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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: Twitter hides a tweet, reportedly from Iran's head of state, for pointing out that a previous leader's verdict to murder novelist Salman Rushdie is still valid -
Hollywood Reporter: Univision reports Q4 revenue of $688.5M, down 8.9% YoY and a loss of $40.2M amid ongoing carriage dispute with Dish — The Spanish-language media giant reported lower revenue … -
Bob Bauer / The Atlantic: The AMI-Bezos conflict is a case study of legal exposure that can stem from flouting journalistic norms and of how norms relate to constitutional protections -
James Vincent / The Verge: OpenAI says it won't release the dataset behind GPT-2, its new text generator algorithm that can write, translate, and summarize text, due to fears of misuse -
Todd Spangler / Variety: SEC filing: Spotify paid ~$337M to buy Gimlet Media and Anchor; Spotify told investors it expects to spend $400M-$500M in total on podcast acquisitions in 2019 -
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed: Sources detail the “generational shift” occurring at the BBC, as it loses four high-profile male presenters in recent months, including David Dimbleby -
Gwilym Mumford / The Guardian: BBC says This Week, its late night politics show hosted by Andrew Neil, will conclude this summer after 16 years on the air -
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: Facebook says it is exploring ways to address anti-vaccine misinformation including reducing or removing it from recommendations and demotion in search results -
Kim Lyons / Columbia Journalism Review: Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh files complaint with National Labor Review Board, claiming Post-Gazette's publisher threatened to fire staff for union activity -
Melynda Fuller / MediaPost: Hearst Magazines names its first chief data officer, Mike Smith, in charge of ad products, digital ad operations, and data capabilities -
Duncan Cooper / Pitchfork: While some artists whose music is used in TikTok videos are compensated through their labels' sales of blanket licenses, others forgo payment for exposure -
Amy X. Wang / Rolling Stone: Interview with the Swedish social science research team behind Spotify Teardown, a forthcoming book that takes a deep look at the music streaming giant -
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