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Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15 — Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney eliminates its metaverse unit, cutting ~50 jobs, and ceases work on an Amazon Prime-like program integrating Disney+ and other Disney platforms — The unit, once seen as developing a new form of storytelling, had about 50 employees — Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Memo: Disney plans to start layoffs this week, the first of three rounds before the summer that will amount to 7,000 roles, as part of $5.5B in cost cutting — - Disney will begin informing employees this week that they're being laid off. — This will be the first of three rounds of cuts that will amount to 7,000 job losses.
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Zoë Schiffer / Platformer:
Documents: Twitter closely monitors and boosts ~35 accounts including Matt Yglesias, Glenn Greenwald, Noah Smith, Adrian Wojnarowski, Ben Shapiro, and @catturd2 — Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron? — Last week, Twitter began notifying users who were verified under …
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
A look at the decline of Gannett-owned The Salinas Californian, whose only original content comes from paid obits after its last reporter quit in December 2022 — When brown water overflowed the banks of the Salinas River in January, flooding thousands of acres and throwing an untold number …
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Lynette Rice / Deadline:
Paramount+ Chief Programming Officer Tanya Giles is leaving after 28 years at Paramount Global and its iterations; sources: there is no immediate replacement — EXCLUSIVE: More changes at Paramount+: Tanya Giles, the streaming platform's chief programming officer, is leaving after a combined 28 years …
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The Wrap, Variety and @bergopolis
Sewell Chan / The Texas Tribune:
The Texas Observer editors urge its board to reconsider its decision to shut down the magazine and started a GoFundMe drive to raise $200K in emergency funding — Journalists at the progressive publication expect to be laid off this week. Relations between the board and senior staff have severely eroded.
The Daily Beast:
NYT managing editors Carolyn Ryan and Marc Lacey held “tongue-lashing” meetings and sent warning letters to ~20 staffers who criticized the NYT's trans coverage — Confider reveals this week that Times brass have hauled the staffers who signed an open letter criticizing the paper into …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Substack invites its newsletter writers to invest, along with others, aiming to raise $2M; source: the raise is an extension of Substack's $65M Series B in 2021 — Substack, the newsletter platform, will open up a community fundraising round on Tuesday, allowing writers on the platform to invest in the company.
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Aamna Mohdin / The Guardian:
Guardian owner Scott Trust apologizes for the role the newspaper's founders had in the slave trade and announces an expansion of reporting on Black communities — Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper's origins
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The Guardian, The Guardian and Eventbrite
Steve Herman / The Newsguy:
VOA's Steve Herman, who was suspended from Twitter and returned after withdrawing his appeal, explains Twitter's influence on journalists despite its many flaws — Journalists, including those who were suspended from the platform, accept the reality of the social media platform's still pervasive influence, despite its many flaws.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Digital media companies like BuzzFeed, Vice, and Vox, which focused on consolidation to counter Google and Meta, abandon rollups to focus on differentiation — - Digital media companies including BuzzFeed, Vice, Vox and Bustle Digital Group are sharpening their focus on core strengths.
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@sherman4949, @anthony, @simonowens, @sherman4949 and Media Voices, Thanks:@ashkan
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Apple plans to release Martin Scorsese's next movie Killers of the Flower Moon in theaters in partnership with Paramount Pictures before its Apple TV+ debut — Apple is the latest streamer to discover that theaters are actually kind of useful. Following a Bloomberg report last week …
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