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3:40 PM ET, December 19, 2022

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Twitter backtracks and Elon Musk apologizes after saying the service would remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on Facebook, Mastodon, and others  —  Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.
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Brian Fung / CNN:
Twitter deletes @TwitterSupport's thread and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  Twitter deleted its controversial new policy on Sunday evening that had banned links to certain other social media platforms, less than 24 hours after the policy's initial introduction.
James B. Stewart / New York Times:
A profile of CNN's chief executive Chris Licht, whose first major act was killing CNN+, as he attempts to reverse CNN's revenue and ratings slump in 2022  —  The network's chief executive knew the job would not be easy.  But this hard?  —  When Chris Licht told his boss, Stephen Colbert …
Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
Twitter reactivates Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz's account; Elon Musk says it was a temporary suspension due to “prior doxxing”  —  😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫  —  Earlier tonight, Elon Musk suspended my Twitter account.
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days”
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
By using flimsy, absurd excuses for banning journalists' Twitter accounts, Elon Musk and his buddies reveal themselves as hypocrites who lack principles
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The European Commission sends Meta a statement of objections for alleged antitrust breaches over tying Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading terms  —  Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a complaint from European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it's unfairly squeezing …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Investigation: six Alabama and Florida outlets that attacked critics of power companies have financial ties to a consulting firm working with the utilities  —  NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Profile of Bari Weiss, who recently cofounded The Free Press and was allowed by Musk to nose around Twitter's internal docs but has since been blocked by Musk  —  Last Monday, Bari Weiss asked me what my angle was in writing about her.  I told her I wondered whether, showered with adulation …
Kathryn VanArendonk / Vulture:
TV has no consumer-facing content preservation organization, like Criterion, making the disappearance of shows from streaming services an even greater loss  —  Recently, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun quietly and not so quietly removing titles from its streaming platform HBO Max.
Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:
A profile of sportswriter Grant Wahl, who helped elevate soccer, particularly women's soccer, in the US through his work spanning over two decades  —  The indefatigable sportswriter from Kansas knew that the power of the global game extended far beyond the field of play.
Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Mary Annaise Heglar, co-host of climate podcast Hot Take, on evolving climate coverage, its key criticisms, problems with solutions reporting, and more  —  EACH MONTH, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward.
Discussion: @coveringclimate
 
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CNN:
Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, who was known for his challenging interviews, died of cancer at 60
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces Courses in India, letting teachers post videos and reading materials for free or for a fee, in several regional languages, rolling out “soon”
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Bloomberg:
Sources and analysis: Twitter's Community Notes does not address divisive lies; 30K+, or ~96%, of fact-checking contributed by the community are not displayed
Alex Cranz / The Verge:
Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming services scale back on experimental content that caters to smaller audiences, amid rising costs and increased competition
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how Bob Iger undermined Bob Chapek before returning as Disney's CEO, in a bruising, yearslong power struggle worthy of the storyteller company
James Hercher / AdExchanger:
A look at Performance Max, Google's black box ad product for all its owned media that can't break down by price, ad format, media channel, or creative elements