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3:40 PM ET, July 2, 2023

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts 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 via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, 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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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
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
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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
Manori Ravindran / Variety:
IPSO says Jeremy Clarkson made a “pejorative and prejudicial” reference to Meghan Markle's sex in a column in The Sun, which must publish a front-page statement
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The Moscow Times:
Reports: Yevgeny Prigozhin shuts down Patriot Media Group, and Roskomnadzor blocks several of its news outlets; Prigozhin has not confirmed or denied the claims
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
Email: ad platform MediaMath, which had raised $600M and was reportedly valued at $1B+ in 2018, plans to file for bankruptcy, after acquisition talks fell apart
Reuters:
Burkina Faso suspends LCI, saying the French TV news channel's April 2023 report on an insurgency lacked objectivity, the latest in its foreign media crackdown
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
Unionized G/O media employees blast the company, which owns The Onion, Quartz, The Root, Deadspin, and more, over its plans to test AI-created content next week
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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