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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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Jay Peters / The Verge:
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 …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
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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Alex Barasch / New Yorker:
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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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
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 …
Slate:
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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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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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Madison Czopek / Poynter:
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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New York Times:
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.
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
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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Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
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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