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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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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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Gabe Hoffman / @gabehoff:
Twitter has suspended Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez, who covers Tesla and who has documented 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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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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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Puck co-founder Jon Kelly says the news outlet is pausing advertising on Twitter, after Elon Musk banned several high-profile journalists from the site
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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says the company manually reviewed “any and all accounts” that violated its new privacy policy by linking to ElonJet
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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
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Ryan Mac / New York Times:
Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”
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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.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail a bruising power struggle at Disney as Bob Iger undermined Bob Chapek for years before returning as the company's CEO — The former Walt Disney Co. chief executive undermined and then succeeded the man he had handpicked to lead the entertainment giant
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James Hercher / AdExchanger:
A look at Google's Performance Max, a black box ad product that spans all Google-owned media and provides no breakdowns by price, ad format, or media channel — Lost in the Sturm und Drang of Q4 (Q for quarantine) 2020, Google introduced a beta program called Performance Max, its first ad product spanning all Google-owned media.
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
NBCUniversal and JetBlue sign a deal to make Peacock the airline's exclusive streaming service and give TrueBlue loyalty members a one-year premium subscription — Originals available on seatback screens, passengers can access Peacock on mobile devices — NBCUniversal has made a deal …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Podcast and music media company Audio Up raised a nearly $10M Series C to ramp up the music side of its business and build new facilities in Nashville — Podcast and music media company Audio Up, founded and led by music production pioneer Jared Gutstadt, announced the initial closing …
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: NBC won't give the 10pm time slot to affiliate stations during the 2023-2024 broadcast season, which it had considered as a cost-cutting measure — A report last August about NBC considering dropping the 10 PM hour and giving it back to its affiliate stations rattled the creative community …
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