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6:30 PM ET, December 15, 2022

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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment  —  Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
The Washington Post plans to cut “a single digit percentage” of its workforce in Q1 2023; Fred Ryan told staff that new hires mean the newsroom will not shrink  —  New York CNN —  —  The Washington Post will conduct layoffs in the coming year as it reorients itself for the future …
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money  —  For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.
New York Times:
Leaked emails: VGTRK, Russia's largest state broadcaster, worked with security services to mine right-wing US and Chinese media to craft its Ukraine narrative  —  Leaked emails detail how Russia's biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation's security services, mined right-wing American news …
Ryan Mac / New York Times:
Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”  —  The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.
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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter plans to shut down its newsletter platform Revue and delete all related data on January 18, 2023, after acquiring the company in January 2021
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
A profile of political journalist Ron Brownstein, who works from Los Angeles for The Atlantic and CNN, focusing on long-term patterns instead of daily gossip  —  The man who is perhaps the sharpest observer of America's political divides lives not in Washington but Los Angeles.
Bari Weiss / The Free Press:
Bari Weiss describes sifting through Twitter internal archives using dates and names as search terms and says her team didn't cherry-pick files to fit an agenda  —  'I'm not going to spend $44 billion to reinstate a satire blog,' Elon Musk said.  ‘I did it because I was worried about the future of civilization.’
Andrew Oxford / Santa Fe Reporter:
Current and former Gannett employees at Gannett's New Mexico newspapers detail just how disastrous years of layoffs and budget cuts have been  —  National newspaper behemoth's slashing tactics leave fewer journalist covering New Mexico and readers adrift in their communities
John Ourand / Sports Business Journal:
E.W. Scripps forms Scripps Sports to bid on media rights, maybe including the NWSL, to broadcast matches on ION Media, pay TV, and direct-to-consumer platforms  —  The E.W. Scripps Co., has emerged as a new bidder for local sports rights, giving MLB, NBA and NHL teams a local broadcast alternative to traditional RSNs.
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Donald Trump sues the Pulitzer Prize board over an allegedly defamatory statement defending awards for stories on Russian interference in the 2016 US elections  —  Former President Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize board on Wednesday for defamation, arguing a statement by the group that concluded …
 
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Syrah Vivien J. Inocencio / CNN Philippines:
Frank Cimatu becomes the third Rappler journalist convicted of cyber libel, over a Facebook post, going to prison for up to five years, five months, and 11 days
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
FuboTV says its service experienced a cyberattack on December 14 during the France-Morocco 2022 World Cup semifinal that caused a multi-hour outage
Marie-Danielle Smith / Canadian Press:
Canada's House of Commons passes a bill that requires web giants to pay media outlets, and Meta again threatens removing news content from Facebook in Canada
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Senator Tom Cotton blocks the PRESS Act, which would shield reporters from having to reveal sources, arguing they must instead face “scrutiny and consequences”
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