Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Oh forgot a few more: Surprised to be booed in public; makes embarrassing lies in public that no one believes. https://t.co/J6S8GZiX0f — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Stiffing vendors and staff, bailing on public promises, blaming your inner circle for your own mistakes. Rings a bell… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@yozetty @jasonschreier Jason was great. Really strong interview. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Thing I knew which is the reason I did this interview: General/tech/media journalism *still* ignores games. Compare the chatter about this deal with Disney/Fox or Time Warner/ATT/Discovery. (Yes I’m guilty too.) — PolitiTweet.org

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TIL: *Activision’s Call of Duty is the company’s flagship game but Candy Crush (!) may be equally important to Microsoft: Dominant on mobile, very high margin. *Like the FTC’s fight with Meta over VR, this is a fight about a nascent market: Netflix-style game subscriptions. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Wanted someone to explain the games industry, Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision bid and the reason the US government wants to stop it. So I talked to Bloomberg’s @jasonschreier, who is an excellent explainer. https://t.co/DMY30IkohL https://t.co/M7Ku6JSLIp — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chafkin: Wow sbf arrested https://t.co/N0mWBbQM4Q — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeIsaac More favors to dole out — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeIsaac He loves that part! That’s half of the impulse! The other half is the idea that it will make Twitter a subscription business. (While removing much of the inventory his struggling ad business has to sell so…) — PolitiTweet.org

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Again, this is not the important part: If Musk follows through with the plans he floated weeks ago (I know), people who *don’t* subscribe to Twitter will have a degraded experience. That is: Twitter will become a subscription service. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @celinegounder: Appreciation: Grant Wahl and the big, generous soccer life he led - Los Angeles Times https://t.co/Jn7p9Xb5fq — PolitiTweet.org

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@elonmusk @omnihedge The last two minutes of this clip are Chappelle discussing the booing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lessin @Leoloom https://t.co/iM2bLMtZo1 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @joepompeo: As expected: "Emma Tucker has been named the next Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, succee… — PolitiTweet.org

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@EghosaO Yes — PolitiTweet.org

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Better quality here: — PolitiTweet.org

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Ok finally got the spelling right: https://t.co/xHEvJ2M6DT — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Chapelle (and Chanelle for all I know) requires his attendees to put their phones in Yonder bags so they can’t tape clips like this. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here, for now, is video of Elon Musk getting booed onstage at last night’s Dave Chanelle show. The twitter account that originally posted it no longer exists. — PolitiTweet.org

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Super-entertaining TV show! https://t.co/adlaX5C3FN — PolitiTweet.org

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@nicoleperlroth https://t.co/Zhuy6DfnZG The recpie is slightly confusing bc for some reason they forgot the part about blanching the tomatillos but it’s easy and not terrible for you. — PolitiTweet.org

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Earlier this week Grant posted this dispatch about Qatar’s abysmal treatment of migrant workers. https://t.co/iRK3gIgA5q https://t.co/t0UcCvXunZ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Grant Wahl was the way most Americans learned about soccer for decades. (He was kind enough to chat with me about it, and his move from SI to substack last year: https://t.co/aH3R9r25eS). And he covered this World Cup while standing for human decency at the same time. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rdlewis: NPR can confirm the death of longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl). He died today in Doha, Qatar while covering… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jeffbercovici: You know what, I don't think the Twitter Files are a total nothingburger. You should be able to see what kinds of contro… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bryce Bryce, as you surely recall, Jack always explained that he was able to pull this off because the two companies were equidistant from his home, so it wasn’t an issue. We all accepted this explanation then and we can’t change our minds now. — PolitiTweet.org

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“a mostly intractable problem that is at the heart of our societal decision to outsource broad swaths of our political discourse and news consumption to corporate platforms whose infrastructure and design were made for viral advertising.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@natarajsindam That was during the Trump administration, and Trump praised the deal. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also while we are here time to squint again at this oddly sourced story https://t.co/1q83lh6QlJ — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/KynJCdOeD5 — PolitiTweet.org