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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
A disorienting interview with Jack Dorsey on his Myanmar tweets, right-wing extremism, and what he'd do if Trump called on his followers to murder journalists — A Q&A with Twitter's CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he'd do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.
Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook:
Facebook takes down 315 Pages, 152 accounts, 4 Groups, and 41 Instagram accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Netflix estimates it accounts for 10% of US TV screen time, shares audience numbers for some movies and TV shows, such as Bird Box's audience of 80M households — The streaming service says it now accounts for 10 percent of TV viewing time. — Netflix has more than 130 million customers watching its TV shows and movies.
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Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Netflix reports mixed Q4 earnings, with revenue of $4.19B vs. $4.21B est., says it added 8.8M global paid memberships, up from its estimate of 7.6M — - The company beat Wall Street estimates for earnings per share, but fell just below projections for revenue.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Les Moonves will pursue an arbitration claim to fight CBS for the $120M severance he was denied after the board determined he was fired for cause — Former CBS Corp. chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves will pursue an arbitration claim to fight CBS for the $120 million severance that he was denied …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
NY Post Publisher Jesse Angelo is leaving the company and will be replaced by Sean Giancola; Michelle Gotthelf has been promoted to digital editor-in-chief — Sean Giancola is replacing Angelo as publisher and CEO of The New York Post. — Jesse Angelo is leaving his role as publisher …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Jewish publication The Forward is suspending its print edition and laying off 40% of its staff, including Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner — The Forward is stopping — its print editions. — The storied Jewish-American publication is suspending its print operations and plans to lay off …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Viceland will launch Vice Live, a two-hour show at 9pm ET Monday-Thursday that recaps the day in pop culture and social media, starting February 25 — F-k it, Viceland is doing it live. The cable network will revamp its primetime lineup next month to launch a nightly two-hour live show …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
NPR has turned its news quiz, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, into a five-minute game for smart speakers that use Google Assistant or Amazon's Alexa — NPR has turned its popular “Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!” news quiz show into an interactive game for smart speakers: Owners of speakers powered …
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Variety:
A look at how debt is shaping the industry as media giants amass large amounts of debt to build streaming platforms in an effort to better compete with Netflix — Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chairman-CEO, summoned all of his folksy Oklahoma earnestness as he made an enthusiastic pitch …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The BBC's first female deputy general director, Anne Bulford, will step down in the spring — The BBC's deputy director general Anne Bulford, the first woman to hold the role, has decided to leave the corporation in the spring. — Bulford rejoined the BBC as managing director of finance …
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Corey Ford of media accelerator Matter, which paused its media venture fund after funding from news companies dried up — In its seven years, Matter.vc has shepherded 73 media startups through eight accelerator programs, funded by two rounds of investments from a bunch of media companies.
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