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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days” — (The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
By using flimsy, absurd excuses for banning journalists' Twitter accounts, Elon Musk and his buddies reveal themselves as hypocrites who lack principles — Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It's how it always goes. — Remember Parler?
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Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions — The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.
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Gabe Hoffman / @gabehoff:
Twitter suspends Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez, who covers Tesla and who has documented the times when Elon Musk has “tracked and doxxed” his critics — Elon Musk just suspended Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez for documenting the times Elon had his enemies tracked and doxxed She did not post anything related to Elon's jet She has done amazing investigative reporting on Tesla https://twitter.com/...
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Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
Twitter suspends Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz's account after she reached out on Twitter to get a comment from Elon Musk about a story — 😵💫😵💫😵💫 — Earlier tonight, Elon Musk suspended my Twitter account.
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The Guardian:
The UK, Germany, the European Union, and the United Nations raise concerns over Twitter suspending US journalists, which the UN calls a “dangerous precedent” — Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions
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Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Report: Apple has backed out of negotiations for the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket; Amazon and Google are the only parties left, meaning Disney/ESPN exited too — The company once regarded as the frontrunner for NFL Sunday Ticket has opted to take a Sunday drive, instead.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: NBC News suspended Ben Collins from covering Elon Musk on NBC and MSNBC for criticism of Musk earlier in December deemed not editorially appropriate — News organizations are scrambling to respond to Elon Musk's suspension from Twitter of prominent journalists whose coverage he objected to.
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter suspends Mastodon's account and bans Mastodon links, calling them “harmful” and “malware”, after Mastodon tweeted a jet tracking account on its service — A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet, the fallout continues.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how Bob Iger undermined Bob Chapek before returning as Disney's CEO, in a bruising, yearslong power struggle worthy of the storyteller company — The former Walt Disney Co. chief executive undermined and then succeeded the man he had handpicked to lead the entertainment giant
Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:
A profile of sportswriter Grant Wahl, who helped elevate soccer, particularly women's soccer, in the US through his work spanning over two decades — The indefatigable sportswriter from Kansas knew that the power of the global game extended far beyond the field of play.
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Alex Cranz / The Verge:
Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming services scale back on experimental content that caters to smaller audiences, amid rising costs and increased competition — For a few years, there was a boon of content, and we were all wonderfully spoiled. And now that's over. — It's over.
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