Peter Kafka

@pkafka89k followers

Chief correspondent at Business Insider. Host of Channels pod, every Weds. Monkey via @andybyday. “Someone I like reluctantly.”

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#	Date	Post	↓ Outlier	Views	Likes	Reposts	Bookmarks
1	Dec 18, '22	Started going	49×	609k	3.3k	669	72
2	Apr 27, '23	Even for Elon, wild: His lawyers contend that maybe he didn’t say something because maybe it was a deepfake. The thing is that he said it onstage at the 2016 Code Conference, in fr	28.2×	350k	1.3k	287	44
3	Nov 10, '25	600 Paramount employees quit (w/severance) instead of going back to the office 5 days a week.	24.4×	303k	4k	476	304
4	Oct 10, '16	Warren Buffett fact checks Donald Trump.	24×	0	3.3k	2.3k	1
5	Jun 19, '24	It’s boring to keep saying cable TV is collapsing but boy oh boy is cable TV collapsing. Pay TV - including digital substitutes like YouTube TV and Hulu Live - lost a record 2.37 m	23×	286k	387	75	80
6	Jul 1, '23	Look. If Elon Musk says we should spend less time on Twitter then we should take him seriously and literally.	20.6×	256k	5.9k	533	14
7	Feb 7, '22	Full text of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s note to staff:	18.9×	0	1.9k	396	268
8	Sep 20, '24	Oliver Darcy on his RFK/Olivia Nuzzi scoop - why it matters and why it was hard for him to write - to me:	17.6×	219k	1k	176	166
9	Aug 21, '23	Another “is a lot of this just Elon + drugs?”, which, again, is widely discussed but seldom published. This time it’s Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker.	16×	198k	671	198	43
10	Jul 29, '21	NFL team pays Twitter to distribute an anti-vax message from one of its players.	15.2×	0	3.6k	619	37
11	Sep 17, '25	For the "both sides have been canceling people" folks - please cite previous examples of FCC heads encouraging broadcasters to suspend a talk show.	12.7×	158k	6.7k	750	196
12	Sep 11, '24	Four years ago Taylor endorsed Biden using Instagram and Twitter. This year, just Instagram. I have a pretty good guess about what’s changed. You do, too.	12.6×	157k	6.2k	613	33
13	Oct 20, '25	Disney lost millions of customers during the Jimmy Kimmel @BrendanCarrFCC stand off	11.4×	141k	470	101	28
14	May 12, '23	This one is signature Elon: Either he knew that pre-announcing his CEO hire would force her out of her current job - days before her biggest presentation of the year …. or that he	10.9×	135k	279	48	16
15	Feb 16, '23	News: YouTube’s CEO is leaving after a 9-year run. Read her memo to employees here:	10.3×	128k	145	89	8
16	Jul 17, '19	Netflix says Always Be My Maybe, which everybody in my TL was chatting about, was watched by 32 million people in its first month. Adam Sandler's Murder Mystery, discussed by zero	10.2×	0	2.3k	301	39
17	Aug 7, '24	A few years ago Time Warner was worth $85 billion. Now that company, combined with what used to be Discovery, is worth about $18 billion. Today’s chapter in the decline: A $9 billi	10.1×	126k	484	133	59
18	Jun 27, '23	Elon Musk’s drug use has been the subject of frequent speculation, and it’s easy to find people who insist they know about it. But it hasn’t made it into print until now. WSJ’s @Ki	9.6×	120k	247	73	17
19	Jul 17, '19	Netflix raised prices in Q2, but says that wasn't the problem. Instead it says their shows and movies didn't attract enough new subscribers. As it has done before, it has a chart t	8.7×	0	1.5k	390	58
20	Dec 16, '22	CNN:	8.3×	104k	215	80	2
21	Aug 10, '22	Disney says it has 221 million streaming subscribers. Netflix has 220.7 million.	7.7×	0	1.9k	167	69
22	Nov 7, '24	Lots of talk around here about Twitter's influence on the election. Some talk about TikTok. Zero discussion about YouTube. Even though, at a minimum, YouTube is where The Young Men	7.3×	91k	1.5k	178	52
23	May 20, '24	Seems like she is saying the CEO of OpenAI is not consistently candid.	6.9×	86k	675	63	48
