During one of Sloan's interviews on the set, there is a tweet on the TV behind her saying that "Toby from The Office was cute." The person who played Toby in The Office (2005) is Paul Lieberstein, an executive producer of The Newsroom and director of this episode.
The interview Sloan does with Bree, in which he defends his app that shows where celebrities are at all times, is heavily based on the discussion that Jimmy Kimmel, filling in for Larry King on CNN on 2007, had with Gawker's Emily Gould about the map indicating locations of famous people on the "Gawker Stalker" site. Some of the lines are taken verbatim.
The final soundtrack/song of the episode is sung by the famous Norwegian singer, Sissel Kyrkjebø.
