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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Roku says it will no longer offer RT News among its channels globally, after earlier pulling the Russian state-controlled TV network from its service in Europe — Roku, the widely popular internet television service, will no longer offer RT among its channels, a company spokesperson told POLITICO on Tuesday.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
DirecTV drops RT “effective immediately”, accelerating this year's contract expiration timeline; DirecTV and Dish are the only major US TV providers carrying RT — New York (CNN Business)DirecTV is cutting ties with RT, the Russia-backed television network infamous for promoting Vladimir Putin's agenda.
Mark Scott / Politico:
YouTube plans to block Russia-backed RT and Sputnik in the European Union and the UK, following similar bans by Meta and TikTok, citing the invasion of Ukraine
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J. Clara Chan / Hollywood Reporter:
Snap halts ads in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, pledges $15M to relief orgs in Ukraine, and is helping relocate 300+ Ukrainian staff of its AR platform Looksery — Three hundred Snap employees are from Ukraine, according to a message shared on Tuesday.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
iSpot will acquire Tunity, which analyzes viewing habits of “out of home” audiences in restaurants and other locations through its mobile app — The media industry's measurement wars are expanding beyond counting traditional video audiences. — iSpot, the measurement company …
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Vikas SN / Moneycontrol:
Netflix acquires Finnish game developer Next Games for around $72M; the studio specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as Stranger Things — Next Games had released ‘Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales’, a role-playing game based on the streaming giant's hit 80s horror drama series in October last year.
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Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
Meta releases its Q4 Widely Viewed Content report, showing the most viewed Facebook Page comes from a banned account; Meta would not reveal the account — Safe to say that Meta's efforts to refute the idea that Facebook amplifies divisive political content are not going exactly as it would have hoped.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A profile of Bolts, a nonprofit digital magazine launched in early February to focus on criminal justice and voting rights at the local level in the US — “Issues that seem really intractable at the national level often aren't at the local level. That's why we think there's a lot of opportunity for coverage there."
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Jonathan Tannenwald / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Turner Sports wins English-language TV rights for US Soccer starting in 2023 and HBO Max will be the primary outlet; sources: the deal is worth ~$25M per year — The U.S. Soccer Federation's next English-language TV rights deal has been won by Turner Sports, the two entities announced Tuesday …
Amanda Yeo / Mashable:
Reddit quarantines r/Russia and r/RussiaPolitics over “a high volume of information not supported by credible sources” and bans a mod for acting in bad faith — A moderator has also been removed. — Reddit has quarantined subreddit r/Russia due to misinformation …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Q&A with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Novaya Gazeta EIC Dmitry Muratov on pressure from the Russian government, planning for a “very difficult period”, and more — “We continue to call war war,” Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, said. “We are waiting for the consequences.”
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Washington Post:
Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch remains a small pilot project 13 months after launch, with only 359 contributors flagging tweets in 2022 — With the Ukraine war unfolding on social media, parsing fact from fiction has never been trickier — or, for those involved, more urgent.
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Alex Ritman / Hollywood Reporter:
US film and TV studio A24 poaches two BBC executives, Rose Garnett, director of BBC Film, and Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama, for newly created roles — Rose Garnett and Piers Wenger will join A24 in newly-created London-based roles that will see them oversee its growing international film and TV slate.
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