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12:15 PM ET, December 14, 2022

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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 …
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 …
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.
Max Tani / Semafor:
RSF: a record number of 533 journalists, including 78 women, are currently detained globally, and 56+ journalists were killed on work in 2022, up 19% from 2021  —  A record number of journalists — 533 — are currently being detained worldwide, according to a new report from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) first shared with Semafor.
Céline Gounder / Fútbol with Grant Wahl:
Grant Wahl's wife Céline Gounder says the US soccer journalist died of an undetected ascending aortic aneurysm and there was nothing nefarious about his death  —  First and foremost, on behalf of myself and our family, I want to express our deepest gratitude for the outpouring of support …
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service using its new +play marketplace a one year Netflix subscription for free  —  Amazon, Apple and YouTube woo customers with streaming marketplaces  —  Verizon Communications Inc. VZ -0.24%decrease …
Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
NPR cancels its 2023 summer internship program, citing economic challenges; NPR's internship page says about one-sixth of its current staff started as interns  —  I hope you all had a great weekend.  We have a lot to dive into today, so let's get to it: NPR cuts its summer internship program …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
HBO removes Westworld, The Nevers, and other series from HBO Max as part of Warner Bros. Discovery's plans to cut costs, including by saving on residuals  —  “The Nevers” has been canceled halfway through its first season by HBO.  The Joss Whedon-created sci-fi drama will be pulled …
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.”
NBC News:
The SEC charges eight influencers with securities fraud, alleging they used Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks from January 2020 as part of a $100M scheme  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight social media influencers with securities fraud, saying Wednesday …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting  —  Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users.
 
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