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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”
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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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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:
Source: Meta has not prepared Threads for a European launch outside the UK, which is not fully governed by GDPR and EU privacy rules — Meta's new Twitter rival wants to suck Instagram users' data, including health, location, search history and sensitive information, into the new Threads service.
Wall Street Journal:
A look at Spill, an invite-only Twitter alternative designed as a safe destination for LGBTQ and Black people that added 100K+ users over the past three days — Designed by former Twitter employees, the app has attracted users including Questlove and garnered interest from Lizzo
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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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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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Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Russia appoints Putin's former election spokesman Andrei Kondrashov as head of state news agency TASS, replacing Sergei Mikhailov, director since 2012 — Russian President Vladimir Putin's former election spokesman has been appointed to run the state news agency TASS, according to a government order published on Wednesday.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Andy Jassy asked Amazon's Hollywood studio for detailed budgets to scrutinize ballooning costs; Amazon spent $7B on originals and other shows in 2022 — Good afternoon from Orient, New York, wherever you may be. I am spending the next month on the East Coast, so please reach out if you are around.
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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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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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 …
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