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11:50 PM ET, December 13, 2022

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Platformer:
Casey Newton plans to use Twitter only to share new Platformer posts and won't break Twitter news with tweets anymore, as other big voices leave the service  —  PLUS: Why it's time to start leaving Twitter behind  —  On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted a vague warning: “the bots are in for a surprise tomorrow.”
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Platformer:
Sources: Twitter is considering forcing all users to opt in to personalized ads and share their location data but may let Blue users opt out of personalized ads  —  Agree to personalize your ads — or else  —  A month ago, when Elon Musk's Twitter first set out to revamp the Twitter Blue subscription …
Washington Post:
Urvi Dugar / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Twitter Blue subscribers will see half the number of ads as non-subscribers and that the company plans to offer a higher tier with no ads in 2023
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on closing the Tumblr deal, profitability, content moderation, Apple's rules, Twitter, lessons for Elon Musk, and more  —  What can Elon learn from Tumblr?  —  We have to talk about Twitter, right?  Elon Musk bought it.
John Raby / Associated Press:
Three Charleston Gazette-Mail reporters in West Virginia say they were fired for publicly criticizing their company president's interview with an ex-coal CEO  —  Three reporters from a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in West Virginia say they have been fired after publicly criticizing …
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Jeff Zucker joins RedBird and IMI's new joint venture as CEO, where he will deploy $1B to build, buy, and invest in sports, media, and entertainment entities  —  New venture is partnership between International Media Investments and RedBird, part owner of Boston Red Sox and LeBron James's entertainment company
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles launch The Free Press, hiring 10 full-time employees and more than 12 contractors to publish Substack newsletters and podcasts  —  Bari Weiss, the New York Times columnist turned independent newsletter writer, has hired ten full-time employees and over a dozen contractors …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: Post News is seeking to raise $50M at a $250M valuation, telling investors the site has activated 100K+ accounts and users bought thousands of articles  —  Exit Content Preview  —  Post News, an upstart Twitter alternative led by former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, is seeking …
Discussion: @donlday and @maghielse
Financial Times:
Elliott Management and others buy Nielsen's debt, propping up Elliott's $16B acquisition and leaving the firm more exposed to the TV ratings provider's fortunes  —  Investment by group comes weeks after it spent $1bn buying junk bonds tied to its takeover of Citrix
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The US Supreme Court asks the Biden administration to weigh in on lyrics website Genius' attempt to revive a lawsuit over Google's alleged theft of its work  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the Biden administration to weigh in on song-lyric website Genius' attempt to revive a lawsuit over Google's alleged theft of its work.
Tom Tapp / Deadline:
Allen Media Group's ad-supported streaming service Local Now plans to add local PBS stations that reach audiences in 300+ markets and the PBS Kids 24/7 channel  —  EXCLUSIVE: Allen Media Group's free streaming service for local news and entertainment Local Now announced today a partnership …
 
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