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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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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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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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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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@mhbergen, @kailashconcepts, @thatkirstylang, @pkedrosky and @mayazi, more at Techmeme »
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 Guardian, Bloomberg, Broadband TV News and Deadline
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, The Verge and Above the Line
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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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, Fox News, The Week and The Guardian
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.
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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Peter Bale / International News Media Association:
An interview with Jeff Jarvis on his new book The Gutenberg Parenthesis, lessons from media's print era, the death of mass media, publishing's future, and more — Five-hundred-and-fifty years is quite a sweep of history for what we can call the media industry since moveable type transformed access …
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