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12:30 PM ET, January 13, 2025

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin leaves WaPo to launch The Contrarian on Substack, to combat the “authoritarian threat” with the tagline “Not owned by anybody”  —  New York CNN —  —  Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Tech reporter Ashlee Vance has left Bloomberg to start a media company called Core Memory, with documentaries, a YouTube show, podcast, and newsletter planned  —  The Scoop  —  The prolific Bloomberg tech journalist Ashlee Vance has left to start a new media company around his curious …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Rachel Maddow, who scaled back anchoring duties to Mondays in 2022, will return to five nights a week as part of MSNBC's plans for Trump's first 100 days  —  Maddow, who scaled back anchoring duties after the spring of 2022, holding forth only on Mondays, will return to five nights a week …
Financial Times:
Some advertisers raise brand safety concerns over Meta's content moderation changes, fearing a surge in harmful content and misinformation on its platforms  —  Mark Zuckerberg's unexpected ‘free speech’ overhaul of Meta's content moderation has sparked concerns among advertisers that it will lead …
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David Allen Green / Financial Times:
How aligning with Trump's new administration lets Meta and X pivot from futile cooperation with the EU and other jurisdictions to confrontation and coercion
Renée DiResta:
Meta's changes to its content policies will appease vocal political critics only for the short term, and they signal a retreat from responsibility to users
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is leaving following a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth; Sonos names board member Tom Conrad as interim CEO  —  - 'We've let far too many‬‭ people down,' company tells staffers  — Former Snap and Pandora executive Tom Conrad named interim CEO
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Will Cain will replace Neil Cavuto on Fox News, aiming to bring his “signature podcast style” to the 4pm slot  —  The ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-host will take over the 4 p.m. time slot with ‘The Will Cain Show’ on Jan. 21.
Matthew Martin / Bloomberg:
Sources: SURJ Sports, the sports investment arm of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, is in advanced talks to invest $1B+ in sports streaming platform Dazn  —  The deal between SURJ Sports Investment, a unit of the $925 billion Public Investment Fund, and Dazn could be announced as soon as this month …
Discussion: The Streamable
Toby Helm / The Guardian:
Sources: the UK considers tightening rules on MPs' contracts with media outlets, as some MPs doubled their parliamentary salaries as presenters on TV channels  —  Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage are among those who have earned large sums from broadcasters, but a tightening of rules on MPs' outside interests is being considered
Politico:
Jack Blanchard, who is currently Politico's UK editor, will move to Washington DC to become managing editor and author of its flagship Playbook newsletter  —  - Andrew McDonald promoted to London Playbook Author  —  ARLINGTON, Va - POLITICO today announced that Jack Blanchard will take charge …
James Hale / Tubefilter:
Streams Charts: Twitch watch time fell to 1.58B hours in December, its lowest monthly total since July 2020, as the number of channels live at any one time rose  —  Something interesting may have happened on Twitch in December.  —  Over the course of the month, the platform accumulated 1.58 billion hours …
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Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Fortune retracts a story claiming Elon Musk plans to remove timestamps from X posts and charge an $8 signup fee, apologizing for being “intentionally misled”
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Matt Mullenweg deactivates the accounts of several WordPress.org members, some of whom have been leading a push to create a new fork of the open-source project
John Micklethwait / Bloomberg:
Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait predicts AI's impact on journalism: jobs will change, not vanish, reporting and breaking news will remain valuable, and more
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney commits $15M to various relief efforts following the fires in Los Angeles, and Paramount Global says it will donate $1M to relief organizations
 

 
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Financial Times:
The Biden admin unveils a new chip export rule that gives 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China

Keir Starmer / Financial Times:
The UK's PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI

Leena Rao / Business Insider:
Sources: Chainalysis acquires AI-agent security startup Alterya for ~$150M; Alterya is still in stealth mode but has clients including Coinbase, Square, Binance
 
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