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Billy Perrigo / TIME:
Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more — (To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world's top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.)
Max Tani / Semafor:
MSNBC removing Tiffany Cross demonstrates the tension between delivering a progressive viewpoint to a liberal audience and avoiding bombast and snark — MSNBC's decision to part ways with its top-rated weekend anchor came after an escalating internal conflict.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A profile of Molly Jong-Fast, who became a liberal media star by amassing 1M Twitter followers and joined Vanity Fair as a special correspondent on November 3 — She wasn't a political expert. But her Trump-era angst found a following among Democrats — and even the White House is interested.
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
Elon Musk says Twitter plans to add the ability to attach long-form text to tweets, implement creator monetization for all forms of content, and improve search — Followed by creator monetization for all forms of content
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Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Elon Musk's focus on Twitter Blue is part of a trend in which consumer tech platforms pivot away from advertising to recurring revenue through subscriptions
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Billy Binion / Reason:
Police jailed journalist Priscilla Villarreal for two routine 2017 stories due to a Texas law; a US court isn't sure if her First Amendment rights were violated — It has been five years since police in Laredo, Texas, mocked and jeered at Priscilla Villarreal, a local journalist often critical of cops …
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Alexandra Borchardt / European Broadcasting Union:
An interview with Deutsche Welle EIC Manuela Kasper-Claridge on climate journalism as a way to attract talent, how newsrooms should cover the climate, and more — Interview with Manuela Kasper-Claridge, Editor-in-Chief, Deutsche Welle by Dr Alexandra Borchardt, Lead Author, EBU News Report 2023 …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
The UK's ITV plans to launch its ITVX streaming service on December 8, available with a free, ad-supported tier and a premium tier with BritBox and no ads — The company, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, will replace its ITV Hub in an attempt to attract more eyeballs.
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David Pierce / The Verge:
An interview with Todd Sherman, the product manager of YouTube Shorts, as the company rolls out the TikTok-competitor to its TV apps — YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube's endless-scrolling short-form TikTok competitor …
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Marisa Sarnoff / Law & Crime:
Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy loses his defamation suit against Insider over articles accusing him of sexual misconduct — The founder of a website known for crass and degrading content that often veers into harassment, racism, and misogyny has lost his defamation claim …
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@klasfeldreports, @davidfolkenflik, @be_d and @oneunderscore__
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC News retracts an erroneous story about the attack on Paul Pelosi that used an unnamed source's “unreliable” info, as the story did not meet its standards — People at the network said the ‘Today’ show report was based on ‘unreliable’ information from a source who was unnamed in the story.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with telecom reporter Karl Bode about Gigi Sohn's nomination to the FCC as Comcast and Fox Corp. team up to lobby swing votes in the Senate against her — How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up? — Today, we're just talking about a problem.
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@reckless, @reckless, @charlesarthur, @juliaangwin, @commoncause, @karlbode, @karlbode, @stevenrenderos and @karlbode
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
A look at Michelle Ross-Stanton's quest to understand the murky circumstances of the death of her photographer husband and another Fox News reporter in Ukraine — Michelle Ross-Stanton has spent months investigating the March 14 attack on her husband, Pierre Zakrzewski, and his colleagues outside Kyiv.
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