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3:30 PM ET, December 18, 2022

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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
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Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
Twitter reactivates Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz's account; Elon Musk says it was a temporary suspension due to “prior doxxing”  —  😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫  —  Earlier tonight, Elon Musk suspended my Twitter account.
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?
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/...
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.
@twittersupport:
Twitter will remove accounts made to “promote other social platforms” and content that has links or usernames to Facebook, Mastodon, and others  —  We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.
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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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.
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.
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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