Dan Whateley@dwhate

media reporter @businessinsider | member of @insiderunion

Joined March 2012
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me writing something stupid on twitter: 3,000 views me trying to share my reporting: 26 views
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BI's @dwhate watched 130 campaign ads about AI so you didn't have to. businessinsider.com/what-i-l…

What I learned about AI's PR crisis from bingeing 130 political TV ads

Electricity bills and other costs are the focus for political campaigns attacking AI and data centers in ads, according to our review of TV spots.

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Techmeme
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US gov't data: 669 of 1,089 approved H-1B hires for TikTok and ByteDance from Oct. 2022 to Sept. 2023 were from China, up 50% YoY, despite US lawmaker scrutiny (@dwhate / Business Insider) businessinsider.com/tiktok-r… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?from… techmeme.com/241112/p22#a241…

TikTok and its owner ramped up their hiring from China, even as Congress raised national security...

TikTok and its owner ByteDance sought to hire 669 Chinese employees in the US through the H-1B program in the government's fiscal year 2023.

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Mark Stenberg@MarkStenberg3
12 Nov 2024
Exclusive: A new Google policy is penalizing publishers for using third-party vendors to run their affiliate operations. Since July, Time, Forbes, CNN, WSJ, and Fortune have seen their search visibility nosedive, costing millions in revenue. For @ADWEEK:adweek.com/media/cnn-forbes-…

Forbes, CNN, and More Lose Millions As Google Policy Tanks Affiliate SEO

The steep drops in search visibility could mean the end to outsourcing affiliate operations

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A headline can't get any more New York than this
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Makena Kelly@kellymakena
7 Nov 2024
I spoke with the guy behind Trump's influencer and podcast strategy ⤵️ Plus some additional insight from @hasanthehun, @cjpearson, and @ericwilson. wired.com/story/donald-trump…

Donald Trump's Win Cements a New Era for Campaigning Online

On the ground, the Trump campaign was at a disadvantage to Kamala Harris’s massive canvassing operations. But many misunderstood the power—and purpose—of influencer marketing campaigns.

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CLICK-IT LINE: We ask that you not cross our digital picket line by playing any of the NYT Games (Wordle, Connections) as well as not using the Cooking App. You can continue to read @Nytimes news content.
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if you think the mainstream media is fake news, be an equal opportunity skeptic and also fact check what you see on social media
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Brian Stelter
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28 Oct 2024
The clippers drive news coverage because the moments they post on X get noticed by TV producers; get circulated among reporters; AND get reposted across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Yesterday's MSG rally inspired me to write a @CNN column about this: cnn.com/2024/10/28/media/ele…

How social media video clippers have become some of the most powerful outlets of the 2024 campaign...

Some of the most powerful people in this year’s election cycle are the clippers.

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The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ
25 Oct 2024
Elon Musk has secretly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022 on.wsj.com/48jWPuO on.wsj.com/48jWPuO

Exclusive | Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin

Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.

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If you are one of the influencers that's pheasant hunting with Walz, my DMs are open
Elena Schneider
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10 Oct 2024
Scoop - Tim Walz to kick off man-focused media blitz. - GMA intv with Michael Strahan on football field - MI events on Friday, geared toward Black men - Friday night lights @ Mankato West - Pheasant hunting with social media influencers politico.com/news/2024/10/10…
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Foreign adversaries don't even need to bother doing disinformation this election cycle. Americans are doing a great job creating and spreading it on our own
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The names in this Boar's Head story have such 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' energy. Boggis, and Bunce and Bean? No, Brunckhorsts and Bischoffs
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read here! nytimes.com/2024/10/13/busin…

The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand (Published 2024)

The deli-meat company made its owners fabulously wealthy. But they have remained silent, even as the company faces the biggest scandal in its history.

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Sara Fischer
@sarafischer
15 Oct 2024
💢Media trust has hit another historic low ahead of this year's election — Media is now the least-trusted civic and political institution surveyed by @Gallup — Worrisome trend: Trust declining mostly among young people — Trust falls among Dems, Indpts driving most of the decline axios.com/2024/10/15/media-t…
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if you do a media startup, you need to pose like this in the launch coverage
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We sent @jesslucaswrites to hang out with @ADoricko for a weekend. Read her profile of the 24-year-old founder intent on starting a new tech movement — and creating God’s kingdom on earth businessinsider.com/rainmake… via @BusinessInsider

For God, for country, for rain

With his new cloud-seeding company, Rainmaker, Augustus Doricko has launched a God-fearing, Zyn-loving tech hub in El Segundo, California.

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It's so deeply confusing to browse X these days when a 'verified' national parks account posts a digitally altered image (presumably to gain followers or juice engagement and make money in X's creator program). How long was this up before a community note was added?
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Every single school in the US needs to be teaching media literacy and that social media (generally) is not a reliable source of information. This needs to happen today, not in 6 months or a year when generative AI is so rampant that we're fully lost in a fog of fake content
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