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4:20 PM ET, July 9, 2019

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
WarnerMedia's HBO Max is set to launch in spring 2020 with 10K hours of programming including exclusive streaming rights to Friends, CW dramas, and films  —  Greg Berlanti and Reese Witherspoon also signed to movie deals for HBO Max  —  Get ready to make “Friends” with HBO Max …
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap:
Netflix says Stranger Things 3 has been viewed by 40.7M households since its July 4 launch, a new record for a Netflix film or series  —  Netflix says “Stranger Things 3” has been viewed by more than 40 million household accounts since its July 4 premiere, a new record for the streaming service.
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
A look at the spread of Seth Rich conspiracy theories, and how one theory allegedly was posted by Russian foreign intelligence three days after Rich's death  —  WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Rather than blaming Russia, it's more accurate to pin the broad embrace of Seth Rich conspiracies on Julian Assange, Alex Jones, and Sean Hannity  —  At a moment when linking 2016 election events to malign Russian intelligence officers has seemingly gone out of style, Yahoo News's Michael Isikoff …
Discussion: @pbump and @katestarbird
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Federal appeals court rules that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter  —  President Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications …
Charlie Smith / Georgia Straight Vancouver's …:
Seventy-nine people at the Globe and Mail take buyouts, with more than half in the editorial department, amid an effort to cut labor costs by $10M annually  —  More than half are in the editorial department  —  The newspaper industry in Canada is a little bit smaller this month.
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
YouTube officially returns to Fire TV and Amazon's Prime Video is launching today with support for Chromecast and other Android TV devices  —  Amazon and Google have mostly made up  —  YouTube is officially back on Fire TV devices starting today, almost a year and a half after Google pulled …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Facebook will start taking a 30% cut from fan subscriptions via desktop starting 2020 and a 15% fee for second year subscriptions via mobile platforms  —  Facebook will take a cut of up to 30% on fan subscriptions, beginning on January 1, 2020.  —  The social network is revealing its plans …
Neima Jahromi / New Yorker:
An overview of moderation challenges facing YouTube, which raise fundamental questions about what social media platforms have become and what they should be  —  The video giant's recent travails underscore a basic question: How “neutral” should social-media platforms try to be?
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Andrew Ferguson / The Atlantic:
A look at the WSJ's Friday Mansion supplement, which offers readers envy and schadenfreude while never holding the powerful to account  —  Each week, The Wall Street Journal offers its readers the choice between envy and schadenfreude.  —  Mansion, The Wall Street Journal's real-estate supplement …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
A reporter and a cameraman at Radio Marti, which is run by US Agency for Global Media, have been suspended for allegedly faking a mortar attack on the reporter  —  WASHINGTON — The United States Agency for Global Media, the government's foreign broadcast service, already struggling …
Discussion: Boing Boing
Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Australian anti-encryption laws, which allow agencies to modify data, bypass journalist protections formerly guaranteed by other laws and enabled the June raids  —  New legislation has given AFP ‘power to strike a chilling blow against press freedom’, cybersecurity researcher tells parliamentary review
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

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Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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