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11:20 PM ET, March 7, 2023

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Washington Post:
Live updates: Rupert Murdoch said Fox's Hannity, Ingraham may have gone ‘too far,’ court documents show  —  A large cache of documents was released Tuesday as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting System.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
3 early takeaways from the new Dominion-Fox lawsuit documents  —  Fox was a hotbed of backbiting, and its vaunted news division wasn't as neutral as it claimed to be  —  Tuesday brought yet more documents in Dominion Voting Systems' high-stakes lawsuit against Fox News over Fox's handling …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Murdoch confided Trump was going ‘increasingly mad’ as Fox pushed false claims  —  The media executive's astonishingly candid assessments are found in thousands of pages of internal Fox documents released as part of a lawsuit by Dominion  —  In the weeks after the November 2020 election …
New York Times:
‘The Whole Thing Seems Insane’: New Documents Shed Light on Debate Inside Fox After Election  —  Messages and depositions from the network's stars like Tucker Carlson revealed serious misgivings about claims of election fraud even as some of the hosts told their audiences of millions a very different story.
Discussion: Washington Post
NBC News:
Private Fox News text messages, testimony and emails released in Dominion suit  —  Hundreds of pages of testimony, private text messages and emails from top Fox News journalists and executives were made public Thursday, adding to the trove of documents that show a network in crisis …
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘I Hate Him Passionately’: What Tucker Carlson Says About Trump in Private  —  More private comments made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson about former President Donald Trump were revealed as part of a trove of new documents released Tuesday as part of Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Rupert Murdoch: Hannity, Ingraham ‘went too far’ in promoting Trump's false claims about 2020 election
Discussion: Insider
NBC News:
‘Bulls—’: GOP senators rebuke Tucker Carlson for downplaying Jan. 6 as ‘mostly peaceful’  —  WASHINGTON — A handful of Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed back on conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he characterized the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as “mostly peaceful chaos …
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CNN:
US Capitol Police chief rips into Tucker Carlson over ‘offensive’ use of January 6 footage  —  Fox News airs first clips of exclusive Jan. 6th footage 05:54  —  US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger on Tuesday ripped into Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his commentary about footage from the January 6 …
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Elon Musk Goes All In On Jan. 6 Denial
Washington Post:
‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 narrative
Discussion: Breitbart and Liberty Nation
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Intelligence contractor who praised Nazis found guilty in Jan. 6 riot
Discussion: CNN
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson
Noah Rothman / National Review:
Tucker Carlson's January 6 Revisionist History
NBC News:
Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names  —  Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter's compliance with settlement  —  Watch: Elon Musk Says a New Twitter CEO Could Be Named by Year-End
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New York Times:
F.T.C. Intensifies Investigation of Twitter's Privacy Practices  —  The commission is seeking an interview with Elon Musk, who has made major cuts at the company since acquiring it last year.  —  The Federal Trade Commission is intensifying an investigation into Twitter's data and privacy practices …
Discussion: House Committee … and Engadget
James Clayton / BBC:
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?  —  A Twitter employee has appealed to Elon Musk on the platform to ask whether he had been sacked.  —  In a tweet to the firm's chief executive, Halli Thorleifsson said: “Your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am employed or not”.
Financial Times:
EU tells Elon Musk to hire more staff to moderate Twitter  —  Regulators are concerned that platform aims to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to monitor content  —  Elon Musk and the EU are in a dispute over the Twitter owner's plan to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle  —  Gigi Sohn notified the White House she would drop out after her nomination stalled for 16 months, amid industry opposition  —  Biden's pick to serve as a telecommunications regulator is withdrawing her nomination …
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New York Times:
Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say  —  New intelligence reporting amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe.
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Washington Post:
Intelligence officials suspect Ukraine partisans behind Nord Stream bombings, rattling Kyiv's allies
Discussion: The Guardian
Giulia Carbonaro / Newsweek:
Walgreens Stock Plummets After Gavin Newsom Vows to Cut Business Ties  —  The shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance, which owns the Walgreens retail pharmacy chain in the U.S., have dropped since California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state won't deal with the company over its abortion pills stance.
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
A new nuclear reactor in the U.S. starts up.  It's the first in nearly seven years  — On Monday, Georgia Power announced that the Vogtle nuclear reactor Unit 3 has started a nuclear reaction inside the nuclear reactor.  Technically, this is called “initial criticality” …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire … Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.  Visiting the Tor-specific onion site address …
New York Times:
Trump, Vowing ‘Retribution,’ Foretells a Second Term of Spite  —  In a speech before his supporters, the former president charged forward in an uncharted direction, talking openly about leveraging the power of the presidency for political reprisals.  —  Donald J. Trump has for decades trafficked …
Discussion: The Wrap and Mediaite
NBC News:
Conflict with China is inevitable unless U.S. changes course, Beijing's new foreign minister warns  —  BEIJING — The United States and China are hurtling toward inevitable “confrontation and conflict” unless Washington changes course, Beijing's new foreign minister warned Tuesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China Plunge Further Into a Spiral of Hostilities
Discussion: The Diplomat
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
House GOP Chairman Calls It ‘A Mistake’ That Trump Didn't Bomb Meth Labs In Mexico  —  Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) appears to be the only House Republican wishing we had launched a military attack on a longtime U.S. ally.  —  The House Republican chairman with oversight of border issues …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Might've Let Russia ‘Take Over’ Parts of Ukraine  —  While Trump told Hannity on the radio he could've prevented war by negotiating a deal with Russia, that portion was curiously edited out when aired on Fox News.  —  Donald Trump has long insisted …
Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
The House Is About To Have 435 Members.  That's Pretty Rare.  —  The House Is About To Have 435 Members.  That's Pretty Rare.  —  By Geoffrey Skelley  —  Mar. 7, 2023, at 6:00 AM  —  When Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan is sworn into the House of Representatives this evening …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
Oklahoma Voters Reject Effort To Legalize Recreational Marijuana  —  Opponents seized on problems with existing medical marijuana regulations and crime in the campaign to stop full legalization.  —  Oklahoma voters on Tuesday turned back an effort to legalize recreational marijuana, defeating a statewide ballot measure.
Alfredo Peña / Associated Press:
2 kidnapped Americans found dead in Mexico, 2 are alive  —  Two of four Americans were killed in Mexico when their van was caught in the crossfire of rival cartel groups last week, a top Mexican official said Tuesday.  The two others are alive, with one wounded.
Alfred Ng / Politico:
The privacy loophole in your doorbell  —  The week of last Thanksgiving, Michael Larkin, a business owner in Hamilton, Ohio, picked up his phone and answered a call.  It was the local police, and they wanted footage from Larkin's front door camera.  —  Larkin had a Ring video doorbell …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Washington Post:
Available evidence still points to covid originating from spillover  —  Angela Rasmussen is a virologist and principal research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.  Saskia Popescu is an infectious-disease epidemiologist …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Axios:
Semafor's China problem  —  Semafor, the 5-month-old news startup, is drawing criticism in the U.S. for partnering with a think tank in China that is known to have close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.  The group has in the past obscured those ties to Western audiences.
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The Real Danger Isn't Trump or DeSantis  —  It's the illiberal desires of Republican voters.  Plus: Hogan makes his exit.  —  1. Shark vs. Alligator vs. Gorilla  —  I'm back and I have some thoughts on the “who's worse, Trump or DeSantis?” conversation from last week.1
 
 
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‘Our staff is working their tail off’: Jim Jordan responds to critics of his probe's slow start
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