Scott Nover
@ScottNover
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Freelance journalist covering media and tech. @Slate contributing writer, @GZEROMedia AI newsletter, @Every contributing editor. @smpagwu journalism professor
Alexandria, VA
Joined July 2013
Earlier this year, Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law, legalizing absolutely ginormous bottles of wine—up to 15 liters. For @slate, I investigated what these oversized bottles are for and why they were illegal in the first place.
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the people who want to ban tiktok would think differently if they followed my favorite account, which is called @unclogging_drains
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“Please send all the child porn here, thank you” - Elon Musk, the smartest man alive
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Car executive wants you to commute.
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Imagine thinking that the political right has stayed constant since 2008.
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random dude on twitter: the jews did 9/11.elon musk: Interesting. Looking into this.
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My entire Twitter feed is Elon Musk commenting "This is crazy" and quote tweeting something that a fourth-grader should be able to tell is made up.
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The presidential campaign is quoting dril now. The vibe shift is here.
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I have never seen a happy media union statement before.
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I don’t think Elon Musk realizes how much money he’s going to lose on Twitter at this rate.
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Ridiculously impressive.
168 william st, nyc. you can order it by asking for "the rainbolt". do not gatekeep.
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Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter was so outlandishly high that a.) Twitter's old board couldn't say no, b.) Musk himself couldn't afford it, and c.) it damned the entire company to significant debt and massive layoffs. Every part of this deal has been and continues to be stupid.
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This is huge for the absolute craziest people alive.
Hilary Clinton’s longtime aide Huma Abedin has apparently moved on from her scandal-scarred ex-husband Anthony Weiner, re-sharing a photo of her cozying up to George Soros’ son, Alex Soros, for Valentine’s Day.
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Hi Travis Kelce stans! Soooo, you might be wondering who this Taylor Swift is, how music works, what “dating” means, is she better than Skyy Moore. Lotta questions, I know, but bear with me and we’re gonna go through it real slowly. 1/x 🧵.
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It's worth noting that if not for Section 230, Twitter and other social media companies would probably have to take down a lot more of Trump's content.
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I once interviewed Elon Musk for a piece in @TheAtlantic and the quote he gave me is, well, spot-on:
Like I always say with content moderation, every social media site owner who is “pro free speech” meets their line eventually. For 4chan, it was anime child porn. For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror. For Elon, it was people making fun of him.
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Regular reminder that Twitter verification started because of St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who sued Twitter because he was being impersonated on the platform. It was never intended to be (solely) about internet clout.
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i am so sick of all these talking heads in dc.
Believe that’s David Byrne hopping off the Senate subway just now
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If any other social media platform had its users reliably putting down the phone and opening a book it’d be hailed as a marvel of modern society. Also Circe is phenomenal, you should all read it.
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nepo baby drama will never die .
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Firing everyone, bashing his own employees, publishing their internal messages, charging for verification because he thinks it’s just a clout thing. These are all quick ways to degrade the company and the quality of the platform. Advertisers are going to leave very quickly.
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Know Your Meme is one of the few truly indispensable websites. It’s approaching Wikipedia-level helpfulness for me these days.
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And if he thinks anyone will pay $240 a year for a blue check mark, he doesn’t know how much money journalists actually make.
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New: Twitch disabled Trump's account:. "Given the current extraordinary circumstances and the President's incendiary rhetoric, we believe this is a necessary step to protect our community and prevent Twitch from being used to incite further violence.".
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Your election analyst name is Nate and then the street you grew up on.
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Two more notes on verification: 1.) It’s a way to show users which account is the real Justin Bieber or Anderson Cooper or, hell, Guy Fieri and 2.) it’s a way for Twitter to signal what/who is a reputable news source/journalist. But Musk thinks we just make stuff up, so whatever.
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There is this very strange and frankly worrying concept of the modern internet, especially in crypto, that you can start a billion dollar company that's legally incorporated and soliciting venture capital money, and expect complete anonymity. That's just not how anything works.
“Releasing their identities…was very, very dangerous for them and their families.” @nicolemuniz, CEO of @yugalabs, the company behind @BoredApeYC speaks about anonymity and accountability after the founders' identities were revealed. Join Us:
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Nothing quite like a viral post about child porn on thanksgiving. Happy Turkey Day, you freaks.
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Half of the company is being laid off tomorrow because Musk wanted to round up his offer to a weed joke number and then signed a binding contract with a specific performance clause like a clown and gave the board no choice but accept the deal and then sue to enforce.
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This is why we have the First Amendment. It protects us when the Missouri Attorney General tries to lock up people for what they publish. This, unlike most of the things Musk talks about, is a real free speech issue.
So they're gonna lock up a bunch of Media Matters researchers for noticing that racists love this website? Sure, go for it.
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no one:. everyone on linkedin: . "It is an absolute honor to announce I've been accepted for a summer internship at Goldman Sachs. I could not have done this without my father Marc Goldman and my mother Susan Sachs. This is a reminder to keep hustling and never stop dreaming.".
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i'm finally starting to think that maybe trump didn't have "incredible genes" or “excellent” cardiac health.
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Elon Musk is just going to flip every switch to “off” and gradually find out why each one was originally on.
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I have come to the conclusion that everyone involved with OpenAI is a bona fide psychopath.
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We simply can't let RFK get into @US_FDA. Period. Full Stop. He is dangerous. The FDA is one of the few non-partisan agencies that does a great job. RFK will try to fix what is not broken.
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Some of the dumbest things in business have been done in the name of maximizing shareholder value.
