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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Court filing: Donald Trump sues CNN for defamation, seeking $475M in damages and accusing the network smeared him to undermine a potential run for re-election — Former President Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation, claiming the cable news network has escalated a campaign of libel and slander …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Staff at UK left-wing news site The Canary say they have “overthrown” management and now run the publisher as a co-operative, after finding “gross inequalities” — Staff at The Canary say they have “overthrown” the left-wing news site's management and are now running the publisher as a co-operative.
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One Man & His Blog, Canary Workers' Co-op, @thecanaryuk, @aljwhite, @abeaujon, @pressgazette, @pressgazette and @mrtopple
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
The US Supreme Court agrees to hear two Section 230-related cases involving terrorist content, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, and rule by July 2023 — The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued for hosting and recommending terrorist content …
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Disney announces a Dish “handshake deal” to temporarily restore its cable networks to Dish Network and Sling TV, ending a two-day blackout as the two negotiate — Disney and Dish have taken a major step towards a new carriage agreement after their dispute led to the Disney networks …
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Washington Post:
Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested the Ukraine war on live TV in March, escapes house arrest ahead of her trial; she faces up to 10 years — RIGA, Latvia — Marina Ovsyannikova — the Russian journalist who made international headlines after protesting the war in Ukraine live …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
How Dateline, NBC's 30-year-old true crime TV show, successfully expanded into several original podcast series, as well as podcasts from repurposed TV segments — The true crime storytelling that has done so well for so long on television seems to have met a moment in an entirely new medium.
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@harrymccracken, Podnews, @dominiquenbc, @jaycaruso, @koblin, @datelinenbc and The Week
Timothy McLaughlin / The Atlantic:
A profile of trade publisher IPVM, which became a principal source of investigative reporting on China's surveillance state, working with major US news outlets — How did a trade publisher in Pennsylvania become a principal source of investigative journalism on the repressive apparatus Beijing uses against the Uyghurs?
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@uyghurproject, @tmclaughlin3, @dahlialpeterson, @marykissel, @editorbtb and @m_johnston1
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Fandom acquires TV Guide, GameSpot, Metacritic, and other outlets from Red Ventures, sources say for ~$55M in cash, growing its monthly users from 300M to ~350M — The entertainment company's deal follows a wave of consolidation in the publishing world — Entertainment company Fandom Inc …
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The Citizen Lab:
Research: Mexican activists and reporters were hit by zero-click Pegasus attacks from 2019 to 2021, after Mexico's president said the country dumped the spyware — Key Takeaways — Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) …
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Committee to Protect …, @jsrailton, 9to5Mac, @sarafischer, @accessnow, @risj_oxford and @diazbriseno
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Filings: TikTok's European business reported $990M+ in 2021 revenue, up from $172M in 2020, and a $896M loss due to increased spending on its 4,396 staff — Social media platform records revenues of more than $990mn but losses also jump after recruiting thousands more staff
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@stuartdredge, @glenngabe, @cristinacriddle, TechCrunch, Engadget and Digital Music News
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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: TikTok plans to launch live shopping in the US with LA-based partner TalkShopLive; TikTok's in-house e-commerce experiments in the UK didn't take off
Sources: TikTok plans to launch live shopping in the US with LA-based partner TalkShopLive; TikTok's in-house e-commerce experiments in the UK didn't take off
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Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
The Onion files an amicus brief with the SCOTUS in support of Anthony Novak, who created a Facebook page to parody a local Ohio police department — Monday marked the first time in 34 years of The Onion's publication that what anyone might reasonably think is an Onion headline was an actual headline about the Onion.
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Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Mark Pedowitz, the chairman and CEO of The CW for 11 years, plans to leave as Nexstar completes its acquisition of a 75% controlling stake in the network — Mark Pedowitz, who has served as chairman and CEO of The CW for the past 11 years, will be exiting the network as Nexstar completes …
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New York Times:
Philippine police say Percival Mabasa, a news radio host and critic of President Marcos Jr., was shot dead on Monday, the second journalist killed since June — The radio host Percival Mabasa was killed during an ambush, the police said. He had been a prominent critic of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr …
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