24	Sep 2, '21	The former staff of Deadspin launched @DefectorMedia a year ago. Now it has 40,000 subscribers, no ads, a >$3 million run rate, and 23 employee/owners. “This rules”, says editor	6.6×	0	1.5k	205	88
25	Sep 10, '24	Professional news: I have two jobs! Very excited to start chatting again. Sara has the backstory below. You can get tomorrow’s show - an interview with the New Yorker’s David Remni	6.6×	81k	238	19	17
26	Jul 17, '19	Giant miss. Forecast was 5 million subs.	6.2×	0	1.4k	284	17
27	May 9, '20	Amazing! NYT found someone to clean up Trump’s “tests aren’t great because they tell you that you’re sick” argument.	6.0×	0	1.2k	234	18
28	Oct 9, '20	You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.	5.9×	0	1.4k	268	14
29	Sep 21, '20	This is a good way to court Qanon voters without ever saying “Qanon” out loud.	5.8×	0	1.4k	243	13
30	Sep 5, '24	Larry Ellison. 4th-richest man in the world. Owns a big chunk of Hawaii, where his pal Elon stayed when he launched his Twitter bid. Owns a chunk of Twitter. Backs Donald Trump. Is	5.2×	65k	341	103	31
31	Jan 30, '22	The difference, which Spotify hopes you ignore: Facebook never signed a giant contract to be the exclusive distributor for a podcaster famous for hosting the likes of Alex Jones.	5.2×	0	1.2k	246	52
32	Jan 16, '19	This is a very good de-pantsing of the "(random) people are saying things on twitter" story format, which we should absolutely be done with in 2019, but will not be, because it's t	5.1×	0	894	425	17
33	Oct 27, '23	Lots of gloom in digital media. Here’s a bright spot: @dropout, the streaming comedy business Barry Diller gave away because he couldn’t make it work. But @samreich figured it out,	4.9×	60k	578	54	12
34	Feb 1, '19	UPDATE: Spotify will pay more than $200 million in cash for Gimlet.	4.7×	0	744	233	19
35	Jan 28, '19	Financials for @BillSimmons’ @ringer: $15mm/year from podcasts, which accounts for most revenue. 100 employees. Profitable.	4.6×	0	909	191	90
36	Sep 21, '21	The Facebook Court, created and funded by Facebook, says Facebook may not have been “fully forthcoming” when it answered questions about the way Facebook works. The Facebook Court	4.3×	0	955	234	21
37	Jan 27, '21	Here's a Michael Lewis story from Feb 2001 - right after the dot com bubble burst - about a New Jersey teenager prosecuted by the SEC for stock manipulation. It is very good and yo	4.3×	0	805	219	78
38	Jan 3, '18	FCC chair Ajit Pai, who has appeared at CES for last 5 years, is bailing this year.	4.1×	0	497	255	0
39	Mar 2, '20	So wild that Trump wants this televised.	3.9×	0	995	134	37
40	May 9, '19	Here, again, with context: Disney has written off its entire stake in Vice — the $400 million it put in directly, plus its A&E stake, its Fox stake, etc. All gone.	3.7×	0	524	221	46
41	Aug 13, '20	Here's the transcript for that part of the conversation, which I also provided to Weiss, who declined to comment.	3.6×	0	882	100	26
42	Nov 10, '22	Reminder that bankruptcy doesn’t mean Twitter shuts down. It means Elon renegotiates his $1b/year debt committment and tells his pals who helped him buy this thing that you can’t w	3.5×	0	688	213	23
43	Sep 26, '18	Facebook made WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton a billionaire and he has mixed feelings about it. Great story. “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a co	3.4×	0	458	252	41
44	Apr 12, '19	Disney+ event lasted 2 hours, 45 minutes. Can sum it up here: $7 a month, launchs in November, has a ton of old Disney stuff and some new stuff. And the Simpsons.	3.3×	0	653	183	6
45	Jun 25, '19	Finally official: nbcu bringing The Office back from Netflix to its own streaming service in 2021.	3.3×	0	707	105	10
46	Jan 6, '17	I liked twitter better when it was liberating the Middle East.	3.2×	0	752	153	0
47	Mar 6, '20	This happened because of BuzzFeed reporter @JasonLeopold.	3.1×	0	794	138	9
48	Oct 16, '19	Mike Fucking Isaac is turning his Uber book into a Showtime show with the Billions guys. Congrats to @MikeIsaac for ignoring my advice and to @briankoppelman and @DavidLevien for g	2.8×	0	786	46	5
