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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Google redesigns News, elevating local news and fact checks, and relaunches the service in Spain after eight years, following Spain adopting EU copyright rules — Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced …
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
An analysis of how Apple's ATT approach is blatantly anti-competitive and harms targeted advertising that is an essential ingredient to the new internet economy — Last week the German Bundeskartellamt ("Federal Cartel Office") announced in a press release:
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