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12:35 PM ET, February 2, 2023

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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Some former CNET employees describe the breakdown of barriers between editorial and advertising under Red Ventures and say they were pressured to change stories  —  CNET built a trusted brand for tech reporting over two decades.  After being acquired by Red Ventures, staff say editorial firewalls have been repeatedly breached.
TechCrunch:
Twitter plans to end free access to its API starting February 9, shuttering support for both v1.1 and v2, and instead will launch a paid tier  —  Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Holden Foreman, The Washington Post's first accessibility engineer, on his role, improving access for people with disabilities, challenges, and more  —  “It is definitely stressful to be the first in this new role.  I feel deep down like I need to justify its creation with every step that I take."
Discussion: Ad Age and @niemanlab
Samantha Cole / VICE:
Netflix Japan used AI art in its The Dog & The Boy short, citing a “labor shortage” in the anime industry, which has long faced labor abuses and poor wages  —  A new short film called ‘The Dog & The Boy’ uses AI-generated art for its backgrounds.  —  Samantha Cole
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with ad expert Eric Seufert on Meta's Q4 report, rising ad load, ATT, Reels, the Google-Facebook duopoly, Amazon, EU regulation, Google's DOJ case, and more  —  An interview with Eric Seufert about Meta's earnings, the ATT recession, new European regulations, and the DOJ-Google antitrust case.
Emily Bary / MarketWatch:
SEC filing: Comcast sold 5,726,385 BuzzFeed shares from January 30 to February 1 as BuzzFeed's stock surged, leaving the company with 19.97% of BuzzFeed's stock  —  Buzzfeed stock has rocketed in recent days amid enthusiasm over its use of AI  —  Comcast Corp. has sold part of its stake in Buzzfeed Inc. …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix says US password sharing rules haven't been set yet, removes rules from its US help page that said users must connect to a “primary Wi-Fi” every 31 days  —  Based on info sourced from Netflix's support pages, The Streamable reported on Tuesday details about its upcoming anti-password sharing efforts.
Lizzie Johnson / @lizziejohnsonnn:
[Thread] After the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, The Washington Post picked up and finished his work on an alleged $500M Ponzi scheme  —  Not long after Jeff German — a reporter at the @reviewjournal — was slain outside of his home last fall, my editor called me with a question. The Post had reached out, asking if we could help in some way. Jeff's editor had an idea. Maybe we could take on the last of his work.
Mizanur Rahman / Houston Landing:
Houston Landing, a free, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, digital-only news outlet, which received $20M in seed funding in 2022, announces a spring launch  —  More than a year ago, researchers studying local news in the Houston metro area learned something critical to the launch of the Houston Landing.
Reeves Wiedeman / Vulture:
As documentaries boom, filmmakers, their subjects, and the bill-paying streamers wrestle with questions of ethics, money, and control, amid shrinking budgets  —  The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects.
 
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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
A profile of James McNicholas, who covers Arsenal for The Athletic and has an acting career that includes starring in the BBC's Horrible Histories and Ted Lasso
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
A look at ad industry meme accounts, often run by anonymous industry veterans to share news, create a sense of community among junior staff and CMOs, and more
Bloomberg:
TikTok is limiting the number of songs that some users in Australia can post on its app, an experiment meant to assess how much they value music in their videos
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Pakistan “degrades” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warns of a full block if the nonprofit fails to comply
Max Tani / Semafor:
The US DOJ charges former ABC News foreign correspondent James Gordon Meek over the alleged transportation of CSAM; the FBI raided Meek's home in April 2022
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: BDG Media suspends Gawker operations and CEO Bryan Goldberg says the company will cut 8% of its full-time staff after “a surprisingly difficult” Q1 2023