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7:55 PM ET, December 19, 2022

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Elon Musk apologizes and Twitter backtracks after planning to remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and others  —  Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.
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Brian Fung / CNN:
Twitter deletes @TwitterSupport's thread and a policy webpage detailing its controversial new policy to ban accounts for promoting other social media platforms  —  Twitter deleted its controversial new policy on Sunday evening that had banned links to certain other social media platforms …
James B. Stewart / New York Times:
A profile of CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht, whose first major act was to kill CNN+, as he tries to reverse CNN's revenue, profit, and ratings decline in 2022  —  The network's chief executive knew the job would not be easy.  But this hard?  —  When Chris Licht told his boss …
Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
Twitter reactivates The Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz's account; Elon Musk says the temporary suspension was due to “prior doxxing”  —  😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫  —  Earlier tonight, Elon Musk suspended my Twitter account.
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The European Commission sends Meta a statement of objections for alleged antitrust breaches over tying Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading terms  —  Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a complaint from European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it's unfairly squeezing …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Investigation: six Alabama and Florida outlets that attacked critics of power companies have financial ties to Matrix, a consulting firm the utilities hired  —  NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Netflix Head of Global Film Scott Stuber on the company's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery strategy, the state of the theatrical business, and more  —  Good afternoon from Mexico City, where I have eaten a taco an hour since I landed.  This will be my last newsletter of the year …
Andrew Dalton / Associated Press:
Harvey Weinstein is convicted on three of seven charges of rape and sexual assault at the disgraced movie mogul's Los Angeles criminal trial  —  Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday of rape at a Los Angeles trial in another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
A profile of Bari Weiss, who recently co-founded The Free Press and who Elon Musk let nose around Twitter's internal docs but has since been blocked by him  —  Last Monday, Bari Weiss asked me what my angle was in writing about her.  I told her I wondered whether, showered with adulation …
Kathryn VanArendonk / Vulture:
TV has no consumer-facing content preservation organization, like Criterion, making the disappearance of shows from streaming services an even greater loss  —  Recently, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun quietly and not so quietly removing titles from its streaming platform HBO Max.
Owen Walker / Financial Times:
Credit Suisse sues finance blog Inside Paradeplatz, asking for the removal of 52 articles published from July 27, when the bank's new CEO started, to October 28  —  Credit Suisse has launched a lawsuit against a popular Zurich finance blog over what it claims are unvetted …
CNN:
Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent known for getting even the cagiest of interview subjects to engage, died of cancer at 60  —  Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, known for getting even the cagiest of interview subjects …
 
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Bloomberg:
Sources and analysis: Twitter's Community Notes does not address divisive lies; 30K+, or ~96%, of fact-checking contributed by the community are not displayed
Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:
A profile of sportswriter Grant Wahl, who helped elevate soccer, particularly women's, in the US not as a cheerleader but via critical scrutiny over two decades
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
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
 

 
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple unveils $999+ 11" and $1,299+ 13" iPad Pros, with M4, an OLED Ultra Retina XDR screen, up to 1,600 nits; the 13" is Apple's thinnest product yet, at 5.1mm

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa says the company will announce Switch's successor this fiscal year; Nintendo has sold 141M+ units since Switch's 2017 debut

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
UK and US authorities identify and charge the leader of the LockBit ransomware gang, a 31-year-old Russian national; the US also issued sanctions against him

 
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