2025-02-18
In case you've missed an amazing coincidence of entirely unrelated events: the Saudi state's PIF buys $1bn stake in struggling DAZN, who just invested $1bn in unwanted TV rights of Club World Cup to aid FIFA, who just gift-wrapped a World Cup to the Saudi state.
Financial Times
Surj, the sporting arm of Saudi Arabia's PIF, plans to invest $1B in DAZN and a new joint venture with the sports streamer; source: Surj will take a <5% stake
SURJ Sports Investment doesn't just invest for the sake of it. Any deal must add value to the Kingdom and align with its sporting ambitions, not just be a strong Matt Slater / @mjs...
2023-07-11
Weird. Turns out turbocharging toxicity on an already hate-filled platform while making it less user-friendly, increasingly unusable, bot-heavy, putting it behind a paywall (thus appealing exclusively to tryhards with fragile masculinity) and firing all your staff doesn't work. https://twitter.com/...
The Guardian
With Twitter traffic “tanking” and Threads ascendant, Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg “is a cuck” and proposes “a literal dick-measuring contest”
Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk's network