Mediagazer: Twitch rolls out changes to its violation enforcement system: minor infractions expire after 90 days and serious ones, like hateful conduct, in one or two years (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)

2:15 AM ET, February 20, 2025

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40 news organizations signed a letter delivered to the White House this week, asking the White House to lift its AP ban immediately in support of press freedom — News outlets across the political spectrum have united behind the AP, signing a WHCA-backed letter urging the White House …

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ABC: 55% of the combined 2024 digital magazine circulation in the UK came from “all you can read” services like Apple News+, Kindle Unlimited, and Readly

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:

Filing: CBS plans to seek financial information from Trump, Truth Social, TMTG, and more if Trump's $20B lawsuit against CBS goes to a discovery phase — The network's attorneys outlined their likely requests in a filing in Texas federal court on Tuesday. They also said they would seek …

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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

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Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:

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The BBC added a clarification to its documentary Gaza: How To Survive a Warzone and apologized, after failing to declare the narrator was a Hamas leader's son — The BBC “had not been informed of this information” by the independent producers behind the doc, the corporation added …

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Email: the US State Department orders the cancellation of news subscriptions globally, in particular the Economist, NYT, Politico, Bloomberg, AP, and Reuters — Embassies and consulates were told to terminate subscriptions to the New York Times, the Associated Press and others.

Tom Wheeler / Brookings:

FCC Chair Brendan Carr should clarify the vague “public interest standard”, as his politicization of FCC's processes against CBS goes against legal precedent — The Order prohibits any “federal department, agency, entity, officer, employee, or agent” from acting …

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Lawrence Bonk / Engadget:

Twitch rolls out changes to its violation enforcement system: minor infractions expire after 90 days and serious ones, like hateful conduct, in one or two years — Depending on severity, this will take 90 days to two years. — Twitch has rolled out a number of changes to its violation enforcement system.

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The Guardian:

Italy's national journalist union launches legal action after Giorgia Meloni's government refused to answer questions about allegedly using spyware on critics — Union submits criminal complaint to prosecutors as ministers refuse to answer questions about alleged hacks

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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:

SiriusXM expands its $5.99 per month podcast subscription offering to Spotify, YouTube Music, and more, after launching it on Apple Podcasts in August 2024 — The SiriusXM Podcasts+ offering is expanding to YouTube Music and Spotify. — SiriusXM is expanding its podcast subscription offering to Spotify, YouTube Music and more.

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:

A US federal judge declined to dismiss an investor lawsuit alleging Bob Chapek aimed to hide Disney+ costs and make forecasts it would be profitable by 2024 — A judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit from investors who claimed former CEO Bob Chapek aimed to hide Disney+ costs and make forecasts that it would be profitable by 2024.

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