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Will Sommer / Washington Post:
GQ pulls an article critical of David Zaslav after extensive edits following, sources say, complaints from a Zaslav associate — The writer said he asked to have his byline removed after GQ made extensive changes after publication. The magazine removed the story instead.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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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@frankstrovel, @eARCwelder@mastodon.social, Mashable, The Messenger and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Randy Thanthong-Knight / Bloomberg:
The Canadian government, media company Quebecor, and cable TV operator Cogeco say they are suspending advertising on Facebook and Instagram — The Canadian government is suspending advertisement on Facebook and Instagram in response to Meta Platforms Inc.'s plan to end news availability on its platforms in the country.
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@pablorodriguez, CBC News, CTV News, National Post, CP24 and Cartt.ca
James Ball / Rolling Stone:
A journalist details efforts by the DOJ and the FBI to pressure him and three other journalists to cooperate with the US prosecution of Julian Assange — The prosecution of the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is already a threat to a free media — the justice department's campaign …
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@rollingstone and @johnsimpsonnews
Maria Sherman / Associated Press:
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. says that music containing AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy, but the AI portion will not be considered — 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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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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Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast and @theanthonydavis
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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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ireland plans two independent, root and branch investigations of national broadcaster RTE, after a scandal over excess payments to presenter Ryan Tubridy — After a scandal that rocked Ireland in recent days over national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE) …
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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