49	Aug 13, '20	I also asked Thompson about @bariweiss' allegations that she'd encountered "unlawful discrimination" and a "hostile work environment" at NYT. His answer: We take the allegations se	2.7×	0	638	95	12
50	May 9, '23	Elon: I’ve got a problem. Advertisers hate me. Tucker: Me too! Let’s link up.	2.5×	32k	254	63	3
51	Feb 15, '18	Peter Thiel thinks Silicon Valley is too liberal so he's moving to Hollywood. (shhh don't tell him)	2.5×	0	499	105	1
52	Jan 27, '21	After pumping GameStop, Redditors are trying to do the same with AMC Entertainment, which is up > 200% this am.	2.3×	0	518	66	11
53	Jul 17, '19	In the old days, networks would let Netflix buy and revive their cancelled shows. Now they're restarting them for their own services (See also: Gossip Girl for HBO Max)	2.3×	0	602	81	11
54	Jan 13, '18	We are at a hotel and they are playing CNN at the breakfast nook so our kids have added “shithole” and “porn star” to their vocabulary.	2.3×	0	480	110	0
55	Nov 1, '17	"Protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits," say Mark Zuckerberg, announcing $4.7 billion Facebook Q3 profit.	2.1×	0	332	153	0
56	Feb 7, '22	View post on X	2.1×	0	370	40	19
57	May 24, '21	Netflix started making its own shows and movies in 2013. So did Amazon. One them figured it out, and the other is paying $9 billion for James Bond.	2.0×	0	497	73	18
58	May 20, '24	@wongmjane @BobbyAllyn The tweet is extra. The part where he asked for permission twice and didn’t get it is the relevant part.	2.0×	25k	273	2	10
59	Sep 20, '24	In any other circumstance this would be the quintessential New York Magazine story.	2.0×	25k	277	17	11
60	Mar 25, '19	The "how will WSJ sell its $37/month subscription in a $10 all-you-can eat Apple News bundle" question answered: It won't.	2.0×	0	351	136	8
61	May 11, '21	“Amazon studios executives had to send Bezos regular updates on the projects in development that included spreadsheets describing how each show had each story element; and if one e	2.0×	0	346	86	47
62	Jan 30, '19	NEW: Apple says Facebook research app is a "clear breach of their agreement with Apple", and won't let them distribute it anymore. Via @KurtWagner8	1.9×	0	289	133	3
63	Nov 8, '18	Vice Media takes a haircut: Disney, which put $400 million in Vice, has written off $157 million of that investment.	1.9×	0	318	129	5
64	Oct 20, '16	Trump finally unites the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal	1.9×	0	266	189	0
65	Jan 26, '21	Great piece on the 22 year old who was running, until this week, Philly’s vaccine program, which is a giant shitshow.	1.9×	0	311	96	25
66	Sep 25, '16	I looked at this photo 10x before I realized they were taking selfies, not looking at someone who wasn't Hillary.	1.9×	0	284	143	0
67	Jun 29, '17	NYT guild says staffers will walk out at 3pm today to protest plans to lay off copy editors.	1.9×	0	361	122	0
68	Feb 8, '21	My kids rewound so they could read the 5 second Reddit ad so mission accomplished.	1.9×	0	484	65	7
69	Jan 31, '17	Sorry, want to be clear: White House official told multiple reporters he doesn't want lots of Muslims in the U.S.	1.8×	0	223	191	0
70	Aug 3, '20	Donald Trump trying to make money from the sale of a thing he didn't make or own is the most Donald Trump thing there is.	1.8×	0	462	74	4
71	Sep 14, '18	It is very weird that one of the four most important tech execs in the world has disappeared and we have collectively shrugged. Great story.	1.8×	0	289	118	22
72	Feb 18, '17	All the President's Men is on HBO.	1.7×	0	396	80	0
73	Sep 27, '16	View post on X	1.7×	0	254	149	0
74	Jun 1, '18	It’s nuts that you guys aren’t using Foursquare. Still the best “I don’t know what’s around, tell me where to eat” app, hands down.	1.7×	0	378	60	1
75	Jan 27, '21	Just guessing here, but I think AMC Networks - the cable programmer that brings you Better Call Saul - is spiking bc Redditors are confusing it with AMC Entertainment - the theater	1.7×	0	330	63	2
