeed News editor in chief killed Ozy in a series of New York Times articles only to steal its ideas for Semafor, the lawsuit claims.

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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti, Gawker’s Nick Denton, Semafor’s Ben Smith discuss digital media

A conversation with two digital media pioneers — and Ben Smith, whose new book Traffic chronicles their rise and fall

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