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6:55 PM ET, February 24, 2022

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Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Sinclair says a 2021 cyberattack cost $63M in lost Q4 ad revenue, reports an $89M loss, down from $467M net income in Q4 2020, on $1.47B revenue, down 2% YoY  —  Company reports $89 million net loss for fourth quarter  —  Sinclair Broadcast Group said that the cyber attack the company faced …
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Delaware's Supreme Court upholds a judge's dismissal of a lawsuit by Candace Owens against Facebook fact-checking media organizations USA Today and Lead Stories  —  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware's Supreme Court has upheld a judge's dismissal of a lawsuit filed by conservative political …
Larry Edelman / The Boston Globe:
Jonathan Abbott, CEO of public media outlet GBH, is stepping down in December after 15 years, during which he grew the newsroom from a dozen journalists to 110  —  During his 15 years in the top job, Abbott has guided the public media pioneer's shift to digital platforms, expanded local news, and boosted its endowment by 800 percent.
Discussion: @bostonfdn
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Spotify removes several recently uploaded episodes of The Alex Jones Show, which it banned in 2018, after Media Matters for America discovered the episodes  —  Spotify appears to have quietly pulled several episodes “The Alex Jones Show,” hosted by the notorious right-wing conspiracy firebrand …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish lost ~273K net pay TV subscribers in Q4, including ~70K Sling TV subscribers; Dish ended 2021 with 8.22M Dish TV subscribers and 2.49M Sling TV subscribers  —  The company, led by chairman Charlie Ergen and CEO Erik Carlson, lost satellite TV and Sling TV customers.
Discussion: Light Reading and Next TV
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Study: since May, Facebook labeled only about half the posts promoting 184 climate change denial articles from publishers like Breitbart and Newsmax  —  Facebook is falling short on its pledge to crack down on climate misinformation, according to a new analysis from a British watchdog group.
 
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Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
Reddit publishes its 2021 transparency report: 665K pieces of copyright-infringing content were removed, up 104%; 2,813 users and 2,625 subreddits were banned
Ed Z / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
Some journalists, guilted by crypto zealots into “being open-minded”, fail their readers by giving the scam-filled crypto industry the benefit of the doubt
Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Twitch launches the Ad Incentive Program to pay select streamers a guaranteed monthly minimum ad revenue based on amount of ads run per hour and hours streamed
Discussion: Protocol and Engadget
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The Nation:
The Nation names Jacobin founder and publisher Bhaskar Sunkara as president, succeeding Erin O'Mara, who will stay on as a strategic consultant
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Conservative Brief, which has three writers, passed The Washington Post and The New York Times on Facebook, seemingly by paying large Pages to share its content
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen expands its Media Impact planning tools, adding streaming services ratings to help advertisers and media buyers plan cross-platform campaigns
Discussion: Variety and SlashFilm