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Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban — - “We've always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.
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India has taken extraordinary measures to prevent citizens from seeing the BBC's Narendra Modi documentary, including cutting electricity and detaining students — NEW DELHI — The film had already been banned, the social media posts censored. Now, the students huddled without light …
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Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi — Human-rights groups say they have seen a rise in anti-Muslim material on the platform — Elon Musk's Unconventional Management Style: Former Employees Share Stories
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train online creators to grow, as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022 — Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
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Philip Stafford / Financial Times:
Chicago-based Clouty creates a tradeable index tracking revenue made by the top 500 songs streamed globally, as private equity groups invest in music catalogs — Start-up is seeking to launch futures to let streaming companies and rights owners manage risks
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCU reports Q4 revenue rose 5.9% YoY to $9.89B as EBITDA fell to $817M from $1.28B in Q4 2021; Peacock has 20M+ paid subscriptions and an EBITDA loss of $978M — Parent company Comcast reported its broadband and pay TV subscriber figures for the latest period.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike, the first prolonged newspaper strike in decades, still has no end in sight after 100 days and four negotiating sessions — When staff at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette walked off the job in October, they became the first newspaper to strike in decades.
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Connie Guglielmo / CNET:
CNET's EIC reflects on the outlet's AI use and lessons learned, like ensuring that bylines and disclosures are visible and plagiarism checks are done properly — New tools are accelerating change in the publishing industry. We're going to help shape that change.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Penske Media's new unit Penske Media Eldridge acquires Golden Globes and other awards events owner Dick Clark Productions from Todd Boehly's Eldridge Industries — Penske Media Eldridge has acquired Dick Clark Productions in a deal that marks a major expansion for the parent company of Variety …
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John Hopewell / Variety:
Roots Group, the real estate developer behind Madrid Content City, Netflix's first European production hub, plans to build a Guadalajara Content City in Mexico — MIAMI — Spain's Roots Group, the real estate developer behind Madrid Content City, the site of Netflix's European Production Hub …
Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg:
Former Fox News booker Laura Luhn sues Fox News and former co-president Bill Shine, claiming negligence because they ignored decades of Roger Ailes abusing her — Fox News and former top executive Bill Shine were sued by a onetime booker for the network who says she was subjected to decades …
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The Guardian:
Margaret Sullivan, former Washington Post columnist and New York Times public editor, joins The Guardian US as a media, politics, and culture weekly columnist — GNM press office — Beginning this week, Margaret Sullivan, one of America's leading journalists and media commentators …
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