What free speech on Twitter means for ads...

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In this edition: 

Elon Musk, Twitter’s Future, and Advertisers 
On TechCrunch, Sarah Perez reports that Musk believes free speech is critical to Twitter’s future, and goes on to look at what less moderation on the platform could mean for advertisers and the platform’s ad revenue.

Court Rules In Favor of LinkedIn Scraping Tools
Per Forbes, an appeals court ruled that “web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites and storing it for later use—is legal, protecting a tool used by researchers but dealing a blow to Microsoft-owned social networking site LinkedIn.”

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TikTok Interactive Add-Ons for Ads 
Enhance your In-Feed Ads with Standard or Premium add-ons to capture the undivided attention of your audience in a full-screen, sound-on environment to boost brand engagement and encourage interaction.

New YouTube Shorts Shelf
YouTube has announced the new shelf will display on the Trending page, which will highlight the best performing Shorts clips, in your region, at any given time.