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wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social

Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff

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Well, I guess if you're going to let someone run a place where it's user base is abandoning it in droves for whatever BS it's upper management is doing, I suppose having someone with experience is a good idea.

Imagine all of the talented and storied journalists and publishers out there right now, more than a few of them out of work due to media consolidation. And instead of picking one of them to run the Washington Post ... YOU PICK THE EX-CEO OF FUCKING TUMBLR WHAT IS EVEN THE FUCK

Because it's not always some evil scheme. Billionaires are given too much credit by people who want to see patterns and insist the world must make sense. It's even money whether or not there's some nefarious bullshit or some dipshit who thinks nine or ten zeros makes them a genius.

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why you been pushing back against what was evidently true from minute one? the only reason a billionaire parasite would buy a news outlet is to destroy and control the flow of info

I was sitting here thinking, “I wonder what major Tumblr catastrophe qualified this guy to run The Washington Post,” and happily you have informed me. Didn’t this guy banning porn from Tumblr devastate the user base?

I’m pretty sure He was hired because Bezos knew him. Outside of that it’s a bad look to hire the guy who ran a web site into the ground.