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9:55 AM ET, September 3, 2023

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James Clayton / BBC:
EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew further in 2023  —  Social media companies have failed to stop “large-scale” Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said.
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
A look at what's prolonging the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes as the economic damage grows: anger over pay disparities, union cohesion, and future of work worries  —  Jobs, Labor & Workplace  —  Hollywood had hoped its summer of strikes would end by Labor Day, but ongoing talks between the unions …
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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
California State Treasurer Fiona Ma sends letters to seven AMPTP member companies, urging them to negotiate “fair deals” to end the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes
J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel, and other Disney outlets go dark on Charter's Spectrum, which has nearly 15M subscribers, after failing to sign a new carriage pact  —  ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel and other outlets owned by the Walt Disney Co. have gone dark on Charter Spectrum cable systems …
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Charter says its Disney dispute “is not a typical carriage dispute”, and the cable company is prepared to “move on” from its video business if no deal is made
Associated Press:
Russian authorities declare Nobel Peace Prize winner and Novaya Gazeta EIC Dmitry Muratov to be a foreign agent, a label used to suppress critics of the Kremlin  —  Russian authorities on Friday declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to be a foreign agent …
David Robb / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA's National Board votes unanimously to send a strike authorization vote to its members in preparation of upcoming negotiations with video game firms  —  SAG-AFTRA, which has been on strike against film and scripted TV productions since July 14, is now gearing up for another possible strike …
Emilia David / The Verge:
A Gizmodo en Español writer says Gizmodo owner G/O Media shut down and laid off editors of the Spanish-language site, and is now using AI to translate articles  —  Gizmodo owner G/O Media shut down and laid off editors of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Español and is now using AI to translate articles.
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A profile of Mark Thompson, CNN's new CEO and a veteran of BBC and NYT, as Dean Baquet says his hiring indicates a strategy that goes beyond making job cuts  —  After a turbulent year under new ownership, the cable news network is hoping that Mark Thompson, a veteran of the Times and the BBC, can turn things around.
N Ram / Prospect Magazine:
The Hindu's former EIC says the Modi government's hounding of NewsClick, a left-leaning Indian media website, is a state-engineered McCarthyite campaign  —  The hounding of media website NewsClick is a form of McCarthyism, writes a former editor of the Hindu
Reuters:
Canada tries to address Big Tech's Bill C-18 concerns, saying Google and Meta would pay publishers ~$126.6M and ~$44M per year; Meta plans to keep blocking news  —  Canada unveiled draft rules on Friday for a law to compel internet giants to pay news outlets, saying it was addressing …
 
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Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The Guardian joins other publishers, including Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, and CNN, in blocking OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler
New York Times:
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Amber de Botton, the UK prime minister's director of communications, leaves, after joining in October 2022; de Botton was previously ITV News' head of UK news
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A look at Pamplonews, a WhatsApp-only daily newsletter covering cultural news in Pamplona, Spain, started in May 2023 by a former CNN en Español managing editor
WNEP-TV:
Times-Shamrock Communications is selling its four Pennsylvania dailies to Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group; the newspapers' founding family pans the sale
Chris Willman / Variety:
Taylor Swift plans to release her concert film in AMC theaters on October 13 in the US; in a first, AMC plans to act as a distributor to unaffiliated theaters
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
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