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9:15 AM ET, July 5, 2023

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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”
@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
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.
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
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.
Discussion: The Guardian
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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 …
 
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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
David Sharman / HoldtheFrontPage:
An investigation finds that a website purporting to cover local news in a UK town launched in June 2023 with 11 fake journalist profiles that used stock photos
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Brut CEO Guillaume Lacroix says the digital media startup gained 700K TikTok subscribers to reach 5.3M after its live coverage of the riots in France went viral
Bloomberg:
Sources: Alibaba is exploring options for Youku and Tudou, like moving the video streaming units to Hong Kong-listed Alibaba Pictures, as Alibaba restructures
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John Ortved / New York Times:
A history of Paper Magazine from co-founders Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits, former staff, writers, and others, as new owner Brian Calle plans its revival
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
 

 
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals

 
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