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Rolling Stone:
Filmmaker Alex Holder, who followed the Trump family for a documentary over the last six weeks of his 2020 campaign, gave the footage to the January 6 committee — Former administration and campaign officials tell Rolling Stone they had no idea a film crew had months of access to the former president and his family
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Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal:
The Canadian government approves legislation that will compel YouTube, TikTok, and streaming services to boost domestic content; the law now heads to the Senate — Government says measures needed to foster growth in domestic cultural sector and make Canadian content more accessible
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@jeffjarvis and @paulvieira
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta's housing advertising system of discriminating against Facebook users based on their race, gender, religion and other characteristics.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, after an investigative report on the site's years of hosting nonconsensual sexually explicit videos — MindGeek, the internet company best known for operating Pornhub, said that CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
PwC: subscription streaming video services in the US are projected to generate $25.32B in 2022 revenue, up 13% YoY but down from 2021's annual growth of 19.5% — Subscription streaming video is cooling down from torrid growth rates seen in 2020 and '21 — fueled by pandemic lockdowns …
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Axios
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The Washington Post is offering a promotional digital news subscription for $50/year, locked in for the next 50 years; a normal subscription costs $100/year — Anyone who tells you they know what digital news will look like in 50 years is lying. But the Post — with an owner rich enough …
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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
SEC filing: Warner Music Group CEO Stephen Cooper will leave the company in 2023 after a replacement is appointed — The company said Stephen Cooper will leave by the end of next year and succession planning had begun.
Wikimedia Foundation:
Wikimedia Enterprise, a paid service for reusing and sourcing Wikimedia content in high volume, announces Google and the Internet Archive as its first clients — San Francisco, CA, USA ― Wikimedia Enterprise, a first-of-its-kind commercial product designed for companies that reuse …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at Stroll, an 18-year-old local magazine company that operates ~600 free, print-only, hyper-local magazines in 48 states and had $131M in revenue in 2021 — N2, a local magazine company, will rebrand next week as “Stroll,” bringing all of its 650+ local print magazines under the same branding, executives tell Axios.
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@jpiacenza, @scmitchp, @michaelkruse and @sarafischer
Katie Collins / CNET:
The EU says TikTok agreed to curb undisclosed ads by altering its branded content policy and ad reporting options and to ban promoting “inappropriate products” — After complaints that TikTok was breaching EU consumer rules, the company has worked with the European Commission to update its branded-content policy.
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Josh Ye / Reuters:
China's Bilibili launches a paywall for some videos, as it seeks to diversify revenue after its market cap dropped from ~$54B in February to $10B+ this month — Chinese video platform Bilibili , has launched a paywall for some of its videos as the company, bruised by Beijing's sweeping crackdown …
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Monthly:
Jeff Bezos should gift The Washington Post's Arc XP CMS to a mission-driven nonprofit entity that would open source it, as a public service to the news industry — When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, he quickly became aware of a longtime problem hobbling …
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