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The Daily Wire claims that Twitter canceled a deal to premiere What Is a Woman and threatened to “throttle” the documentary over two instances of “misgendering” — Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing tore into Elon Musk and Twitter for allegedly threatening …
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The New York Times launches a free, geotargeted weather newsletter that lets readers pick up to four places in the continental US for which to get risk alerts — Readers can opt in to receive morning emails explaining the level and type of extreme weather risk in up to four different places.
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The Washington Post Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr plans to leave at the end of June after 19 years at The Post, to move to England and return to writing — Barr, who joined The Post in 2004 after several years as a foreign correspondent, helped oversee teams that won 12 Pulitzer Prizes
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CNN names veteran Warner Bros. Discovery executive David Leavy as its COO, to take over commercial, operational, and promotional activities across the channel — Aide to Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav to help network CEO Chris Licht focus on programming

WordPress.com launches paid subscriptions and premium content in free newsletters, available to all WordPress.com blogs, including those on the free plan — WordPress.com is taking on Substack and others with today's news that its Newsletter product will now support paid subscriptions and premium content.
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Hundreds of US employees at 24 Gannett newspapers plan to walk off the job on June 5, the day of Gannett's annual shareholder meeting, to protest budget cuts — Hundreds of staffers at Gannett newspapers across seven states are protesting their company's leadership and job cuts
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The California Assembly votes 46-6 to pass a bill requiring tech companies to pay a percentage of ad revenue to outlets; the bill advances to the State Senate — One day after Facebook parent company Meta threatened to remove news content from its platforms if Assembly Bill 886 becomes law …
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Meta threatens to remove news content from its platforms in California if the state government passes a proposed law forcing tech companies to pay publishers
Meta threatens to remove news content from its platforms in California if the state government passes a proposed law forcing tech companies to pay publishers
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Verizon introduces a streaming bundle combining Netflix Premium and Paramount+ with Showtime for $25.99/month, via its +play subscription aggregation hub — For the first time, rival streaming services Netflix and Paramount+ are coming together in a price-discounted bundle, exclusively for Verizon wireless customers in the U.S.
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Disney has reached its target of 7,000 layoffs, or 3.2% of its global headcount of ~220,000 staff; source: the company plans more cuts internationally over time — Disney reached its 7,000 layoffs goal, handing out notices to the remaining employees impacted in its third round of job cuts …
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A look at the grotesque world of AI true-crime-victim TikTok, where AI deepfakes, based on images of children who were abused, describe their own ghastly demise — TikTok accounts are posting horrifying artificial intelligence-generated clips of murder victims — mostly children — describing their own ghastly demise
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How The Philadelphia Inquirer uses iPhone lock screen widgets as a “second-screen experience” during live events like sports games and election results coverage — The news org is catering to the readers who spend a lot of time on their phones during live events like sports games and election returns.
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The Block unveils a real-time News API that gives developers, investors, and data providers access to its sector-specific coverage of crypto and digital assets — Today, The Block unveiled its real-time news API, giving application developers, investors, and data providers …