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8:30 AM ET, October 31, 2022

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Eli Pariser / Wired:
Elon Musk's ad-dependent Twitter isn't the global town square democracies need; we need an overlapping ecosystem of smaller publicly owned digital social spaces  —  This is a moment to choose a different path, inspired by the lessons of thriving offline communities.
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CNBC:
General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership”  —  - General Motors is suspending its advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Among tech companies, Twitter has been the biggest defender of online free speech, globally; fired head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde drove much of that work  —  Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to fire a bunch of top executives.
ProPublica:
Analysis: how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinformation in Europe, Latin America, and Africa  —  Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
CNBC and Bloomberg ran headlines saying Elon Musk cut Twitter staff, based on two people with boxes outside the company's office; one used a meme as his name  —  In videos circulating on Twitter Friday morning, two men carrying boxes are seen standing near the entrance to Twitter's San Francisco building …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Jonathan M. Katz / The Racket:
Erik Wemple's reassessment of The New York Times firing James Bennet over the Tom Cotton op-ed is part of an effort to rewrite the 2020 civil rights protests  —  Sometimes, history changes unexpectedly toward the good.  And then, powerful people with something to lose try to change it back.
Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill / The Guardian:
The UK's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hires Amber de Botton, the head of UK news at ITV News, as his director of communications  —  Journalist Amber de Botton takes special adviser role for new prime minister  —  Rishi Sunak has hired Amber de Botton as his director of communications …
Karl Bode / Techdirt:
Renewed calls from telecom giants to tax companies like Netflix in the US and the EU over costs for traffic usage is set to reignite the net neutrality wars  —  from the please-pay-me-billions-of-dollars-for- no-sensible-reason dept  —  Telecom lobbyists have been working overtime in both the US and EU …
Chris Davis / WTVF-TV:
The Nashville Banner, which served the city for 122 years until 1998, plans to relaunch as a nonprofit news site with Scripps' local TV station as its partner  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In Demetria Kalodimos's office, a motto can be found all over: Real people, true stories.
Discussion: @henryrothenberg and MediaPost
James Fallows / Breaking the News:
US mainstream media cannot properly adapt to the realities of our times, and criticism is not working; the focus should instead be on building something new  —  But now I am ready to start on number six.  —  This is another post about the travails of the media.
 
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Attila Mong / Committee to Protect Journalists:
In Greece, unsolved journalist murders, threats such as arson attacks, and wiretapping of reporters' phones are worsening a climate of fear and self-censorship
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A US federal district court judge orders Starbucks union organizers in western New York to give Starbucks their messages to journalists; the union has appealed
Liz Robbins / Poynter:
A look at the “piecemeal” coverage of immigrant communities in North Carolina, where, out of nearly 300 media outlets, three reporters are dedicated to the beat
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Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Twitter confirms the company shut down its Ticketed Spaces test indefinitely before Elon Musk's takeover
Discussion: One Man & His Blog
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
In an email to staff, Chris Licht said CNN will stop buying documentary films and original TV series, and instead explore creating a long-form content studio