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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6K posts/day, unverified 600, and new unverified 300, due to “extreme” data scraping — Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
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Matt Binder / Mashable:
Elon Musk claims Twitter login requirement is a “temporary emergency measure” as “several hundred” orgs were “scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively” — Twitter is currently blocking visitors from viewing tweets and profiles unless they are logged in.
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting all Twitter URLs to the sign in page — If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you may find you're unable to see any of the content …
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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
ESPN lays off on-air commentators, sources say affecting ~20 personalities, including top NBA game analyst Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, and Keyshawn Johnson — ESPN is laying off some of its biggest stars in a purge that is expected to result in around 20 on-air personalities being let go Friday …
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg settles her lawsuits against Fox, Tucker Carlson, and several executives for $12M; she had called Fox a toxic workplace — Abby Grossberg, who worked on Tucker Carlson's and Maria Bartiromo's shows, said she was harassed and set up to be a scapegoat in the Dominion defamation suit.
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Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
Email: ad platform MediaMath, which had raised $600M and was reportedly valued at $1B+ in 2018, plans to file for bankruptcy, after acquisition talks fell apart — The house Joe Zawadzki built will be foreclosed. — AdExchanger has learned that the demand-side platform …
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Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg:
Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station Citizens' Radio, founded in 2005, suspends broadcasting after a recent bank account freeze made operations unsustainable — A Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station will air its final show Friday evening, ending nearly two decades of broadcasting due to what it called a …
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Associated Press:
Austria's Wiener Zeitung, one of the oldest daily newspapers in the world, ends its print run after 320 years; a recent law change caused a sharp revenue drop — One of the world's oldest newspapers, the Vienna-based Wiener Zeitung, ended its daily print run Friday after more than three centuries.
David Robb / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP agreed to extend the current film and TV contract, set to expire June 30, to July 12 to allow for continued negotiations on a new deal — UPDATED with joint statement: SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers agreed Friday to extend …
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Financial Times:
A profile of conservative French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, who is acquiring Lagardère, the parent of influential weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche — Having created a French version of Fox News, he now has one of the country's most influential newspapers in his sights
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Christian Davies / Financial Times:
YouTube removes the channels of three North Korean influencers posting about their daily life, after South Korea labelled them as “psychological warfare” tools — Seoul says young influencers promoting Harry Potter and water parks are ‘psychological’ propaganda
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Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
WBD, Disney, Netflix, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences laid off or lost DEI leaders in the past 10 days, raising “diversity fatigue” concerns — Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Execs From Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Netflix and the Academy were either laid off or left their jobs in the past 10 days
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