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Russia's Federal Security Service says it detained WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich over suspicion of “espionage in the interests of the American government” — Russia's Federal Security Service said it detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg on spying allegations …
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[Thread] The New York Times and Los Angeles Times don't plan to buy Twitter Blue for their accounts; NYT, LAT, and BuzzFeed won't reimburse reporters for Blue — New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: “We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson tells me.
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Pathmatics: the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent just $7.6M on ads in the past two months, down 89% from the $71M spent from September to October 2022 — In the weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter Inc., hundreds of advertisers paused spending on the platform, wary of the changes …
New York Times:
Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark — Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.
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Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch has a history of settling cases, having paid out ~$700M in the last 13 years, but sources say talks with Dominion in late 2022 broke down quickly — The two sides met privately but could not reach agreement on the $1.6 billion defamation claim.
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BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment — Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: to comply with EU privacy rulings, Meta plans to let users opt out of some highly personalized ads via an online form that Meta must review and approve — Facebook, Instagram parent hopes plans to alter a privacy approach that would limit the impact from EU orders — Facebook's Top Posts Were Trash.
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Twitter details new API access tiers: Free with 1.5K tweets/month at app level, Basic for $100/month, and Enterprise; old APIs will stop working within 30 days — Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API.
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Skyler Swisher / Orlando Sentinel:
Board members handpicked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee Disney World's district say Disney set up covenants blocking the new board's power for decades — LAKE BUENA VISTA — Gov. Ron DeSantis' handpicked board overseeing Disney World's government services is gearing …
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Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Wordle, which The New York Times bought in January 2022, has seen its growth plateau, but still has more DAUs than the crossword puzzle, Spelling Bee, or Sudoku — Executive producer Zoe Bell explains how the paper is keeping the phenomenon going more than a year after acquiring it.
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Invite-only Twitter alternative T2 plans to let Twitter users who are about to lose their checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its service — With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company's previous leadership …
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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Succession's last season may mark the end of “peak TV” as media groups slow spending growth; Ampere: US TV show orders were down 23% YoY in January and February — A production spree came to an abrupt halt last year as the Federal Reserve started to raise interest rates
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