Tom Scocca

@tomscocca

This Twitter is about the Machines.

Joined June 2009

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  2. Attn: corrections/clarifications desk

  3. on top of everything else

  4. Gawker will be shuttered, and at least two principals bankrupted, by an award with a roughly 0% chance of surviving on appeal.

  5. fwiw the story of mine i like the most & feel best about happened bc of & &

  6. One argument for Gawker is that all those alums writing all those mealy-mouthed "to be sure"s never wrote like that when they were there.

  7. It's striking how "unkind commentary about plutocrats" keeps appearing in the bill of indictment

  8. Pretty confident our lawyers would have vetted and flagged this inflammatory claim presented without rebuttal.

  9. Just tweeting this to see if it clears away the frozen tweet-writing box in this browser.

  10. Thought someone was coming down Fifth Avenue with a protest banner but it was just a big Marimekko shopping bag.

  11. This is what stinks about being the target of an actual conspiracy: people can't grasp that the frames they've been using are false.

  12. This "huge and catastrophic risk" narrative is the lie that Peter Thiel built and sustained through his covert ops.

  13. 6. So what you have here is, quite literally, un-marked *sponsored content*. This is a PR/press release passed off as a piece of journalism.

  14. 4. This is interesting because in an article ostensibly about Ethics in Journalism, the NYT permits unattributed ghost writing.

  15. 1. Regardless your position on speech, Gawker, or Peter Thiel, here's what I know for sure. Thiel didn't write this:

  16. Let's see, why might you be confused by a publication with an underlying money-making business model?

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