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12:20 PM ET, April 14, 2023

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Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Parlement Technologies sells Parler to digital media company Starboard, which plans to temporarily shut down the right-wing social network ahead of a relaunch  —  Social network popular with conservatives will be sold for an undisclosed amount and overhauled for a relaunch
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions  —  Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation?  —  It is fair to say that Substack …
Brian Stelter / Vanity Fair:
Examining the key “reckless disregard” question in the Dominion-Fox trial, set to start next week; a source says Fox pursued settlement talks multiple times  —  It's time for Dominion Voting Systems to make its case against Fox News in its $1.6 billion defamation suit.
Zac Ntim / Deadline:
French fashion house Saint Laurent is launching a production banner headed by its creative director Anthony Vaccarello, with two short films debuting at Cannes  —  French fashion house Saint Laurent is moving into the world of cinema with an official production banner headed by house creative director Anthony Vaccarello.
Discussion: WWD, The Wrap and Variety
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
A look at the Economist's aloof and listenable podcasts, which averaged ~25M downloads in March 2023 and have ~5M listeners, as the content gets more ambitious  —  It's hard to argue that there's much fresh energy among news podcasts of late.  The genre's modern generation largely came …
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Die Zeit publishes texts showing Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner tried to use Bild to influence Germany's last election, attacked climate activism, and more  —  Mathias Döpfner's reported comments on climate, Muslims and east Germany - and his apparent political manoeuvring - create shock waves
Financial Times:
Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal if they use copyrighted material  —  Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material  —  The European parliament …
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Sensor Tower: Twitter's top 50 advertisers spent $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, Volkswagen, and Stellantis haven't returned  —  Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies …
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Comcast invests $200M in James Murdoch and Uday Shankar's Bodhi Tree Systems, which will use the money to buy a small stake in India's Viacom18  —  Comcast, the conglomerate behind NBCUniversal and the Sky European TV giant, is to invest $200 million in Bodhi Tree Systems …
Discussion: TechCrunch and Deadline
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives  —  Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum.
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Screen Australia study: of 361 TV drama programs, 1 in 4 had entirely Anglo-Celtic main casts; First Nations main characters rose from 4.8% to 7.2% in 5 years  —  There is a lot of work still to be done to reflect Australia's population on television screens, diversity report says
 
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
The New York Times, Politico, and seven other outlets sue for copies of the January 6 Capitol riot surveillance videos that Kevin McCarthy gave to Fox News
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy defends cutting 400 staff, saying the move was necessary to keep the service viable, and is meeting with creators to address their worries
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Russia says that a prisoner swap for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich can only be considered after a trial, despite the US pushing for his release
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Insider plans to form a group to test ways to incorporate AI; the EIC says the outlet doesn't plan to include disclosures about using AI on individuals articles