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9:40 AM ET, November 28, 2022

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Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team  —  For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated
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The Guardian:
The BBC says journalist Ed Lawrence, who was covering protests in Shanghai, was detained for several hours and beaten by police, without a credible explanation  —  Journalist Ed Lawrence was beaten after being arrested at a protest against China's strict Covid restrictions, broadcaster says
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Guardian, NYT, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El País, which were the first to publish WikiLeaks material, urge the US to end its prosecution of Julian Assange  —  First outlets to publish WikiLeaks material, including the Guardian, come together to oppose prosecution
Federica Cherubini / Reuters Institute:
A survey of 136 news leaders from 39 countries: 61% say their organization has largely embraced hybrid and flexible work, 20% want a pre-pandemic working model  —  The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that some of the assumptions we had about work were wrong.  Across many industries, work had a dedicated place: the office.
Riley de León / CNBC:
Time President Keith Grossman, a staunch advocate of crypto and NFTs at Time, is leaving to be the president of enterprise at crypto trading service MoonPay  —  - Time president Keith Grossman is leaving the legacy publisher to take on a new role as the president of enterprise at crypto trading platform MoonPay, effective December 31.
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
The Washington Post grows its climate and environment team from six in 2018 to 30+ in 2022, aiming to attract younger readers who are passionate about the topic  —  The Washington Post has grown its climate and environment team from six in 2018 to now more than 30 people.
Financial Times:
Sources: Twitter's ads team has shrunk so much after layoffs that ad agencies complain its ads systems are now buggy and that they lack a point of contact there  —  Top brands abandon social media platform as billionaire owner berates chief executives who have curbed spending
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Financial Times announces leadership changes: Janine Gibson becomes FT Weekend editor, Matthew Garrahan will lead digital platforms and strategy, and more  —  Among the changes, Janine Gibson will become FT Weekend editor and Matthew Garrahan will be head of digital platforms and strategy.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
John McAndrew, who was GB News' editorial director and director of news and programmes at its launch, joins the BBC as director of news programmes  —  John McAndrew most recently helped to launch The Andrew Neil Show on Channel 4.  —  John McAndrew, who was editorial director and director …
R.T. Watson / Wall Street Journal:
How live-action YouTube kids channels Vlad and Niki, Like Nastya, and Kids Diana Show, with a total of ~300M subscribers, are building global franchises  —  Vlad, Niki, Diana and Nastya party on yachts, ride in Ferraris and travel the world.  Their massive audience of fellow kids can't get enough.
 
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Susan Chandler / Poynter:
Medill Subscriber Engagement Index shows that subscriptions rose at large, medium, and small US newspapers tracked between September 2021 and August 2022
Alistair Gray / Financial Times:
How Woolworths, Loblaws, and other retailers are developing digital advertising arms and profiling customers, aiming to become ad venues for large brands
 Earlier Picks: 
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: Fox's Thanksgiving NFL telecast of Cowboys vs. Giants was the most-watched regular season game ever, with 42M viewers across broadcast and streaming
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Survey of UK adults: 29% trust journalists to tell the truth, the highest score for them since the survey's 1983 launch, and 58% trust TV newsreaders, up 6% YoY
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
Controversy around the Qatar World Cup hasn't hurt ratings in the US, Canada, France, Japan, and the UK; Fox's viewership is up 78% from 2018
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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