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10:40 AM ET, February 25, 2022

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@youranonone:
The website of state-affiliated Russian news outlet RT News was taken down Thursday, and Twitter accounts from the Anonymous collective took credit  —  The #Anonymous collective has taken down the website of the #Russian propaganda station RT News.
The Daily Beast:
In a tweet, AP promoted the sale of an NFT linked to a video of migrants in an overcrowded boat, then deleted the tweet and canceled the sale after criticism  —  GHOULISH  —  The Associated Press on Thursday hurriedly attempted to scrape the egg off its face after promoting a forthcoming …
New York Times:
A look at how CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC covered the first day of Russia's invasion, with the latter two highlighting their opinion hosts  —  Fox News stars like Tucker Carlson questioned why Americans hated Vladimir Putin, and CNN showed Russian tanks and rockets in live war-zone dispatches.
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 …
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: BlackRock and Warner Music invest $750M in a fund to buy music-rights catalogs from female and diverse artists, and already spent $300M on 20 catalogs  —  The companies seek stakes in newer music copyrights in partnership with Influence Media  —  BlackRock Inc. and Warner Music Group Corp …
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.
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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
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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
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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
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
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