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7:20 AM ET, September 5, 2023

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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation suit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of being antisemitic, and blames the ADL for X's US ad sales drop  —  In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League.
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Email: Spotify raises the listener threshold for creators in Ambassador Ads from 100 to 1,000 over 60 days, and plans to cut ad support for white noise podcasts  —  - Ambient sound shows will no longer be eligible for certain ads  — Company raises listener threshold for ambassador ads program
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD rebrands its preschool network Boomerang to Cartoonito, available as a pay TV channel, in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa  —  “Cartoonito is Warner Bros. Discovery's biggest commitment to programming for children aged 2 to 6.”
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The UK's Channel 4 plans to enter the US market by launching two FAST channels, 4 Adventure and 4 Emergency, on Tubi, Plex, and Xumo Play later in September  —  - ‘Bardot’ Series Sells After Netflix Launch; National Cinema Day Record; SkyShowtime's ‘Codename: Annika’ Trailer; BAFTA Wales Award — Global Briefs
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Financial Times:
A look at Sony India's merger with Zee Entertainment: creating a 74-channel media powerhouse and giving Sony a 24.8% market share, compared to Disney Star's 24%  —  Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles.  Copying articles to share with others …
Eva Hartog / Politico:
Politico Europe's reporter in Moscow, expelled after 10 years working in Russia, on how journalists from Western countries are being squeezed out of the country  —  Moscow is quietly cracking down on the country's last independent observers.  —  During my 10 years as a Moscow-based journalist …
Zoe Williams / The Guardian:
An interview with Marianna Spring, the BBC's first disinformation correspondent, on her Conspiracyland podcast, online abuse becoming offline action, and more  —  The broadcaster's first disinformation correspondent spends her time pursuing trolls and dismantling conspiracy theories.
Reuters:
Malaysia says the government is in talks with Google, Meta, and others over a regulatory framework to pay news outlets for their content on online platforms  —  Malaysia said on Tuesday it is considering regulations that will make internet giants Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) …
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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.
 
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Miles Ellingham / Rolling Stone UK:
A profile of Jake Hanrahan, a former Vice reporter who in 2018 founded Popular Front, which covers global conflict via YouTube, Instagram, a podcast, and more
N Ram / Prospect Magazine:
The Hindu's former EIC says the Modi government hounding left-leaning Indian media website NewsClick is a state-engineered McCarthyite disinformation campaign
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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
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson are retiring, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's chief legal officer, will replace Adams in March

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities

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The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges
 
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