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3:25 PM ET, December 6, 2022

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Brian Fung / CNN:
Meta threatens to consider removing news from its platforms if Congress passes Senator Klobuchar's “ill-considered” Journalism Competition and Preservation Act  —  Facebook owner Meta threatened to remove news content from its platforms on Monday following reports that US lawmakers …
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: EU privacy regulators rule that Meta's TOS should not require that users agree to personalized ads based on their online activity; Meta can appeal  —  EU privacy regulators say Facebook and Instagram shouldn't use their terms of service to require users to accept ads based on their digital activity
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Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times:
Latvia revokes the broadcasting license of Russian independent TV channel Dozhd, aka TV Rain, in exile since February, citing “threats to national security”  —  An unscripted comment by a news host has cost a major independent TV outlet its license in Latvia and put a focus on the public role of Russian exiles in the war.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
General Electric buys 22 full-page and five partial-page color ads in The New York Times, the first time one advertiser has taken over its entire print edition  —  The New York Times on Tuesday unveiled a unique version of its weekday print paper featuring more than two dozen ads from just one advertiser — General Electric.
NewsGuard:
Analysis: the US had 1,202 partisan-backed news sites masquerading as local news outlets as of November 2022, vs. 1,230 daily newspapers left in the country  —  NewsGuard has now identified 1,202 “pink slime” sites masquerading as local news publishers at a time when there are only 1,230 daily local newspapers left in the U.S.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
HBO Max returns to Amazon's Prime Video Channels in the US, after losing ~5M subscribers following the two companies failing to reach a deal in September 2021  —  Under a new deal between Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon that extends at least through the end of 2024, customers who subscribe …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with analyst Julia Alexander on Bob Chapek's missteps, including reorganizing Disney and his subscriber focus, how Bob Iger can course correct, and more  —  The best of Bobs, the worst of Bobs.  —  Today, we need to talk about Bob.  Two Bobs, actually: Bob Iger …
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Maria Bustillos / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Internet Archive launched Democracy's Library in November, offering a searchable repository of global government publications, a useful tool for reporters  —  A report on the rare minerals revealed under the melting ice in Greenland.  Forms for applying for an “investor visa” in Italy.
StreetInsider.com:
Filing: BuzzFeed plans to lay off ~12% of its staff, citing the economy, its Complex Media acquisition, and the audience shift to short-form, vertical video  —  Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium.  Claim your 1-week free trial here.  —  BuzzFeed (NASDAQ: BZFD) …
 
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
AAM: top 25 US magazines on Apple News+ had a combined circulation of 1.3M in H1 2022, up 6% YoY but down 18% from H2; People fell 36% YoY, New Yorker grew 75%
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Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
Engine Vision Media, founded by lawyers Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas, acquires Los Angeles Magazine, Pasadena, and Orange Coast, a source says for $6M+ in cash
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Perry Michael Simon / AllAccess.com:
Norm Pattiz, the founder of radio syndicator Westwood One and podcast network PodcastOne as well as a National Radio Hall of Fame 2009 honoree, dies at 79
Washington Post:
Filing: Rupert Murdoch will be deposed remotely on December 13 and 14 in Dominion's $1.6B defamation lawsuit against Fox News; Lachlan was deposed on December 5
Ina Fried / Axios:
Unlike Getty Images, Adobe plans to sell stock images made by artists using generative AI tools like DALL-E, but requires that the images be labeled as such
 

 
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple unveils $999+ 11" and $1,299+ 13" iPad Pros, with M4, an OLED Ultra Retina XDR screen, up to 1,600 nits; the 13" is Apple's thinnest product yet, at 5.1mm

Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN:
Memo: Microsoft's Xbox division to shut down multiple Bethesda studios and consolidate teams to prioritize high-impact titles and invest in Bethesda's portfolio

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
UK and US authorities identify and charge the leader of the LockBit ransomware gang, a 31-year-old Russian national; the US also issued sanctions against him

 
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