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Kris Holt / Engadget:
Twitter claims advanced notice about rate limiting would have allowed bad actors to evade detection and says rate limiting had a “minimal” effect on advertising — The company claims bad actors could otherwise have changed their strategies. — Twitter has been even more of a mess …
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitter staff say that removing legacy APIs to prevent data scraping broke TweetDeck and Twitter plans to move users to “a new, improved version of TweetDeck” — Twitter is officially launching its “new” version of TweetDeck to everyone, according to a tweet from Twitter's support account …
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@twittersupport:
Twitter says that in 30 days users must pay for Blue to use TweetDeck, the new version of which supports full composer functionality, Spaces, polls, and more
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read limits; home timelines still load
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features — Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads …
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Adrian Weckler / Independent.ie:
The Irish DPC says Instagram's Threads, which faces stricter data privacy rules in the EU than in the US or UK, will not be launched in the EU “at this point” — Meta's new Twitter rival wants to suck Instagram users' data, including health, location, search history and sensitive information, into the new Threads service.
Mary Yang / The Guardian:
A profile of Jesse Watters, who is taking Tucker Carlson's Fox slot and has drawn backlash for amplifying racial stereotypes, xenophobia, and sexist rhetoric — Promotion of Fox host to Carlson's former slot signals network move towards blurring lines between news and entertainment
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The Daily Beast and @theanthonydavis
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
Armed masked men attack and seriously injure prominent Russian journalist Yelena Milashina, who writes for Novaya Gazeta, and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya — Armed masked men attacked and seriously injured a prominent female Russian journalist and a lawyer in the Russian region …
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling — Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed …
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noyb.eu, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, @maxschrems, @maxschrems, @gabrielazanfir, @krisshrishak, @privacymatters, @f_kaltheuner, @ProjectFearlessness …, New York Times, @iuculano@masto.ai, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Reuters, @gulovsen@mastodon.social, @karlemilnikka@mastodon.social, @jwildeboer@social … and news.ycombinator.com, more at Techmeme »
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
The National Music Publishers Association: in February 2023, Spotify had 44.4M US subscribers, Apple Music had 32.6M, Amazon Music had 29.3M, YouTube had 8.5M — MBW's Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry.
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Music Ally, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Maria Sherman / Associated Press:
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. says music with AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy, but the AI portion will not be considered for the award — Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry.
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Insider and New York Daily News
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
The Council of Europe's Audiovisual Observatory finds that US-based companies own ~20% of the EU's largest TV broadcasters and 33% of on-demand video services — Nearly half of all children's television channels in Europe are owned by American media brands, according to the findings of a new report.
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Broadband TV News, Thanks:@matthewkeyslive
Kenny Torrella / Vox:
Madre Brava: from January 2020 to June 2022, less than 0.5% of climate change news articles in the UK, the US, and the EU mentioned meat or livestock's impact — The burger-sized hole in climate change coverage, explained. — Last weekend, Elon Musk posted one of his more outrageously false tweets …
Kendra Clark / The Drum:
A look at MediaMath's demise, caused by failed acquisition talks, a mountain of debt, and poor leadership decisions, like hiring the CEO of another failed DSP — The adtech company filed for bankruptcy on Friday, leaving investors, staff, customers and ecosystem partners in limbo.
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Digiday, @kendraeclark, Wall Street Journal, @jeromysonne and MediaPost
Financial Times:
A look at Reliance's JioCinema, which had 400M+ IPL cricket stream viewers, acquired content rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India — Asia's richest man is on a mission to transform Reliance Industries into a digital group — India's richest man Mukesh Ambani …
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