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10:40 PM ET, November 15, 2023

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Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center:
Survey: 14% of US adults regularly get news on TikTok in 2023, up from 3% in 2020: 32% aged 18 to 29, 15% aged 30 to 49, 7% aged 50 to 64, and 3% aged 65+  —  A small but growing share of U.S. adults say they regularly get news on TikTok.  This is in contrast with many other social media sites …
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
The FCC adopts a rule to prevent limiting broadband access by “income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin”; ISPs and the GOP complain  —  Industry and GOP say rule goes too far, warn of a chilling effect on broadband investment
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Members of the The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party ask Tim Cook to explain the abrupt ending of The Problem With Jon Stewart on TV+  —  U.S. lawmakers asked Apple Inc to explain the abrupt end of political comedian Jon Stewart's television show on its streaming service …
New York Times:
US and European newsrooms face tough choices over which Israel-Hamas war photographs to publish, complicated by disinformation and photojournalist restrictions  —  Digital disinformation and restrictions on photojournalists have complicated decision-making about the visual chronicle of the Israel-Hamas war.
New York Times:
Interviews with 100+ people detail David Zaslav's WBD tenure, including cost cuts and a 50%+ stock drop, during a tumultuous time for the entertainment industry  —  A merger put him in the driver's seat at Warner Brothers, one of the industry's biggest studios.  It has been a wild ride.
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Interviews with 12+ CNN insiders detail how David Zaslav cultivated friendships with some of CNN's biggest names, which did not stop him from later firing them
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Meng Ru Kuok, the CEO and founder of Singapore-based Caldecott Music Group, acquires Gawker's trademarks and domain, but not archives, from Bustle Digital Group  —  Get ready for Gawker 3.0: The twice-shuttered blog site has a new owner, who plans to bring the gossipy pop-culture brand back to life — but not in exactly the same way.
404 Media:
The Guardian takes down a 2002 letter written by Osama Bin Laden criticizing US support of Israel, after the letter went viral on TikTok  —  “The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared today on social media without its original context.  Therefore we have decided to take it down."
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Memos: BuzzFeed Publisher Dao Nguyen steps down, replaced by Jessica Probus as the company moves from emphasizing its aggregated network to growing its brands  —  Veteran executive Jessica Probus will step up as its new publisher  —  Culture and entertainment publisher BuzzFeed Inc. unveiled …
Music Business Worldwide:
Stability AI VP of Audio Ed Newton-Rex resigns, saying he disagrees with the company's view that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is fair use  —  Ed Newton-Rex has quit his role at Stability AI.  In an exclusive op-ed, he shares why.
Thomas Wilde / GeekWire:
Amazon plans to merge its Comixology app with Kindle on December 4, and automatically integrate all comics that Comixology users own into their Kindle libraries  —  Amazon will merge its digital comics storefront Comixology with Kindle on Dec. 4, which will also involve the official end of service for the standalone Comixology app.
 
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The “deinfluencer” trend among creators, which urges people to buy less or differently, fades as the consumerism-driven content creator industry keeps growing
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Two SAG-AFTRA board members say they voted against the new contract due to its lack of enough protections against AI, though they also had other reservations
 

 
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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

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy
 
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