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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Apple's acquisition of Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead of a reboot on TV+ signals a strategy shift for the service that had relied on original content — Apple isn't echoing Netflix's strategy, but it's certainly doing something new — Apple is acquiring Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple acquires Martin Scorsese's next film, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro — ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ to be labeled an Apple Original Film — Apple Inc. has nabbed director Martin Scorsese's next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon …
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
After Twitter labeled Trump's tweets, his campaign and Fox News target Twitter's Site Integrity lead Yoel Roth; Twitter says Roth works on manipulation and bots — “No one person at Twitter is responsible for our policies,” a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
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Bloomberg:
After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down” — - Attack comes after Twitter fact-checked, labeled Trump tweet — Tech companies have faced criticism from conservatives of bias
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
In a first, Twitter adds a “Get the facts” label to two Trump tweets with false claims about mail-in voting, which links to a Twitter Moment refuting his claims
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
The Drudge Report has been linking to an obscure site filled with plagiarized content from NYT and others, sending ~8M pageviews to the site since November — On Tuesday, New York Times columnist Kara Swisher revealed that a widower sent a personal letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
To protect a key Boris Johnson aide caught breaking lockdown rules, his government is deploying Trump's “fake news” screeds under a veneer of British gentility — In early April, Matthew Weaver, a reporter at The Guardian in the UK, received a phone call from a source in Durham …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC's Emily Maitlis says she didn't host Wednesday's Newsnight after being reprimanded for her remarks on Cummings because she'd asked for the night off
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Indiegraf, with funding via Google News Initiative and Facebook Journalism Project, launches as a network of local news sites sharing resources in Canada — What would a newspaper chain look like if it were reimagined for a group of digital, subscriber-funded publications?
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
HBO Max launches without being on Roku and Amazon, the two most popular streaming platforms — The latest new streaming service HBO Max bowed with unlimited access to every episode of “Friends,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “Game of Thrones.” But if all you've got is a streaming player from Roku or Amazon, you won't be able to watch.
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
AT&T's incoming CEO John Stankey says WarnerMedia still plans to release a cheaper, ad-supported version of HBO Max early next year
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Financial Times:
Rising subscriptions help shield NYT and WSJ from worst of pandemic; NYT CEO: notion that its success is crowding out competition is “very strange defeatism” — Rising subscriptions help shield New York Times and Wall Street Journal from worst of pandemic
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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Behind the rise of TikTok “cults”, like Step Chickens, which revolve around a single creator and borrow tactics from “comment raid” groups on other platforms — Fandoms are forming around a new kind of influencer: the charismatic cult leader.
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Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
A look at leftist podcasts, like Chapo Trap House, which generates $2M in Patreon subscriptions annually from 36K subscribers, in the wake of Sanders' loss — Chapo Trap House—one of the most popular podcasts of the American far left—took a sharp turn after a devastating Super Tuesday for its preferred candidate, Bernie Sanders.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Instagram says it will now split revenue with creators, sharing 55% of the revenue from IGTV ads and badges on Live, starting with 200 partners next week — And purchasable Badges in Instagram Live — For the first time in its history, Instagram will start sharing revenue with creators through ads …
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Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Overview of efforts by Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, and others to boost Joe Biden's chances, including funding media via Acronym, which funds Courier Newsroom — Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Laurene Powell Jobs, Silicon Valley's new power set, are instrumental …
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