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Rolling Stone:
Filmmaker Alex Holder, who followed the Trump family for a documentary over the last six weeks of his 2020 campaign, gave the footage to the January 6 committee — Former administration and campaign officials tell Rolling Stone they had no idea a film crew had months of access to the former president and his family
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta's housing advertising system of discriminating against Facebook users based on their race, gender, religion and other characteristics.
Katie Collins / CNET:
The EU says TikTok agreed to curb undisclosed ads by altering its branded content policy and ad reporting options and to ban promoting “inappropriate products” — After complaints that TikTok was breaching EU consumer rules, the company has worked with the European Commission to update its branded-content policy.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, after an investigative report on the site's years of hosting nonconsensual sexually explicit videos — MindGeek, the internet company best known for operating Pornhub, said that CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned.
Dan Froomkin / Washington Monthly:
Jeff Bezos should gift The Washington Post's Arc XP CMS to a mission-driven nonprofit entity that would open source it, as a public service to the news industry — When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, he quickly became aware of a longtime problem hobbling …
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Wikimedia Foundation:
Wikimedia Enterprise, a paid service for reusing and sourcing Wikimedia content in high volume, announces Google and the Internet Archive as its first clients — San Francisco, CA, USA ― Wikimedia Enterprise, a first-of-its-kind commercial product designed for companies that reuse …
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Bloomberg:
A judge rules that a Dominion lawsuit against Fox News parent Fox Corp. can go on, as executives Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch may have acted with “actual malice” — Fox News's parent company can be sued by a voting-machine maker because Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch may have acted with …
Esther Kezia Thorpe / Media Voices:
Survey: 18% of US adults subscribe to newsletters by solo journalists, vs. 4% in the UK and 8% in Germany, hinting “the Substack revolution” is a US phenomenon — This year's hotly-anticipated Digital News Report 2022 from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has landed.
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Rob Hastings / The i Paper:
A profile of BBC Eastern Europe Correspondent Sarah Rainsford, who was kicked out of Russia in August 2021 and is now covering Russia's invasion from Ukraine — When Russian troops retreated from the towns around Kyiv, abandoning their attempts to capture Ukraine's capital - for now, at least - journalists quickly moved in.
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@sarahrainsford, @euan_macdonald, @robhastings, @biz_ukraine_mag and @robhastings
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Entertainment news outlet Ankler Media raised a $1.5M seed at a $20M valuation; CEO Janice Min says Ankler has 22K paid and free subscriptions and is profitable — Ankler Media, an entertainment news company, has raised a $1.5 million seed round at a $20 million valuation, its CEO and editor-in-chief Janice Min tells Axios.
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Too Much TV Newsletter, @ycombinator, @theinsneider, @davidiadeleke, @rafat, @entstrategyguy, @richardrushfield, @janicemin and The Wrap
Abbey White / The Hollywood Reporter:
Equal Entertainment acquires Pride Media, owner of Out Magazine, The Advocate, and Pride.com, and plans to rebrand the LGBTQ+ media company as Equal Pride — The acquisition puts the country's largest LGBTQ+ media company — home to Out and The Advocate's print and digital arms — under queer ownership for the first time.
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@tracyegilchrist, @jeffmasters1 and @juwanthewriter
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Naomi Osaka launches media company Hana Kuma in partnership with LeBron James' SpringHill; SpringHill wants to replicate the Hana Kuma deal with other athletes — The tennis star, who has struggled on the court of late, is behind an entertainment company called Hana Kuma in partnership with Mr. James's fast-growing SpringHill.
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