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2:00 PM ET, December 23, 2022

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Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Documents show TikTok parent ByteDance surveilled Forbes journalists and former BuzzFeed employees Emily Baker-White, Katharine Schwab, and Richard Nieva  —  ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
ByteDance fired four employees after finding in a probe they accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story  —  The company's internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.
Reuters:
Sources: aiming to appease the US government, TikTok offers to operate more of its business at arm's length and allow more outside scrutiny by Oracle and others  —  Popular short-video app TikTok is offering to operate more of its business at arm's length and subject it to outside scrutiny …
Alex W. Palmer / New York Times:
How ByteDance and TikTok, which owe their existence to intermingled Western and Chinese ideas, capital, and people, became caught in changing US-China relations
Axios:
Source: Michael Bloomberg wants to expand his media empire and is interested in acquiring Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post  —  Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and media mogul, is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones …
Wall Street Journal:
YouTube buys NFL Sunday Ticket's residential rights for seven years, sources say for ~$2B/year; DirecTV paid $1.5B/year for residential and commercial rights  —  Video streamer to pay annual fee of roughly $2 billion under seven-year deal  —  Created with sketchtool.
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Whistleblower protection org Government Accountability Project files a complaint to Congress over Twitter's suspension of Steve Herman and other journalists  —  Nearly a week after Twitter's new owner Elon Musk said that the accounts of suspended journalists would be reinstated, at least six remain blocked.
Wall Street Journal:
Pathmatics: ~70% of Twitter's top 100 ad spenders before Elon Musk's takeover weren't spending as of the week ending December 18; 89% of 2021 revenue was ads  —  Executives are promising big incentives and new technology while also trying to explain the actions of their new owner
The Hill:
January 6 committee recommends Congress “continue to evaluate policies of media companies that have had the effect of radicalizing their consumers”  —  The House committee examining last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol issued its long-awaited final report on Thursday night …
Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter:
Film executives are reaffirming their vows to theatrical releases, especially after Top Gun: Maverick, but it's unclear whether audiences will show up regularly  —  This year brought some big box office wins — never underestimate Tom Cruise — but mostly it was a time for film execs to stanch bleeding …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Fox News host Sean Hannity and others say they doubted Trump's 2020 voting fraud claims, as Dominion Voting lawyers try to show Fox knowingly aired false claims  —  On Wednesday, lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems shared some of the strongest evidence yet that some Fox employees knew what they broadcast about the claims was false.
 
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[Thread] The Fort Worth NewsGuild ends its strike at McClatchy's Star-Telegram after 24 days and promises details later; the company moved on its $45K pay floor
David Robb / Deadline:
Over 130 WGA East members at Bustle Digital Group sign a petition calling on CEO Bryan Goldberg to address salary demands after nearly two years of negotiations
Brian Cronin / CBR:
The US Copyright Office rules that a comic book made using AI art is ineligible for copyright protection, revoking its copyright granted in September 2022
Tiyashi Datta / Reuters:
AMC Entertainment announces a $110M equity raise, by selling its APE preferred stock to Antara Capital for 66 cents per share; AMC's stock closes down 7.36%
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A federal judge rules movie studios can be sued under false advertising laws for releasing deceptive trailers, like ones featuring an actor cut from the movie
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Jennifer Jenkins / Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, and music from 1927 will enter the public domain on January 1, 2023, including Agatha Christie's The Big Four and Bessie Smith's Back Water Blues
NBC News:
Infotainment blogs such as NoJumper and Hollywood Unlocked are spreading misogyny and misinformation against Megan Thee Stallion, Amber Heard, and other women
Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature:
A look at Twitter's major role in research and science communication, especially during the pandemic, as researchers and scientists now leave the service