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12:45 PM ET, March 2, 2022

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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Roku says it will no longer offer RT News among its channels globally, after earlier pulling the Russian state-controlled TV network from its service in Europe  —  Roku, the widely popular internet television service, will no longer offer RT among its channels, a company spokesperson told POLITICO on Tuesday.
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The EU officially bans Sputnik and five legal entities associated with RT; national regulators must ensure that the sanctions are enforced  —  Kremlin-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik are officially banned in the EU as of Wednesday morning, in a move meant to crack down on Russian disinformation amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Euan O'Byrne Mulligan / The Guardian:
BBC stops all content licensing in Russia and requests the remaining episodes of two programs for which it sold rights are not aired on Russian state TV  —  Rival broadcaster ITV will also put a stop on new programme sales to Russian clients  —  The BBC will no longer license TV content …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
DirecTV drops RT “effective immediately”, accelerating this year's contract expiration timeline; DirecTV and Dish are the only major US TV providers carrying RT
Mark Scott / Politico:
YouTube plans to block Russia-backed RT and Sputnik in the European Union and the UK, following similar bans by Meta and TikTok, citing the invasion of Ukraine
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Apollo Global is in talks with Australia-based PointsBet Holdings and other sports betting companies about merging their assets with Yahoo Sports  —  - Apollo Global is considering merging Yahoo Sports with a sports betting company, sources say.  — A deal could set …
Vikas SN / Moneycontrol:
Netflix acquires Finnish game developer Next Games for around $72M; the studio specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as Stranger Things  —  Next Games had released ‘Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales’, a role-playing game based on the streaming giant's hit 80s horror drama series in October last year.
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
Meta releases its Q4 Widely Viewed Content report, showing the most viewed Facebook Page comes from a banned account; Meta would not reveal the account  —  Safe to say that Meta's efforts to refute the idea that Facebook amplifies divisive political content are not going exactly as it would have hoped.
Washington Post:
Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch remains a small pilot project 13 months after launch, with only 359 contributors flagging tweets in 2022  —  With the Ukraine war unfolding on social media, parsing fact from fiction has never been trickier — or, for those involved, more urgent.
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
BBC Studios signs a content deal with MX Player, India's largest AVOD service with a strong presence in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and other countries  —  STREAMING  —  BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, has set a content deal with MX Player, India's largest AVOD service …
BBC:
A look at the alternative reality being presented by state media in Russia, often claiming that Ukraine was responsible for strikes on its own cities  —  Never was there a better illustration of the alternative reality presented by Russian state media than at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK High Court dismisses a libel claim brought by a Kazakh mining giant against FT journalist Tom Burgis and Harper Collins over his book Kleptopia
Amanda Yeo / Mashable:
Reddit quarantines r/Russia and r/RussiaPolitics over “a high volume of information not supported by credible sources” and bans a mod for acting in bad faith
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine
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Jonathan Tannenwald / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Turner Sports wins English-language TV rights for US Soccer starting in 2023 and HBO Max will be the primary outlet; sources: the deal is worth ~$25M per year
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Q&A with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Novaya Gazeta EIC Dmitry Muratov on pressure from the Russian government, planning for a “very difficult period”, and more
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta demotes content linking to Russian state media outlets on Facebook globally, will do the same on Instagram, and plans to label the content on both apps
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter starts labeling tweets that link to Russian state-backed media outlets and plans to label other countries' state media outlets “in the coming weeks”
 

 
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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for ~$30B; Alphabet was close to a $23B deal for Wiz last summer before talks ended

Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: Google plans to partner with Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek to design and produce its next-gen TPUs, set for 2026, but will still work with Broadcom

Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware:
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation

 
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