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7:50 AM ET, April 11, 2023

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Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Al Jaffee, who retired from Mad Magazine in 2020 and was the longest-working comic artist ever, dies at 102  —  For 55 years he created the fold-in (as opposed to, say, Playboy's fold-out), giving readers a satirical double-take on whatever was going on in the news or elsewhere.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: Bret Baier repeatedly proposed devoting an hour-long special to debunk US election fraud myths in November 2020, but never got an answer from Fox News  —  Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier is perhaps the best personification of Fox Corp chief Lachlan Murdoch's description …
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
The US designates Evan Gershkovich as “wrongfully detained”, enabling the State Department to exert more pressure on Russia and unlocking other resources  —  Official designation enables U.S. to press a foreign government, unlocks other resources to free detainee
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Twitter labels the @BBC account “Government Funded Media,” but not @BBCNews and other news-related accounts; the BBC asks Twitter to change the inaccurate label
James Titcomb / Telegraph:
Tests show Elon Musk's Twitter removed limits on Kremlin-linked accounts, including Putin's, with some showing in For You feeds, reversing an April 2022 policy
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Corp settles a defamation lawsuit by Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil over false 2020 US election claims made by Sidney Powell in a Lou Dobbs interview  —  Majed Khalil had sued Fox and former host Lou Dobbs in 2021 over claims made about the 2020 presidential election.
Paul Grein / Billboard:
The HFPA increases the international voters in its voting body for the 2024 Golden Globes from 87 to 215, as part of a pledge to grow the body and its diversity  —  The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has more than doubled the number of international voters in its voting body for the 2024 Golden Globe Awards.
Angela Fu / Poynter:
A look at The Coronado News, a free weekly debuted in January 2023 by Salt Lake Tribune chair Paul Huntsman for the resort city's 9,500 residents and businesses  —  The Coronado News is a free weekly delivered to 9,500 of the resort city's residents and businesses.
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
An interview with Victor Wong, Google's senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple's ATT, and more  —  To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.”  Here's an exclusive peek into how it will work.
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Sources: The White House is weighing giving social media influencers a dedicated briefing space, an unprecedented move that would give them more access to Biden  —  - Biden's digital strategy team will connect with influencers across the nation to target those who may not follow the White House …
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Tests show Twitter, which resumed political ads this year, offers incomplete data on the ads through its “disclosure” tool, missing some promoted tweets  —  The platform started accepting political ads again in January.  —  Elon Musk took over Twitter last fall with a pledge …
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Katie Cotton, who led Apple's media strategy as VP of worldwide communications for 18 years, mostly under Steve Jobs before retiring in 2014, died on April 6
Chris Moran / The Guardian:
The Guardian forms a working group to learn about generative AI after readers inquire about articles never written or published but that ChatGPT claims exist
Morgan Sung / TechCrunch:
Sex workers and others criticize Meta's Verified program for requiring creators to use their legal name as their profile display name without a way to change it
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