Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @BOENYC: NYC Early Voting 2020 is Complete!!!! Manhattan 238,581 Bronx 153,079 Brooklyn 3… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @dseetharaman: According to WaPo, Facebook officials last year internally removed penalties against Donald Trump Jr for repeatedly shari… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Which made sense, since I couldn’t do anything other than stammer at her. I’ll say this about Ruth Shalit: she was very polite when a rando called her for reason at all. ### — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

One day I called the New Republic, just to see if she was a real person. She picked up - this is when people had desk phones and used them - and was confused about why I was talking to her. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

My first journalism job out of school was writing about class A office leases and light industrial building sales in Minnesota. I was obsessed with Ruth Shalit, who seemed to be roughly my age but lived in another universe. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

The 90s were very different! And Carr vs Shalit was very good. https://t.co/acNt1u1AxF https://t.co/yDxJdrfusv — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @palafo: “The phone rings at my home. It’s Ruth Shalit. We have a spirited discussion about journalistic ethics. Mine.” - quite a read f… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daiwaka: Starting Sunday and until the polls close, YouTube’s homepage will belong to President Trump. How that became the case is a so… — PolitiTweet.org

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@arctictony @megreenwell @ErikWemple wait WHAT? — PolitiTweet.org

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@arctictony @megreenwell @ErikWemple Don't care I'm clicking on any story that has a Ruth Shalit screengrab, because I have very specific interests — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @teddyschleifer: New this AM — Silicon Valley is spending WAY more to support Joe Biden than it did to support Hillary Clinton, per a R… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DelRey: I'm donating a portion of my book advance to the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund that supports news orgs like @NYAmNews @Docum… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeIsaac Funny how Facebook toggles from all-seeing machine that remakes our reality to 4th grade talent show and back again. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cbalfe Good tweet but no. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @ranimolla: Despite the pandemic and a recession, the world’s biggest tech companies report staggering profits https://t.co/koKmJVaQeC… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SaraMorrison: "A public option, but for banking." @EmilyStewartM has the scoop on @AOC and @RashidaTlaib's bill https://t.co/Cyni1iXy… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

“It looks as if we are headed in completely the wrong direction with an awful combination of too much corporate and too much state power all at once.” — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Thanks and thanks to @zeynep — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@brchastain @ranimolla The old raise was 60%. This is much more cautious. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @oneunderscore__: Months before the NY Post story, a document passed around far-right websites detailed a vast Hunter Biden conspiracy.… — PolitiTweet.org

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@aweissman @sd_so "Here’s a business axiom: if you’re trying to make money, it is bad if people enter your business who are not trying to make money." — PolitiTweet.org

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@aweissman @sd_so tldr it's that the streamers are able to live with much less profit (if any profit) — PolitiTweet.org

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@juliastmi Dreams for sure. Even flat front gap khakis had room in the pockets for dreams. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Here’s my earlier story on the Apple/Facebook ads/privacy fight, which has since been kicked down the road to early 2021. https://t.co/6oMbaTEwMY — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@juliastmi Yeah it’s weird that you guys fact-checked my seating arrangements with Henry Blodget but not my pant choices. I did own a four-button suit; I did not have cargo pants. (Cargo shorts, for sure) — PolitiTweet.org

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Reminder: There was no pandemic seizing up the global economy last year. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Context: Facebook can handle some headwinds. Q3 ad revenue was $21.2 billion, up 22 percent from last year. — PolitiTweet.org

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Once again, Facebook calls out Apple’s upcoming anti-tracking changes for its phones as a “headwind” for Facebook’s ad business. https://t.co/szOjAaPLGV — PolitiTweet.org

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@aripap @ewiesen @GreatDismal I mean if you just give them a rebate or similar, easy. But then that (presumably)wouldn’t show up in the ad library. — PolitiTweet.org

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@aripap @ewiesen @GreatDismal I mean you could do a crude version of this easily, right? Where you just apply a discount after the fact? But it would be a clumsy kind of influence peddling. — PolitiTweet.org