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6:25 AM ET, October 24, 2022

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The Wire:
The Wire retracts two recent stories about Meta's XCheck program and says it is using “independent external experts” to investigate its coverage  —  Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta, especially the sources and materials involved in our reporting.
Semafor:
Fox Chief Legal Officer Viet Dinh lacked a California law license for nearly four years, which may open more communications to discovery in defamation cases  —  Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch's top lawyer spent nearly four years without a license to practice law in California …
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Miklos Bolza / AAP:
An Australian judge declines to throw out Crikey's public interest defense in Lachlan Murdoch's defamation lawsuit; the trial is scheduled for March 27, 2023
Dake Kang / Associated Press:
A profile of Wang Zhi'an, a former CCTV investigative journalist who fled China to Japan amid Xi's crackdown, and built large followings on Twitter and YouTube  —  Investigative journalist Wang Zhi'an once exposed corruption, land seizures, and medical malpractice in China …
Discussion: @martijnrasser
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney and F1 sign a new US media rights deal through the 2025 season to air 16+ races on ABC and ESPN each season commercial-free, including streaming on ESPN+  —  The deal will see ABC, ESPN and ESPN+ air F1 races through the 2025 season.  —  Formula 1 is staying with Disney.
Nathan Grayson / Washington Post:
Following Comcast's abrupt shutdown of G4 on October 16, former employees describe a directionless gaming network and its leadership's ever-shifting priorities  —  Constant pivots, high costs and controversy bedeviled the directionless network in the lead-up to its collapse.
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Joseph Bien-Kahn / Bloomberg:
A profile of Joe Berlinger, who helped redefine crime docuseries as social justice vehicles, as he rides Netflix's wave of popularity for serial killer stories
Perry Vandell / Arizona Republic:
Over 60 former journalists in Arizona sign a statement condemning anti-media rhetoric and “bold disregard for facts, reality, and truth” by some GOP candidates
Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Spotify says Taylor Swift's 10th album, Midnights, broke the service's record for the most-streamed album in a single day
Marie Woolf / Globe and Mail:
Meta threatens to block sharing news content on Facebook in Canada if a proposed federal bill forcing tech giants to pay media outlets for links becomes law
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
An evaluation of a merged News Corp and Fox, valued at $9.7B and $16B respectively, which if reunified could approach Warner Bros. Discovery's $30B market cap
Jennifer Korn / CNN:
When researchers submitted 20 ads with “blatant” voting misinformation, TikTok approved 90%, Facebook approved a “significant number”, and YouTube approved zero
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Survey: 52% of US respondents think advertising should be news outlets' largest source of funding and 26% have ever paid for news or donated money to an outlet