Fri. 12/16 – I Lied. More Twitter News Today.

Elon Musk has once again proven that the flesh is weak because there’s a new Twitter controversy and I can’t help but tell you about it. Is it a good look when the accounting firm writing reports to prove crypto companies are solvent says it will no longer work with crypto companies? Is Netflix’s ad-supported tier not signing up as many eyeballs as advertisers hoped? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Links:

• Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account and bans links to Mastodon servers (TechCrunch)
• Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company (NBCNews)
• Accountant That Vetted Binance Reserves Halts Crypto Work (Bloomberg)
• Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets (Digiday)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Spotify’s grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project (TechCrunch)
• YouTube Stars Cash In Video Rights for Millions of Dollars (WSJ)
• ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment (Ben Evans)