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Twitter says in 30 days users must be Verified to access TweetDeck, as it updates TweetDeck with support for full composer functionality, Spaces, and more — We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in the bottom left menu. Some notes on getting started and the future of the product... https://twitter.com/...
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Twitter employees say that removing support for legacy APIs is what broke TweetDeck, and the company will be moving users to the “new” version of TweetDeck — Twitter is officially launching its “new” version of TweetDeck to everyone, according to a tweet from Twitter's support account …


TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read limits; home timelines still load — Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.
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A look at Mattel Films, formed by the US toy giant to leverage its IP and which has 45 movies in development, starting with Barbie, after Hasbro's similar moves — In an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO.
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DirecTV removes 159 Nexstar-owned stations, including ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, after the two companies didn't sign a new distribution deal by the July 2 deadline — Millions of DirecTV customers lost access to Nexstar Media Group channels after the two companies failed to agree to a new distribution contract by a Sunday night deadline.
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Instagram's Twitter-like “text-based conversation app” Threads is showing up in the Google Play store in some European countries — - Instagram appears to be getting ready to launch its Twitter-rival app called “Threads.” — The app has been in development since Jan …


Uber whistleblower and former New York Times technology opinion editor Susan Fowler Rigetti joins Slate's Future Tense as its new editor — Future Tense—which is a partnership of Slate, Arizona State University, and the think tank New America—is thrilled to announce its new editor is journalist …
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Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, like “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the strategy with ad executives at Cannes Lions — US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year — Netflix will develop increasingly targeted …
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Poynter Institute's MediaWise director says Twitter's Community Notes mostly fails to fight misinformation by requiring a “cross-ideological agreement on truth” — An attempt to solve ‘the problem of biased fact-checkers’ has left most Notes unseen by public, fact-checking conference is told
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Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales — As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.


Thousands of performers, who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago, are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
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Ampere: Disney+ Hotstar remains India's streaming leader with ~50M subscribers in Q1 and a 29% share, despite losing IPL cricket rights, vs. Prime Video's 12.4M — Disney+ Hotstar lost the rights to offer Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket last year, but the streamer remains India's market leader, according to Ampere Analysis.
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