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12:00 PM ET, October 6, 2023

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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Reliable Sources review: ads by Amazon, Samsung, Cox, Starz, Ad Age, and others appeared on white supremacist outlet VDare's X account; Starz ends X advertising  —  The Elon-Musk owned social media platform, X, confidently claims that it harnesses industry-leading brand safety tools to ensure …
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Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Source: Linda Yaccarino told the banks that funded Elon Musk's Twitter takeover that X is testing three premium service tiers that vary how many ads are shown  —  - CEO Linda Yaccarino discusses plan in briefing to lenders  — X advertisers have been returning, but with smaller budgets
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
EIC Emma Tucker makes speedy Wall Street Journal changes: 15+ veteran editors and writers have left in recent months, and she ousted the chief enterprise editor  —  Emma Tucker, the top editor, is moving away from some of the organization's traditions.  —  Last month, Emma Tucker …
Australian Financial Review:
News Corp sold its shares in Australian gambling startup Betr, after investing more than $70M in 2022, but will continue carrying Betr ads  —  News Corp quietly sold its shares in Betr, the wagering start-up run by wealthy bookmaker Matthew Tripp, just four months after it launched despite injecting …
Sahil Patel / The Information:
Source: Meta is paying several top creators millions of dollars each over multiple years for nonexclusive use of their likeness in its text-based AI characters  —  Meta Platforms' decision to create artificial intelligence characters based on the likeness of some of the most famous people …
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Legal drama Suits, which streams on Netflix and Peacock, hits 12 weeks at No. 1 on Nielsen's rankings, setting a streaming record for the most weeks at the top  —  Netflix's ‘Virgin River’ and the debut of ‘The Little Mermaid’ on Disney+ also rack up strong numbers.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A coalition of media outlets, including C-SPAN and the AP, seeks video and audio access to the courtroom for Donald Trump's election conspiracy trial in 2024  —  A coalition of media outlets, including C-SPAN, CBS News, ABC News and CNN, are seeking some sort of video and audio access …
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Analytics firm Guideline: X's monthly US ad revenue has declined 55%+ YoY in each of the 10 months after Elon Musk's October 2022 takeover through August 2023  —  Monthly U.S. ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55% year-over-year each month since billionaire Elon Musk bought …
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Natalie Korach / The Wrap:
X starts removing preview headlines from posts with article links, showing only the lead image and domain name; Elon Musk mentioned the change in August 2023
 
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CNN's Jake Tapper and former Washington Post editor Marty Baron discuss Felicia Sonmez's Kobe Bryant tweet and the ongoing issues of journalists on social media
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How Reach uses WhatsApp Communities, where the outlet has a ~90% open rate across 80 groups, and Channels, which allow more people but notifications are opt-in
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The Hindu:
The actions on NewsClick by India's government, which has shown itself to be intolerant of critical journalism, smack of extreme vendetta and brazen harassment
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast-Charter joint venture Xumo launches its first streaming set-top box for new Spectrum video customers, coming to Comcast's Xfinity Internet users “soon”