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3:45 PM ET, March 18, 2023

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
YouTube lifts its restrictions on Donald Trump's channel, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence”  —  YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Axios shouldn't have fired Ben Montgomery for calling out Governor DeSantis' propaganda given co-founder Jim VandeHei once told Roger Ailes, “Go fuck yourself”  —  Reporters have been brawling with public relations flacks since the late 1800s when railroads and other corporations …
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Charlotte Klein / @charlottetklein:
Axios fires Tampa Bay-based reporter Ben Montgomery after he replied to an email about a Governor DeSantis event, “This is propaganda, not a press release.”
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Inside Higher Ed:
A group of librarians say the Internet Archive is a library, arguing that a lawsuit by four major publishers threatens the development of digital collections  —  A lawsuit against the Internet Archive threatens the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades, say a group of current and former university librarians.
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
In a first for a music streaming service, Bandcamp employees in the US form a union, Bandcamp United, which will include 62 people, and ask for an NLRB election  —  U.S. employees at Bandcamp, an online audio distributor, have announced their formation of a union.
Julia MacCary / Variety:
YouGov: a quarter of US adults wait for a streaming original's finale before starting, of which 27% fear the show being canceled and 48% prefer to binge watch  —  Frequent TV show cancellations are starting to change how U.S. viewers decide what to watch.  In fact, whether or not the show …
Financial Times:
How tech from London-based AI startup Synthesia, backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela's government  —  UK tech company developed software used in fake news videos promoted by authoritarian government
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein on reader donations, paywalls, and quality over quantity; readers donated 74% of its $16.8M FY 2021 revenue  —  “Smart, fearless journalism” is the tagline of American investigative news outlet Mother Jones - but would this mission …
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Meta debuts Verified in the US for $12/month on the web or $15/month on Android/iOS, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and customer support  —  Meta's paid verification program is available in the US starting today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Instagram channel.
NPR:
Sylvia Poggioli, the longest-serving reporter on NPR's international desk, is retiring at the end of March 2023 after 41 years at NPR and 51 years in journalism  —  In a note to editorial staff, Didrik Schanche, International Editor, and Edith Chapin, Acting SVP of News, made the following announcement:
Mark Mulligan / MIDiA Research Blog:
Research: global recorded music revenue rose 6.7% YoY to $31.2B in 2022, with $20B from streaming and $10.8B from indie labels and artists direct; UMG hit $9.2B  —  Following a spectacular year of growth in 2021, global recorded music revenue growth slowed significantly in 2022 due …
 
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Sherrell Dorsey / The Plug:
The Plug founder and CEO Sherrell Dorsey announces that the news outlet focused on Black tech, venture capital, and future of work news and research is closing
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and in print; some titles, including USA Today, are still available via Kindle Unlimited
Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times:
Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times
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Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google's ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more
Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Sources: the FBI and DOJ are investigating what led TikTok's parent company ByteDance to use the app to surveil US journalists; source: ByteDance was subpoenaed
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube raises YouTube TV's price by $8 to $72.99/month, citing a rise in “content costs”, effective for new users on March 16 and existing users on April 18
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy, effective immediately; Shear is a Justin.tv co-founder
 

 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions
 
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