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8:45 PM ET, July 31, 2023

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
The BBC launches social.bbc, an “experimental” Mastodon server with posts from a handful of BBC accounts, and says it will try out the server for six months  —  The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on the Twitter alternative.
New York Times:
Twitter/X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the nonprofit made “troubling and baseless claims” to hurt Twitter and its ad business  —  The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …
Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
Sources: Disney hired Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, two ex-executives seen as potential successors to Bob Iger during his first stint as CEO, as advisers to Iger  —  Disney has hired two former executives who were seen as potential successors to Bob Iger during his first stint as the company's chief executive …
Matthew Keys / Fierce Wireless:
Amazon will require streaming services on Fire TV to give 30% of their ad impressions to Amazon, or in certain countries share 30% of ad revenue, from Sept. 1  —  Amazon will soon require international app developers who offer ad-supported streaming video services available to Fire TV users …
Eriq Gardner / Puck:
Sources: Trump subpoenaed Fox News for Tucker Carlson's unaired interview with a former US Capitol Police chief, as part of a lawsuit defense; Fox News refused  —  The former president is demanding the network turn over footage and communications that he could use to defend himself …
Discussion: Mediaite, Forbes and @eriqgardner
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
After a digital artist opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set, the community made a model copying his style, raising questions around open-source models  —  More popular than Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci among AI artists, Greg Rutkowski opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Content licensing organization NLA Media Access says it helped get around 700,000 stolen news articles removed in 2023 so far globally, up from 30K in 2022  —  Content farmers appear to be “getting a bit more brazen”.  —  Copyright theft affecting news publishers in the UK and around the world is …
Discussion: @pressgazette
Max Tani / Semafor:
The campaign for the US presidency is playing out across an unprecedented, fragmented new media landscape, confusing voters and political observers alike  —  The News  —  Did you catch Ron DeSantis's interview with Shawn Ryan?  How about Tim Scott's latest hit on Faithwire, or Joe Biden's chat with Will Arnett and Jason Bateman?
Feven Merid / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Media 2070's director Collette Watson on shifting cultural conditions three years after its launch, advocating for media reparations, and more  —  In 2020, a group of Black staffers at Free Press—a nonprofit that advocates for diverse, independent media ownership and equitable access …
Discussion: Free Press
Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
DoubleVerify, which offers software for digital media measurement and analytics, agrees to acquire digital ad campaign optimization company Scibids for $125M  —  DoubleVerify is acquiring Scibids, a digital campaign optimization firm.  —  The cash-and-stock transaction is valued at $125 million …
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros. Discovery reorganizes and restructures its advertising sales division, with dedicated executives for specific holding companies  —  WBD is reorganizing its ad sales leadership with executives dedicated to specific holding companies. … On Monday, the company unveiled its new structure …
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Ampere Analysis: ad tiers from Netflix, Disney, and others have collectively crossed 100M users in the US; 90%+ of Hulu subscribers are on its ad-supported tier  —  Ad-supported streaming tiers from Netflix, Disney and others have collectively surpassed 100 million users in the United States …
Discussion: Media Play News
 
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Financial Times:
Maoyan: cinemas in China increased showings of Barbie from 9,673 on July 21 to ~36,000 on July 27, in a market dominated by patriotic and male-led action films
Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter/X reinstates Kanye West's account, suspended in December 2022, and says he won't be eligible to monetize it, and ads won't appear next to his posts
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
Internal Meta emails: Facebook removed content about COVID-19 under pressure from the Biden administration, including posts claiming the virus was man-made
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