76	Sep 30, '22	Brutal chart via @RichLightShed. Take away the NFL and it’s almost impossible to find someone under the age of 50 who watches broadcast TV.	1.7×	0	273	85	24
77	Jan 8, '21	Yale Law School Total Landscaping	1.6×	0	444	48	1
78	Oct 20, '21	Netflix PR boss Rachel Whetstone used to work at Google, Uber and Facebook, and has seen a fire or two.	1.6×	0	348	51	26
79	Feb 25, '21	AT&T paid $67 billion for DirecTV in 2015. Now it’s worth $16 billion.	1.5×	0	271	57	22
80	Apr 21, '20	Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says Disney is doing better at transforming its business than any "incumbent" he's ever seen.	1.5×	0	443	31	8
81	Mar 18, '19	I asked Hastings how U.S. lawmakers should think about regulating big tech companies like Netflix. His answer: We're not a tech company. "We’re really mostly a content company powe	1.5×	0	299	69	10
82	Feb 7, '19	OH in newsroom: "Sorry I have to write about Jeff Bezos' penis right now" (Actually I said that.)	1.5×	0	448	29	2
83	Feb 14, '19	Reminder that Google is buying approximately all the real estate in Manhattan south of 23rd street and it’s nbd	1.5×	0	286	90	7
84	Jun 29, '20	Alt hed: David Duke, an actual Grand Wizard of the KKK, had a YouTube channel. In 2020.	1.5×	0	339	90	2
85	Nov 9, '22	Advertisers explain why Elon’s outreach won’t be enough. The Tweet is coming from inside the house.	1.5×	0	318	84	15
86	Jun 4, '20	The Newspaper of Record has migrated its Slack to Twitter.	1.4×	0	424	29	3
87	Aug 10, '22	These are not apples to apples numbers (lots of Disney bundled subs etc) and now Wall Street is less singularly focused on sub numbers. But the idea that Disney has “caught up” to	1.4×	0	435	14	3
88	Jul 15, '21	We won’t mandate vaccination, which does prevent covid spread, but we will mandate masks. This isn’t sustainable.	1.3×	0	320	52	5
89	Dec 11, '18	If you are old you will remember when both AOL and Yahoo seemed as synonymous with the Internet as Facebook does today.	1.3×	0	285	62	4
90	Apr 18, '18	Facebook: Pictures of your kids Instagram: Pictures of your lunch Twitter: Pictures of abandoned, VC-funded motorized scooters clogging San Francisco sidewalks	1.3×	0	343	52	0
91	Oct 12, '18	Our friends and family are gathering in New York tomorrow to celebrate Cindy Lobel. @karaswisher wrote about Cindy earlier this week and here is @katierosman . Thank you all for yo	1.2×	0	332	22	2
92	Jan 11, '21	Fox builds and starts bonfire, complains about flames and heat.	1.2×	0	255	56	3
93	Jan 30, '22	Spotify would like you to believe its Rogan problem is the unfortunate and unforeseen downside of being a platform during a pandemic. But it’s a problem it created for itself - via	1.2×	0	291	50	10
94	Jan 19, '21	Netflix, which used to burn through as much as $3 billion a year - and constantly funded that gap with new debt - says it no longer has to borrow any more money. A very big milesto	1.1×	0	268	48	8
95	Aug 15, '20	Media, btw, still struggles to explain Q. Often gets lumped next to wrong-but-kinda-understandable misinformation, like anti-vaxx or anti-mask or anti-climate change science. It’s	1.0×	0	227	56	3
96	Sep 15, '20	OK, one more time: A bundle of stuff you don't want is still a bundle of stuff you don't want.	1.0×	0	280	26	2
97	Jun 2, '17	We are toasting @waltmossberg and he is thanking @karaswisher who is on her phone so all is as it should be. Thanks for everything, Walt.	0.9×	0	262	20	0
98	Sep 17, '25	@sunnyright @PeterHamby Must be a long list then! You can thread them all here.	0.9×	11k	691	2	3
99	May 23, '20	One of my regrets is the number of times I’ve said or written the word “content”.	0.9×	0	253	8	2
100	Jan 14, '21	@BGrueskin @lpolgreen “Paul tried to take matters into his own hands when he realized Airbnb’s customer-support staff was ill-equipped to deal with a possible coup of the U.S. gove	0.8×	0	257	9	1

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