#FBI stymied by Apple's #LockdownMode after seizing journalist's #iPhone

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a #WashingtonPost reporter's iPhone because it was protected by Apple's Lockdown Mode when agents seized the device from the reporter's home, the US government said in a court filing.
#apple #security #privacy #journalism

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/fbi-stymied-by-apples-lockdown-mode-after-seizing-journalists-iphone/

The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced major job cuts, saying that "painful" restructuring was needed at the storied American newspaper. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/05/bezos-washington-post-layoffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #jeffbezos #washingtonpost #media #journalism #newspapers #newyorktimes

After the news about the massive layoffs at the Washington Post broke, the team at @Flipboard created this Surf Feed of independent journalists. Enjoy it as is, or create a new feed using it as a the source, then filter it according to the topics you're interested in, from news to video games.

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01kgn8zeax2mskhq1a14945bg7

#SurfFeeds #SurfSocial #IndependentMedia #Journalism #WashingtonPost

In a world of Jeff Bezoses, be a Marty Baron.

#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

In a world of Jeff Bezoses, be a Marty Baron.

#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

#FBI stymied by Apple's #LockdownMode after seizing journalist's #iPhone

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a #WashingtonPost reporter's iPhone because it was protected by Apple's Lockdown Mode when agents seized the device from the reporter's home, the US government said in a court filing.
#apple #security #privacy #journalism

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/fbi-stymied-by-apples-lockdown-mode-after-seizing-journalists-iphone/

"The layoffs are solely the responsibility of inept, incompetent, and inattentive ownership and management. It inherited a great American paper and left it in the rubble, putting hundreds of talented journalists out on the street."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
/7

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-the-post

After the news about the massive layoffs at the Washington Post broke, the team at @Flipboard created this Surf Feed of independent journalists. Enjoy it as is, or create a new feed using it as a the source, then filter it according to the topics you're interested in, from news to video games.

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01kgn8zeax2mskhq1a14945bg7

#SurfFeeds #SurfSocial #IndependentMedia #Journalism #WashingtonPost

"The layoffs are solely the responsibility of inept, incompetent, and inattentive ownership and management. It inherited a great American paper and left it in the rubble, putting hundreds of talented journalists out on the street."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
/7

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-the-post

"Let’s be clear about what this really is. This is not restructuring. This is not belt-tightening. This is not a difficult but necessary business decision.

This is capitulation to authoritarianism.

While journalists were being purged from The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos chose to spend approximately $75 million funding a movie about Melania Trump."

~ Ben Meiselas

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
/6

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/a-letter-to-jeff-bezos-and-the-washington

"A man like Jeff Bezos does not do anything because he has to. It has been decades since he was constrained by anything other than his own desires. What happened to the Washington Post over the last three years happened for one reason and one reason only: Because Jeff Bezos wanted it to be so.

Because he gets off on civic vandalism."

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
/5

"Most of the obituaries will blame environmental changes of technology and news consumption. These changes are real, but they are not why the Post is now in hospice.

No, this is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-dies-in-broad-daylight-bezos-lewis-layoffs

"It’s hard to be in Washington DC at this moment and react to anything except the devastating news that Jeff Bezos, with more than $250 billion at his personal disposal, and Will Lewis, the discredited Murdoch/Fleet Street refugee Bezos brought in to run (and ruin) the Washington Post, have today announced what is effectively the Post’s demise.:

~ James Fallows

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
/3

https://fallows.substack.com/p/management-under-a-mad-king-the-courtiers