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1:10 AM ET, April 23, 2023

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Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters:
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, 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 its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media  —  Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
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Alastair Reid / @ajreid:
[Thread] At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, journalists debate the shifting value of social networks, especially Twitter and Facebook
Hillary Frey / Slate:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti innovated and kept BuzzFeed News going longer than others would have, only for Facebook's pivot away from news to kill his creation  —  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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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
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
BuzzFeed News' legacy has two components: brilliant stories and alumni plus digital media's tragic mismanagement of unrealistic, impossible exponential growth
Alan Baldwin / Reuters:
Funke media group sacks the editor of German magazine Die Aktuelle, which published an AI-generated interview with Michael Schumacher  —  The publishers of a German magazine that ran an ‘interview’ with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked the editor and apologised to the Formula One great's family.
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A look at sports media rights money with cable TV's rise and fall, and why leagues and franchises worry they won't replicate the reach and revenue of peak cable  —  Television has changed the course of sports as long as it has existed, in ways both sweeping and specific.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN announces King Charles, a weekly primetime program with hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley, expected to launch in fall 2023 and air on Wednesdays  —  Gayle King and Charles Barkley will help break traditional barriers around news programming later this year when they launch “King Charles,” a new weekly primetime program for CNN.
Alex Williams / New York Times:
Gail Christian, who broke barriers and rose to prominence at NBC News and PBS as a Black woman on-air correspondent and news executive, died on April 12 at 83  —  An on-air career seemed unlikely for a Black woman in the 1970s.  It didn't help that she had been imprisoned for armed robbery.
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr is causing transactional disputes and increasing client and freelancer mistrust  —  While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms.
 
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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
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Lachlan Murdoch drops his defamation lawsuit against the publisher of Crikey over a June 2022 article calling the Murdochs Trump's “unindicted co-conspirators”