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Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions  —  The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
By using flimsy, absurd excuses for banning journalists' Twitter accounts, Elon Musk and his buddies show themselves to be hypocrites with no principles  —  Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go.  It's how it always goes.  —  Remember Parler?
The Guardian:
Representatives from the UK, Germany, the European Commission, and the United Nations raise concerns over Twitter's suspension of US journalists  —  Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions  —  The United Nations is “very disturbed” …
NBC News:
Twitter suspends journalists including the New York Times' Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’”
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Semafor:
Sources: the MD of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter, offering shares of Twitter at $54.20, the same price that Musk paid  —  The managing director of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee …
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Mazars, the auditor that worked on proof-of-reserves reports for Binance, Crypto.com, and others, pauses work with crypto clients and deletes Binance's report  —  Mazars has deleted Binance's proof-of-reserves assessment, which found its bitcoin reserves were overcollateralized.
New York Times:
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness”  —  John Carmack, who was chief technology officer of Oculus, which Meta bought, is departing the company.
9to5Mac:
Apple, Google, and Mozilla are collaborating on the development of Speedometer 3, a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness  —  Speedometer is a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness by simulating user interactions on demo web applications.  Introduced by Apple's WebKit team …
RT Watson / The Block:
Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo, which uses DCG for its staking service, says it can't access ~$297M held at DCG and that DCG is “experiencing liquidity problems”  —  - Bitvavo said it can't access 280 million euros ($297 million) held at DCG.  — DCG controls troubled crypto lender Genesis Global Capital.
More: Reuters and Bitvavo
Brian Fung / CNN:
Some legal experts say Twitter could face regulatory scrutiny for blocking links to Mastodon  —  Elon Musk's Twitter sparked an international outcry on Thursday by suspending a number of journalists at major news organizations who cover him.  —  But a different and possibly related move …
Meg Shen / Reuters:
Foxconn's Xingwei agrees to sell its entire stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup for ~$771.79M  —  Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW), the world's largest contract electronics maker, said on Friday its subsidiary in China has agreed to sell entire equity stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup.
More: Reuters and PingWest
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
TikTok is helping a new class of music business executives break through and circumvent the notoriously exclusive path that the industry usually requires  —  The pandemic spurred many young music business hopefuls to join TikTok, now they are some of the industry's most sought-after talents.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
60 Minutes' CECOT segment, pulled by Bari Weiss, was mistakenly aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country

Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech

Reuters:
Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that “attack” its armed forces

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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
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Stephen Totilo / Axios:
US lawmakers press top game companies about how they assess and mitigate risks of extremist behavior, citing an ADL study on rising extremism in online gaming
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