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2:50 PM ET, April 21, 2023

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Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters:
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, and Xinhua  —  Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which implies government involvement …
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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter emails advertisers to say they must now have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads  —  As Twitter's legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network's new paid-for verification system …
Dara Kerr / NPR:
Sources: Twitter removed “visibility filtering rules”, known as “shadow bans”, for government accounts and state-affiliated media from Russia, China, and Iran  —  Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
Hillary Frey / Slate:
A defense of Jonah Peretti, who kept BuzzFeed News going longer than others would have, while Facebook's pivot from news caused his creation's downfall  —  I heard about BuzzFeed News shutting down right before it hit Twitter.  Word travels fast among industry old-timers like myself, and we try to keep each other in the loop.
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New York Times:
Memo: BuzzFeed shuts down News and cuts ~180 jobs, or ~15% of its staff; Jonah Peretti: “we will have a single news brand in HuffPost, which is profitable”  —  BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize but never made money, is “beginning the process of closing,” the company's founder …
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
The legacy of BuzzFeed News has two parts: brilliant stories and alumni, and also the tragedy of mismanagement and impossible, ceaseless exponential growth
Ben Smith / Semafor:
The end of BuzzFeed News signals a vast shift in digital media: the old way of thinking about news as text distributed primarily on social media has passed
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed CRO Edgar Hernandez and COO Christian Baesler are leaving as part of the company's cuts, following advertisers pulling back; BZFD closes down 19.71%
Alastair Reid / @ajreid:
[Thread] At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, journalists debate the shifting value of social platforms including Twitter and Facebook  —  Outrageous setting for this powerhouse panel here at #ijf23 with @CharlieBeckett @emilybell @mathewi and @mitrakalita. What now for journalism as the platforms move on? https://twitter.com/...
Hsiuwen Liu / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists in Hong Kong, often veterans who had worked at closed outlets like Apple Daily, keep producing independent media despite strict government rules  —  Hong Kong Court News, an online outlet that debuted at the start of the year, operates out of a rented coworking space in Wong Chuk Hang …
Discussion: @ifjglobal
Bloomberg:
Sources: Hasbro is in talks with Entertainment One founder Darren Throop to sell most of the film and TV studio's assets back to him, backed by PE firm CVC  —  Hasbro Inc. is in talks with Entertainment One founder Darren Throop to sell most of the film and TV studio's assets back to him, according to people familiar with the matter.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use  —  If young Metro don't trust you, I'm gonna... tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation.  —  The AI Drake track …
Todd Shields / Bloomberg Law:
A US appeals court declines to force the FCC to speed up a decision to approve or deny Standard General's proposed purchase of TV broadcaster Tegna  —  Share To:  —  A court declined to speed regulatory consideration of Standard General LP's proposed purchase of TV broadcaster Tegna Inc. …
 
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Lachlan Murdoch drops his defamation lawsuit against the publisher of Crikey over a 2022 article that called the Murdochs Trump's “unindicted co-conspirators”
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The family of former F1 racer Michael Schumacher plans to take legal action against German magazine Die Aktuelle for a fake interview generated by an AI chatbot
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News host Dan Bongino says he is leaving after unsuccessful contract extension talks, ending his shows Unfiltered with Dan Bongino and Canceled in the USA
 

 
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Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Filing: Apple asks to participate in the remedial phase of Google's US antitrust case, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements

Bloomberg:
Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace approves lifting its ban on “certain widely used foreign platforms”, naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps

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