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“I’ve been sober for almost 24 years—but I know I could be Hunter Biden tomorrow because addiction doesn’t go away.” — @MollyJongFast
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I compiled a list of 160 incidents where journalists were hurt, arrested, wrongly restricted or targeted by police while covering protests across the U.S. this week. There are some instances of attacks by civilians, but the majority are by police.
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Twitter just slapped a “manipulated media” tag on @realDonaldTrump’s tweet with a fake CNN logo/chyron. It links out to the policy here:
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Trump's cabinet nominations fall into two camps: (1) okay bad but whatever, and (2) oh that one might end the republic.
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Everyone on LinkedIn is honored, humbled, or pleased. What a nice place.
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“Impeachment no longer feels like a punishment for Trump so much as a necessity for democracy. Either things matter or they don’t.” -.@MollyJongFast
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Breaking: Judge Carl Nichols (D.D.C) grants TikTok's request for a preliminary injunction, blocking a ban on new app downloads from taking effect at midnight.
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A PR person asked me to sign an NDA this morning in order to receive embargoed news. This is a new low.
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Twitter’s ad sales chief has resigned.
Hi folks, I wanted to share that I resigned on Friday from Twitter and my work access was officially cut off last night.
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Twitter needs the New York Times WAY more than the New York Times needs Twitter. And it’s not particularly close.
New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification:. "We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts," a spokesperson tells me.
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BuzzFeed and Vice got cool because they did cool journalism. Without their newsrooms, they’re not much of anything.
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A year ago, I didn't know what an N95 mask was or even how an egomaniacal Big Cat abuser could be in a throuple with two meth-addicted straight men and then go to jail for hiring a hitman to kill his nemesis and then not get pardoned by the president even though he expected to.
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John Lewis has been so important for so long that the first person to write his obituary, Roy Reed (listed as a contributor in tonight’s obit), left the New York Times in 1978 and died in 2017.
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Asked if he was relaxed in the box before hitting home run number 61, Aaron Judge said, “Of course. I’m playing a kid’s game.” Legend.
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A Google spokesperson tells me that @NBCNews gets it wrong. Google says The Federalist was notified they *could* be demonetized but hasn't yet been. They can still remedy. Google also says the sites' comments section not any articles were in violation.
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Perk of living in D.C.: three months a year we have a free outdoor sauna.
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I feel bad for Twitter employees getting laid off, but I’m not sure the ones staying are so lucky. Sounds like Musk is going to run everyone into the ground so he doesn’t start losing absurd amounts of money.
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@AP What happens to a dream deferred.Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore—And then run?
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We do not need to ask Elon Musk about gun control. His viewpoint isn’t relevant to anything.
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fact-checking trump on live tv is like giving a speeding ticket to a guy going 200 m.p.h. in a school zone.
CNN's @VanJones68 says @kaitlancollins "did a masterful job of fact-checking a lie machine in real time".
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me on a rainy day: How am I supposed to do work on a day like today?. me on a sunny day: How am I supposed to do work on a day like today?.
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Starbucks should have one line for people who order coffee and one line for people who order magical multipart milkshakes.
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I don't think every media company needs to be a worker-owned co-op but that thinking comes from a simple reality: the current generation of media owners is disproportionately filled with people who do not like journalism and do not read the publications they own.
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Signing off from work and Twitter for a few weeks! After 11-and-a-half years together, I'm getting married to the love of my life on New Year's Eve. See you all in 2023! 🥂.
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In a world rife with grayscale cancellations I’ve never understood why Mel Gibson—a clear-cut bigot—still gets work.
Mel Gibson, despite being a racist, anti-Semitic domestic abuser (all on tape), still gets mainstream work in Hollywood.
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If you see CSEM on Twitter, do not save it, do not screenshot it, do not tweet it to Elon Musk. Twtter's dedicated report form is here: Even if Musk fired that team (he seemingly has) use the form and call 1-800-843-5678 to inform the FBI of the report.
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It's not doxxing to reveal the founder of a billion dollar tech company. It's just not.
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Getting rid of Section 230 protections would likely mean that social media companies moderate way more content for fear of legal liability. I’ve never understood why this is a flashpoint law for conservatives concerned about online “censorship.”.
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The Clarence Thomas benefactor reporting has every major conservative writer coming out of the woodwork to say “I know Harlan Crow, I’ve seen his Nazi memorabilia, and it’s pretty dope actually.”.
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"Working at Facebook is rapidly becoming the equivalent of working at Philip Morris." — @Detox_Facebook .
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As big as Tucker Carlson has become, it would be hard for him to maintain his star power outside of Fox. Think of how the careers of Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly Fox, Glenn Beck, etc. went after they left. The real power is in Fox's platform.
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This has the potential to be the single dumbest tech hearing in history.
NEWS: Speaker McCarthy tells me Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is coming to the hill next week. "We'll continue this to make sure we educate everybody on it," he said.
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If you receive an email from me at 9:00 a.m. exactly, it means I wrote it at ungodly hour and found the decency to schedule it to send in the morning.
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NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci will do the full Ginsburg tomorrow, per @brianstelter, hitting all five of the major Sunday morning talk shows.
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The more I've thought about this story, the more I cannot imagine a reporter being the one at fault for breaking an embargo that every editor involved and their superiors should be aware of—all the way up to the top for a story as big as this.
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These interviews about Covid-19 were done in February and March. Why are we learning about it in a book published in September? Isn't there a journalistic imperative to publish this information in a timely manner. especially during a pandemic?.
Breaking: In recorded interview for Bob Woodward book, Trump said he knew coronavirus was "deadly" even as he publicly played down threat
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Hey, it’s time for some personal news: I’m joining @qz on May 24th to write about emerging tech. I’ve been a Quartz fan since the very beginning, so I can’t express how excited I am to join the team.
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