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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
A look at a complaint against The China Project, a US-based news company, alleging it acts as a foreign agent and China influenced its coverage, which it denies — Shannon Van Sant's career neatly tracks the American media's romance and disillusion with China.
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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.
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The Indian Express:
The Wire files a complaint against its researcher Devesh Kumar with Delhi Police, a day after police charged its journalists for forgery and other infractions — The complaint has been filed against Devesh Kumar who is allegedly involved in the fabrication of documents and forgery in connection …
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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 …
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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.
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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 — In Greece, two unsolved journalist killings over the last 12 years as well as threats of violence and physical attacks …
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