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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping — Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
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Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits — For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …
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Matt Binder / Mashable:
Elon Musk claims Twitter login requirement is a “temporary emergency measure” as “several hundred” orgs were “scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively” — Twitter is currently blocking visitors from viewing tweets and profiles unless they are logged in.
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting all Twitter URLs to the sign in page
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting all Twitter URLs to the sign in page
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A look at WBD CEO David Zaslav's unforced errors and unpopular plans to cut costs, some of which have been by adopted by rivals like Disney and Paramount Global — Warner Bros. Discovery CEO has made unpopular cuts and missteps while dealing with a heavy debt load and changing media landscape
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Associated Press:
Austria's Wiener Zeitung, one of the oldest daily newspapers in the world, ends its print run after 320 years; a recent law change caused a sharp revenue drop — One of the world's oldest newspapers, the Vienna-based Wiener Zeitung, ended its daily print run Friday after more than three centuries.
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
ESPN lays off on-air commentators, sources say affecting ~20 personalities, including top NBA game analyst Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, and Keyshawn Johnson — ESPN is laying off some of its biggest stars in a purge that is expected to result in around 20 on-air personalities being let go Friday …
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Poynter:
Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, on restricting the NY Post laptop story, the service's prior mission for breaking news, and more — Yoel Roth explains how moderation rules evolved at Twitter, the fight against harassment and why he no longer drives a Tesla
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg settles her lawsuits against Fox, Tucker Carlson, and several executives for $12M; she had called Fox a toxic workplace — Abby Grossberg, who worked on Tucker Carlson's and Maria Bartiromo's shows, said she was harassed and set up to be a scapegoat in the Dominion defamation suit.
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Ten years after Google killed Google Reader, the team that built the much-beloved RSS app reflects on what went wrong and what could have been — Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg:
Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station Citizens' Radio, founded in 2005, suspends broadcasting after a recent bank account freeze made operations unsustainable — A Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station will air its final show Friday evening, ending nearly two decades of broadcasting due to what it called a …
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David Robb / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP agreed to extend the current film and TV contract, set to expire June 30, to July 12 to allow for continued negotiations on a new deal — UPDATED with joint statement: SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers agreed Friday to extend …
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Financial Times:
A profile of conservative French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, who is acquiring Lagardère, the parent of influential weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche — Having created a French version of Fox News, he now has one of the country's most influential newspapers in his sights
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