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11:10 AM ET, April 20, 2023

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Steven Monacelli / @stevanzetti:
[Thread] Twitter suspends Wired's Dell Cameron, saying he broke hacked material rules, by reporting about a hack of anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account  —  WOW: @dellcam has been suspended by Twitter after reporting about the hack of Matt Walsh's Twitter account https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Microsoft plans to drop Twitter support from its ad platform on April 25; users won't be able to access or manage Twitter accounts through Microsoft's tool  —  Yet another big B2B service passes on paying for Twitter's new high-priced API.  —  Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform.
Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
Sources: the prospect of fired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg's secret recordings being played during trial helped push Fox News to its Dominion settlement  —  The prospect of a fired Fox News producer's secret recordings being played during trial helped push the conservative network …
Discussion: @timobrien
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Sources and the mediator detail how Fox and Dominion settled, after Dominion notified Fox that Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson were among its first witnesses  —  Veteran mediator Jerry Roscoe was on a relaxing river cruise from Budapest to Bucharest celebrating his 70th birthday on Sunday when he received an urgent phone call.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Imgur plans to ban explicit images from May 15; it will allow artistic nudity but expects problems as it switches to a mix of automatic and human moderation  —  Image hosting platform Imgur is set to ban explicit images on its platform from May 15.  The company updated its terms of service …
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Financial Times:
Internal presentation: Google plans to deploy generative AI in ads, allowing advertisers to supply creative material which will be “remixed” to create campaigns  —  Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products
Carl Sullivan / Flipboard:
Flipboard adds Mastodon accounts corresponding with editorial “desks” to curate content on four topics: news, tech, culture, and science  —  Flipboard joined the Fediverse a couple of months ago when we announced our Mastodon integration and launched our own community …
Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Two reporters in North Carolina were convicted on April 19 of trespassing following their 2021 arrests while covering a homeless encampment; they plan to appeal  —  Two local reporters in North Carolina were convicted Wednesday of misdemeanor trespassing after being arrested while covering …
Rosa Flores / CNN:
County official Mark Jennings resigns after an Oklahoma newspaper released audio allegedly of him and others talking about killing journalists and Black people  —  An Oklahoma county commissioner allegedly heard on a recording of local officials that included remarks about lynching Black people and killing journalists has resigned.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
For Fox Corp., which ended 2022 with $4.1B in “cash and cash equivalents” on hand, $787.5M is a bargain to avoid more embarrassment and continue its sleazy ways  —  For the media mogul, the massive Dominion settlement fee is just the cost of doing business.
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Washington Post:
The Fox-Dominion settlement is the largest publicly disclosed one in a US defamation case yet; sources: Fox doesn't have to make an on-air correction or apology
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CNBC:
Fox Corp and its cable networks agree to pay $787.5M to Dominion Voting Systems to settle the defamation lawsuit over Fox's lies about Dominion's machines
 
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Kantar: UK households canceled 167K paid streaming service subscriptions in Q1 2023, taking the total down to 29.4M; Netflix was estimated to be the hardest hit
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