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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard plans to fully integrate with ActivityPub and is testing the move with select accounts, like Semafor, Medium, Polygon, Kotaku, Digiday, and The Verge — Instagram Threads isn't the only app joining the decentralized social web, which includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and other apps …
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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
MGM+ partners with Lionsgate on a licensing deal to expand into Latin America as part of its international rollout, starting with Brazil and Mexico in January — Under the pact, the MGM+ offer will boast leading series and movies from Lionsgate and Starz, alongside iconic films …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Diamond Sports Group about an investment and a multiyear streaming partnership; Diamond would keep operating its cable networks — E-commerce giant would partner with Diamond on streaming as part of deal under discussion — Amazon is in talks to invest …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into X, focusing on “illegal content and disinformation”, ad transparency, “deceptive design”, and data access — X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, may have broken the European Union's tough new Digital Service Act rules …
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European Commission, @safety, The Hill, @thierrybreton, SiliconANGLE, Semafor, New York Times, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, @jamestitcomb, The Indian Express, Politico, UPI, @carnage4life@mas.to, @padraig@mastodon.ie, @vorobyov, The Information, @artemr, BBC, CNN, The Wrap, Wired, @mistakenotmy@threads.net, Associated Press, @willoremus, Variety, The Guardian, @jonathanreed@techhub.social, Engadget, Washington Post, CNBC, Gizmodo, New York Post and The Daily Beast, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
The trial of Hong Kong media mogul and activist Jimmy Lai begins; Lai faces possible life imprisonment if convicted on charges of collusion with foreign forces — Media mogul faces up to life in prison if convicted under national security law — HONG KONG—The most high-profile case …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: The Messenger editors clashed with publisher Jimmy Finkelstein in November after a directive to remove Donald Trump “trial coverage” from the homepage — The Scoop — During former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York last month …
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The Guardian:
Sources: the UK's Labour party won't oppose plans to weaken press regulation as its leaders court rightwing media owners like Rupert Murdoch before the election — The party has made it clear that Keir Starmer had no intention of reviving the second stage of the Leveson inquiry
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@fisherandrew79, @premnsikka, @ScepticalScot1@mastodon.scot, @edwinhayward, @akankwaku, @Wen@mastodon.scot and @ta_mills
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Newsquest's head of editorial AI, Jody Doherty-Cove, says the UK regional publisher now employs seven AI-assisted reporters publishing “thousands of articles” — The company's head of editorial AI said it had published “thousands” of AI-assisted articles.
Dave Collins / Associated Press:
Alex Jones proposes paying Sandy Hook families $55M+ over 10 years, a fraction of the $1.5B awarded; the families seek to liquidate his assets and media company — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years …
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Appin co-founder Rajat Khare used law firms to threaten outlets in the US, UK, and other countries to kill stories about the Indian hack-for-hire firm — A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to …
Savannah Maher / Marketplace:
How new local ownership, in one year, revived The Deming Headlight, after Gannett turned the small-town New Mexico newspaper into “a ghost paper” without staff — The Deming Headlight's office shares a downtown block with a barber, a hearing aid supplier and quinceañera dress shop …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Streaming TV appears to have entered its franchise era; Netflix plans spinoffs of the Addams Family, Peaky Blinders, and action movie Extraction, among others — Sequels and prequels have already taken over the movie business. Now they're coming for TV. — Good afternoon from Los Angeles …
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Bloomberg:
Disney seems to have more than its share of boomerang executives, which include Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer, both once seen as potential successors to Bob Iger — A number have returned or are angling to come back — from retired Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger, who resumed his duties a year ago …
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