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since i was writing for a general audience i only tucked in a short paragraph about using RSS as a journalist or researcher, but i genuinely have no idea how anyone functions without it.

sometimes in an interview someone will ask me for my “secret” for staying on top of crypto news, and the secret is literally just RSS

“Curate your own newspaper with RSS”

The Verge and Wired lean in to newsletters

Interesting to see two major news outlets — The Verge and Wired — both announce major newsletter strategies nearly simultaneously. I suspect both are motivated by the hope that email will be "stickier" than the (declining) direct traffic to news websites.

"The Verge Launches New Site Features Aimed at Deepening Audience Engagement and Announces New Editorial Newsletters"

"A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You"

The Verge cites the desire to "deepen[] its direct relationship with readers". Wired writes "The platforms on which outlets like WIRED used to connect with readers, listeners, and viewers are failing in real time", saying they wish to "connect our humans to all of you humans".

I made a quick video about media literacy and the misleading Wall Street Journal headline I highlighted this weekend

@molly0xfff Media literacy is important! #medialiteracy #mediabias #wallstreetjournal #wsj #nokings ♬ original sound - Molly White

The sources for this WSJ article about “Democrats” are: Third Way, a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago, and a Republican consultant

Democrats Are Wary of Playing Into Trump’s Hands by Supporting ‘No Kings,’ L.A. Protests
Some leaders are feeling the long shadow of 2020 demonstrations that sparked GOP backlash

El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.

El Faro English
@elfaroenglish
🚨“We have received reliable information that the Salvadoran Attorney General’s Office is preparing arrest warrants for El Faro journalists,” announces El Faro director
@CarlosDada

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El Faro
@_elfaro_
May 3
“Hemos recibido información confiable de que la Fiscalía General está preparando órdenes de captura contra periodistas de El Faro”, informó hoy @CarlosDada, director de El Faro. 🧵

Mira esta conversación:

El Faro English
@elfaroenglish
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May 4
El Faro just published a three-part video interview with two former leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios gang, shedding new light on Bukele’s years-long relationship to, and negotiations with, Salvadoran gangs.
From elfaro.net
El Faro English
@elfaroenglish
May 4
“We understand that the alleged crimes for which these warrants are being built are apology for crimes and illicit association. Any capture or raid on our homes will be for having done journalism,” states editor-in-chief
@CronistaOscar

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El Faro
@_elfaro_
May 3
Replying to @_elfaro_
“Comprendemos que los delitos por los que construyen estas órdenes es por apología de delitos y agrupaciones ilícitas. Cualquier captura o allanamiento a nuestras casas va a ser por haber hecho periodismo”, señaló @CronistaOscar, jefe de redacción de El Faro.

I get that this is headlinese, but an “is” (“is asked”) would go a long way here

Protos headline: Elon Musk asked to ‘jerk off’ the president during disastrous livestream

Short video: Spend a day with me, a fulltime independent writer of the technology newsletter Citation Needed.

@molly0xfff I'm a fulltime independent writer of the technology newsletter Citation Needed. #adayinmylife #spendthedaywithme #independentjournalism #newsletter ♬ original sound - Molly White

apparently preventing fraud is “anti-crypto”.

according to this Fortune headline, the SEC going after fraud and deceptive business practices after a company publicly announced they were going to breach a previous agreement with the agency is an “anti-crypto campaign”

According to the Wells Notice, viewed by Fortune, the SEC plans to formally accuse Unicoin of violations related to fraud, deceptive practices, and the offering and sale of unregistered securities, although the letter did not specify the exact violations.

Still, because of its novel approach, Konanykhin toldFortunethat the company has been subject to several SEC investigations, though the latest is the first to result in a Wells Notice. He said that the company had entered into a so-called standstill agreement with the SEC earlier this year not to conduct an ICO or go public, but Konanykhin said he decided to breach the agreement after Trump won the recent election. Unicoin had previously filed paperwork with the agency announcing its intent to go public through a reverse merger.

This is particularly hilarious given that Fortune has skewered Gary Gensler for failing to go after the FTX, Celsius, and Terra frauds.

Gary Gensler blew it again. After his agency failed to warn investors about Terra and Celsius—whose collapses this spring sparked a trillion-dollar investor wipeout—the Securities and Exchange Commission chair allowed an even bigger debacle to unfold right under his nose. I’m talking, of course, about the revelation this week that the $30 billion FTX empire was a house of cards and that its golden boy founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, is the crypto equivalent of Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes.

Schrödinger’s regulator can’t go after fraud before the company collapses, but if it collapses and the SEC didn’t warn us, they failed.

Remember when mainstream news outlets published a bunch of incredibly irresponsible articles about how rich people were getting off crypto, and then people bought in and got wrecked over the two years of "crypto winter" that followed?