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4:50 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 policy webpage detailing its controversial new policy to ban accounts for promoting other social media platforms  —  Twitter deleted its controversial new policy on Sunday evening that had banned links to certain other social media platforms …
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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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 …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Netflix's global head of film Scott Stuber on the service's strategy for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the theatrical movie business, and more  —  Good afternoon from Mexico City, where I have eaten a taco an hour since I landed.  This will be my last newsletter of the year …
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.
Owen Walker / Financial Times:
Credit Suisse sues the Swiss finance blog Inside Paradeplatz, asking for the removal of 52 articles published from July 27, when the bank got a new CEO  —  Credit Suisse has launched a lawsuit against a popular Zurich finance blog over what it claims are unvetted and abusive comments hosted under stories …
 
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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”
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
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Alex Cranz / The Verge:
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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