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December 15, 2022, 11:35 PM
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Twitter suspends the accounts of several journalists, including NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Musk says “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”  —  Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter suspends the account of its rival Mastodon, and many links to some Mastodon servers no longer work on Twitter, which flags them as “potentially harmful”  —  A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet, the fallout continues.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Instagram launches a tool for getting help recovering a hacked account, accessing an account after forgetting the password, and reporting impersonation accounts  —  Instagram users who are victims of hacking now have a new way to try to claw back their account.
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money  —  For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Amazon Games plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider, marking Amazon's first major, single-player game, currently in early development  —  The title will be the first major single-player game for Amazon.  It is a coup for the retail giant, which has struggled to gain traction with its video game business.
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch:
London-based Aztec Network, which is building an encrypted version of Ethereum, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z and plans a testnet launch within 12 months  —  Aztec Network, a privacy layer for web3, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
David Klepper / Associated Press:
CCDH: when researchers liked self-harm and eating disorder videos on TikTok in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, the app recommended more similar content  —  TikTok's algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens, according to a report published Wednesday …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Google finishes rolling out the Matter smart home standard to Android and Nest, following Apple and Samsung; Amazon plans to support Matter by the end of 2022  —  Google announced today that it has completed the initial rollout of Matter to its Google Nest products and Android OS.
Sebastian Moss / DCD:
Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center projects globally and lays off a Danish contractor, as part of a design change for AI workloads  —  As it plans radical shift to AI data centers  —  Meta is reviewing a number of under-construction data center projects around …
More: Bloomberg
CNBC:
After being named in an FTX lawsuit along with Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Larry David, Shaquille O'Neal says he was “just a paid spokesperson for a commercial”  —  Shaquille O'Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn't believe in crypto, if he ever did.
Bloomberg:
Filing: the DOJ's US Trustee unit names nine creditors to FTX's bankruptcy committee that could shape payout plans, including units from Genesis and Wintermute
Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth almost $3.6B, his fourth sale since his Twitter takeover bid and third since tweeting “no further TSLA sales”  —  Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover  —  Elon Musk has offloaded another tranche …
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Microsoft quietly updates its TOS to prohibit crypto mining on Azure and other services without “prior written approval”, citing “disruption or even impairment”  —  Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers  —  UPDATED Microsoft has quietly banned cryptocurrency mining …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment  —  Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …
Financial Times:
The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its entity list, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chipmaker Cambricon  —  ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China  —  The US has placed three dozen Chinese companies …
Paul J. Davies / Bloomberg:
An attempt to understand how much real-world money was lost by SBF and FTX, a key question for the SEC, suggests only a fraction of crypto's peak $3T valuation

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From Mediagazer

Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

More News

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune:
The UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, launches an aid program to distribute USDC on the Stellar blockchain to internally displaced Ukrainians via Vibrant wallets
Alexander Martin / The Record:
Meta reports taking down 200+ coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on their domestic audience
Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat:
Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data

Earlier Picks

Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a book from 1941 predicting the “managerial class” supplanting capitalists, which could help explain Elon Musk's Twitter
Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: aiming for 5%+ economic growth in 2023, Chinese officials reassess their tech policies and plan to close lengthy investigations into internet companies
Byron Kaye / Reuters:
Australia's e-Safety Commissioner says Apple and Microsoft are not doing enough to stop CSAM on their storage services, calling their responses “alarming”
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Binance's spokesperson Patrick Hillmann claims Changpeng Zhao has traveled to the US without publicizing it, after rumors that he could face legal difficulties
Bloomberg:
Internal FTX documentation: a GitHub account bearing the name of former engineering director Nishad Singh authored code to hide Alameda's ballooning liabilities
Al Weaver / The Hill:
The US Senate unanimously passes the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns about China-based ByteDance, after 13 states set similar bans
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