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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
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Alex Barasch / New Yorker:
A look at Mattel Films, part of US toy giant Mattel, which has licensed IP for 45 movies, starting with Greta Gerwig's Barbie, following similar moves by Hasbro — In an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO.
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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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@michellemanafy and @susanthesquark
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
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@caulfieldtim
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
DirecTV removes 159 Nexstar-owned stations, including ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, after the companies failed to reach a new distribution deal by the July 2 deadline — Millions of DirecTV customers lost access to Nexstar Media Group channels after the two companies failed to agree to a new distribution contract by a Sunday night deadline.
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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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@jbflint, @benmillermke, @davidclinchnews, @wsj, @jbflint, @jbflint, Above the Line and The Verge
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Thousands of performers, who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago, are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
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@kailashconcepts, @thatkirstylang, @mhbergen, @pkedrosky and @mayazi
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.
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The Wrap, @davidgura, @davidfolkenflik, The Week and The Guardian
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
City AM, a free London business newspaper, puts itself up for sale, and says it has an online readership of 1.8M to 2M per month and print circulation of 67,714 — City AM, a free business-focused newspaper in London, is seeking a buyer as part of fundraising discussions, it announced Monday.
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The Guardian and Press Gazette
Peter White / Deadline:
Netflix starts streaming HBO's Insecure and says other shows, including Band of Brothers and The Pacific, will launch on its service as part of a deal with WBD — The HBO comedy drama launched on the streamer service earlier today, after Deadline revealed the surprising move last month.
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ofcom launches a broadcast standards investigations into GB News and Rupert Murdoch's TalkTV after receiving complaints about politicians serving as newsreaders — U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched broadcast standards investigations into TalkTV, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and GB News after receiving complaints.
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Press Gazette, The Desk, The Guardian, Broadband TV News, Deadline and Bloomberg
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
ITN appoints Debbie Ramsay, the commissioning editor for news and current affairs at Channel 4, as the new editor of 5 News, succeeding Cait Fitzsimons — Ramsay will take over the programme in the autumn. — ITN has appointed Debbie Ramsay as the new editor of 5 News, succeeding Cait Fitzsimons.
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@tinadaheley, @ayshahtull, @charlenewhite, @nelsabbey, @genellealdred, @deb_ramz, @_caitfitz, @marcusryder and @jasminedotiwala
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