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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more — Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: after churning out 500+ original programs in 2021, Netflix is looking to rein in costs and add fewer new titles with a greater emphasis on quality — Streaming service spent lavishly on productions to win subscribers, but now growth has slowed — Your browser does not support the audio tag.
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Protocol:
Netflix lost 700K subscribers by suspending its service in Russia, where it was available for six years; ad-supported plans could help Netflix catch up abroad — This Thursday, we're taking a closer look at Netflix's plans to bring ads to its service. Also: New leadership for Crunchyroll, and the mini-metaverse.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: ~350 of CNN+'s 700 staff will be laid off with pay and benefits for the next 90 days; much of the CNN+ programming will be reallocated to other services — The shuttering of CNN+ three weeks after the subscription service launched will be remembered as one of the most chaotic moments of CNN's 40-year history.
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill revoking Disney's special tax status, effective as of June 2023, after a clash over the state's “Don't Say Gay” law — Gov. Ron DeSantis's move to revoke the company's special tax status in Florida showed how combative his party …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Journalism organizations, nonprofits, and unions ask the Pulitzer Prizes to require newsrooms to participate in a diversity survey for award eligibility by 2024 — An open letter calls on the industry's highest honors to include a new participation clause.
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Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Twitter bans ads that promote climate change denial and contradict “scientific consensus” — Twitter says ads can't contradict “scientific consensus” on the environmental crisis — Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Some Houston journalists question the American Journalism Project's $20M commitment to create a new nonprofit news outlet, since Houston is not a news desert — It's part of a thriving nonprofit journalism movement. But reaction from within Houston's existing media ecosystem ranges from skeptical to icy.
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David Zurawik / CNN:
Editors and producers detail the challenges in covering news from Ukraine's Mariupol, including few legacy correspondents on the ground and unverified videos — (CNN Business)After weeks of on-scene, live coverage of the war in Ukraine by some of the world's best journalists …
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Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed sues to block arbitration claims from employees who say the company improperly denied them the opportunity to sell their shares following its IPO — BuzzFeed Inc. wants to block arbitration of claims that the company botched its initial-public offering and improperly denied employees …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A Russian court charges Washington Post opinions contributor and dissident writer Vladimir Kara-Murza for allegedly spreading “false” info about Russia's army — The dissident writer, who called Putin's government “a regime of murderers,” faces prison under a Russian law that attempts to control speech
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Wall Street Journal:
As the Kremlin pushes Russians to use homegrown social media like Rutube and VKontakte, some users and content creators stick with Western services — Kremlin cracks down on Western social media, but Russia's homemade alternatives are a tough sell — The Kremlin is waging a new influence campaign …
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