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5:10 PM ET, October 29, 2021

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Nieman Lab:
Survey of 500 Nieman Lab readers on why they canceled news subscriptions: 31% due to money, 30% due to ideology, 13% because content wasn't satisfactory  —  What was the last news subscription you canceled, and why?  —  Media Twitter may be full of people threatening to cancel their …
Delia Cai / Vanity Fair:
Q&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge's 10th anniversary, about tech media's advance from early breathless gadget reviews, subject-source relationships, more  —  After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech's troublesome relationship with the rest of the world.
Wall Street Journal:
WSJ's editorial board defends publishing a letter from Trump, saying Trump is making election rigging claims elsewhere, so “we hardly did him a special favor”  —  His 2020 monomania is news, and it reflects on his fitness for 2024.  —  By The Editorial Board
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Critics accuse WSJ of amplifying misinformation after it publishes a 600-word letter to the editor from Trump, filled with debunked claims of election fraud
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC to appoint external investigators that will seek evidence from the public and lobby groups to assess the impartiality of contentious topic coverage  —  The BBC is to appoint external investigators to assess the impartiality of its coverage of contentious topics.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Twitter rolls out Super Follow for select creators globally on iOS, after previously limiting the feature to the US and Canada  —  Twitter is rolling out the ability for all iOS users globally to Super Follow select creators.  The option was previously only available to users in the U.S. and Canada.
Discussion: Andreessen Horowitz
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
More than 80% of the ~250 eligible US Politico and E&E News staff have signed up with NewsGuild and are asking Axel Springer for recognition as the PEN Guild  —  - Unions says 80% of eligible U.S. employees have signed up  — Journalists at Politico, E&E News to make requests on Friday
Damon Beres / Wired:
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years  —  Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts.  They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent.
Nikhil Kurian Nainan / Reuters:
Australia's competition regulator allows a group representing 261 radio stations to negotiate payments from Facebook and Google for the stations' news content  —  Australia's competition regulator allowed a body representing 261 radio stations to negotiate a content deal with Facebook (FB.O) …
Discussion: Mumbrella and RadioInfo Australia
 
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BBC says an article about lesbians and trans women went through a “rigorous editorial process” after 16K people signed a letter protesting the piece
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Plug, a news outlet founded by data journalist Sherrell Dorsey, which reports on Black and brown tech founders, startups, and tech's impact
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
YouTube's mistaken deletion of UK news outlet Novara Media's channel draws criticism as an example of the company's power as a content regulator
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products
 

 
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Financial Times:
Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 for a minority stake, after G42 severed ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will join G42's board

Matthew Connatser / The Register:
Intel's Gaudi 3 white paper details the made-for-China processors HL-328 and HL-388, likely designed to comply with US sanctions by reducing performance

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A look at the failure of Humane's Ai Pin, which took six years to ship after raising $230M, including building the device “the Apple way” and raising too much

 
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