Kevin Draper, New York Times: “Kansas newspaper is talk of town, and not just for getting raided”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Kansas newspaper to regain items seized in controversial police raid”
Musk: ‘X could fail’
Alex Griffing, Mediaite: “Musk blasted for plan to remove headlines from news articles: ‘Wants to replace journalists with news performers’”
Chris Pandolfo, Fox Business: “Elon Musk sticks journalists in the eye with latest X change that will have major impact on newsrooms”
Hibaq Farah, The Guardian: “Elon Musk admits X ‘may fail’ after glitch deletes Twitter photos”
Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post: “Musk now is requiring users of X to pay for access to TweetDeck”
Matt Shuham, HuffPost: “Elon Musk accused of intimidation for threatening an anti-hate speech group”
Eric Hanonoki, Media Matters for America: “Update: Under Linda Yaccarino, X is placing ads for major brands on a verified pro-Hitler account”
Kate Conger, New York Times: “X slows down access to some rival sites”
Meanwhile… in other social spaces
John Brandon, Forbes: “The real reason Threads is struggling to hold our attention”
Reuters, “Meta too soon launch web version of Threads in race with X users”
Clare Duffy, CNN: “Meta’s Threads is finally available on desktop”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Publishers see dramatic drop in Facebook referral traffic as the social platform signals exit from news business”
Open Society Foundation
Philip Oltermann, The Guardian: “George Soros foundation’s retreat from Europe could ‘turn off the lights’ for human rights”
Zselyke Csaky, Bloomberg: “Soros Foundation to end most EU operations in radical shift”
Michael Kahn & Ed Osmond, Reuters: “Soros Foundation to limit EU funding in new strategy – internal email”
Thalia Beaty, Associated Press: “George Soros’ Open Society Foudnations to lay off 40% of staff under son’s new leadership”
Marton Dunai & Alice Hancock, Financial Times: “George Soros foundations to scale back activity in Europe”
‘The Blind Side’
Kim Chaney & Jackson, Brown, ABC 24: “Retired NFL star Michael Oher says Memphis family’s story of his adoption is a lie | “I am disheartened by this revelation shared in the lawsuit’”
Ayana Archie, NPR: “Michael Oher of ‘The Blind Side’ says he wasn’t adopted, but put in a conservatorship”
Michael Fletcher, ESPN: “’Blind Side’ subject Oher alleges Tuohys made millions off lie”
Geoff Calkins, Daily Memphian: “Sean Tuohy responds to ‘Blind Slide’ allegations: ‘We are going to keep loving Michael (Oher)’”
Jonathan Franklin, NPR: “Tuohy family responds to Michael Oher’s allegations of his false adoption”
Max Tani, Semafor: “Inside Michael Lewis’s hero factory”
