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7:15 AM ET, July 3, 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 …
Slate:
Uber whistleblower and former New York Times technology opinion editor Susan Fowler Rigetti has joined Slate's Future Tense as its new editor  —  Future Tense—which is a partnership of Slate, Arizona State University, and the think tank New America—is thrilled to announce its new editor is journalist …
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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
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.
Madison Czopek / Poynter:
Poynter's MediaWise Director says Twitter's Community Notes mostly fail to fight misinformation due to requiring a “cross-ideological agreement on truth”  —  An attempt to solve ‘the problem of biased fact-checkers’ has left most Notes unseen by public, fact-checking conference is told
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A look at Geraldo Rivera's scandals and his career as a muckraking local TV news journalist turned award-winning and self-promoting network star  —  Geraldo Rivera has been a constant showman at Fox News for nearly a generation.  Now, the curtain is falling.
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.
McKenna Oxenden / New York Times:
A profile of Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel on social media, whose YouTube channel for educational children's videos has over 4.8M subscribers  —  The YouTube star of “Songs for Littles,” an online video series that pulls millions of views, says she's found her calling in encouraging children to speak.
 
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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