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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Elon Musk pens an open letter to calm Twitter advertisers, arguing his goal is not “to make more money” and the service “cannot become a free-for-all hellscape” — Mega-billionaire Elon Musk, nearing the finish line in his rocky takeover of Twitter …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ahead of Elon Musk's takeover, advertisers on Twitter are concerned about looser content moderation and potential conflicts of interest for car ads — Marketers worry about the Tesla CEO's stance on content moderation, potential conflicts in auto advertising if the Twitter deal completes
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Defector:
Defector reports $3.8M in annual revenue, up from $3.2M in 2021, $3.7M in expenses, up from $3M in 2021, and 38K subscribers, who contribute 95% of revenue — Purpose of this report — Defector continues to have no outside investors and no intention of raising outside capital.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The US DOJ formally bans the use of subpoenas, warrants, or court orders to seize reporters' communications records or demand notes or testimony in leak probes — The rule codifies and expands a policy he issued in 2021, after it came to light that the Trump administration had secretly gone …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
CNN names Athan Stephanopoulos, previously the president of NowThis, as its chief digital officer, starting November 14 — CNN has named Athan Stephanopoulos as its new chief digital officer, appointing a veteran of the online video business to grow its audience as the network braces for further cost-cutting.
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Semafor:
Sources: former The Hill owner Jimmy Finkelstein says he's raised at least $40M for a new digital news outlet billed as a Washington Post-Daily Mail hybrid — The media entrepreneur Jimmy Finkelstein has taken one step closer to launching a new entrant in the American news landscape …
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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Following complaints from prominent developers, Apple says the company “paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages” — Original story from October 25 follows. — Apple today rolled out new ad placements in the App Store on the iPhone …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Similar to its heavy coverage of a migrant caravan in 2018, Fox News has steadily ramped up mentions of crime as the US midterms approach — A few weeks ago, I wrote an article headlined “Crime is surging (in Fox News coverage)." It was a follow-up to an article I'd written a few weeks prior …
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q3 advertising services revenue grew 25% YoY to $9.55B vs. $9.48B est., and subscription services revenue grew 9% YoY to $8.9B — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Amazon reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results. — Earnings: 28 cents per share
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The Verge:
Spotify updates its iOS app to remove audiobook purchasing instructions, replaced with a message saying “it's not ideal”, to comply with Apple's App Store rules — An update for Spotify's iOS app released Thursday had a big change for its audiobooks vertical — and not for the better.
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Agence France-Presse:
AFP and Twitter partner to elevate credible information in Spanish in Latin America, Spain, and the US, a month after announcing a deal for Portuguese in Brazil — AFP, one of the world's leading news agencies, and Twitter announced on Thursday a collaboration to identify …
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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
NewsGuard: partisan organizations masquerading as local news outlets spent about $3.94M on Facebook and Instagram ads so far in 2022, based on Meta's Ad Library — Facebook and Instagram are running millions of dollars in ads from so-called pink-slime newsrooms — partisan organizations masquerading …
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