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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $8.54B, vs. $8.54B est., and global paid memberships up 10.8% YoY to 247.15M, vs. 243.88M est.; NFLX jumps 12%+ — LOS ANGELES — Netflix reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results. — Earnings: $3.73 vs $3.49 per share, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix raises its US prices for its basic plan from $9.99 to $11.99, its premium plan from $19.99 to $22.99, and some of its prices in the UK and France — Hollywood strikes will lead to lower content spending, more free cash flow this year, company says — said its efforts …
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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google cut “a small number” of Google News employees this week; an Alphabet Workers Union spokesperson estimates 40 to 45 workers lost their jobs — - Google cut at least 40 jobs in its news division this week, CNBC has learned. — The company has been downsizing in recent months …
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
Universal Music Group and BandLab form an alliance to advance their shared commitment “to ethical use of AI and the protection of artist and songwriter rights” — Universal Music Group and BandLab Technologies have announced plans for a strategic relationship concentrated on protecting artists' rights in the age of AI.
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO sue Anthropic for allegedly violating their copyrights by using song lyrics to train AI models — Partnership will be 'centered on empowering the next generation of artists, including within BandLab's global community'.
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Filing: Disney releases separate ESPN earnings results for the first time, showing profit at ESPN networks fell 20% through the first nine months of its FY 2023 — Profit at the ESPN sports networks fell 20% through the first nine months of fiscal 2023 as Walt Disney Co. provided the first peek at that business on a standalone basis.
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Experts say misinformation from “verified” pseudo-OSINT accounts on X, driven by profit and engagement, is destroying the Israel-Hamas war information ecosystem — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch:
[Thread] Media outlets keep slipping up on the Israel-Hamas war because they lack in-house OSINT teams or are wary to rely on such teams for help to break news
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Russian authorities detained RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service editor Alsu Kurmasheva on October 18, charging her with failure to register as a foreign agent — WASHINGTON, D.C. - On October 18, authorities in Kazan, Russia, detained Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) Tatar-Bashkir Service.
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Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times:
An October 6 to 9 poll of 1,003 US adults: 34% side with the actors in SAG-AFTRA's strike, 7% back the studios, 29% sympathize equally, and 30% took no position — As the Hollywood writers' strike has come to a close and the actors' walkout rages on, the American public continues to favor unions …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: YouTube is building an AI tool that lets creators record audio using famous musicians' voices and seeking major record labels' rights to train the tool — - YouTube is seeking rights from major music companies — Video site had hoped to unveil the music tool last month
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
How Only in Dade, started as an Instagram meme page a decade ago, inadvertently became a Miami local news source, including by using its 1.3M followers' videos — If it's happening in Miami, locals find out about it through Only in Dade, previously a hub for alligator sightings and nightclub antics.
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Katie Notopoulos / MIT Technology Review:
Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse — We're in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it's broken. That's not news.
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Media Voices, @peepeepoopoop@mastodon.social, Niall Firth on LinkedIn, Garbage Day, @stefan@gardenstate.social, @Cassandra@artisan.chat, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @hrheingold@mastodon.social, @mammoth@moth.social, @timbray@cosocial.ca, @waxy@xoxo.zone, @ben@werd.social and The Information
Matt Mullenweg:
While X charging users $1/year to stop bots and spam is appealing, the value of manipulating X is so high that millions are likely already being spent to do so — Twitter/X is testing charging users $1/year with the idea that will keep out bots and spam. It's an appealing idea …
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Kylie Robison / Fortune:
X tests Not A Bot, requiring new, unverified users to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post and interact, in New Zealand and the Philippines
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