Bloomberg News deals with “Walter Bloomberg”

Max Tani of Semafor writes about the “Walter Bloomberg” account on Twitter and how Bloomberg News handles the connection.

Tani writes, “Normally, ‘Walter’ is a mild nuisance for Bloomberg. The company has at times tried fruitlessly to find the owner of the account, an ALL CAPS financial news aggregator that often posts Bloomberg Terminal headlines and coasts on Bloomberg’s name to juice engagement, and revoke their terminal access. (A Bloomberg spokesperson declined to comment on this.) But in 2025, someone like ‘Walter’ can shake Wall Street.

“The real Bloomberg did not report on the discussions of a pause until Trump and his Cabinet actually decided to pause a day later. Gregori told Semafor that he was proud that no one in the newsroom overreacted and picked up the CNBC or Reuters alerts without vetting them.

“In a separate conversation, Stephanie Flanders, the head of economics and politics at Bloomberg, noted that this was partially the result of Bloomberg journalists’ increased skepticism of news and information circulating online. The newsroom’s ‘habits have just continued to get tighter and tighter on these things,’ she said.”

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