This is a daily digest of news stories from around the media world, updated by The Media Leader team, to ensure you’re 100% up-to-date.

In brief: Twitter has accused Elon Musk of “conjuring” the issue of spam bots on the platform to back out of its $44bn acquisition deal in legal filings made public on Thursday.

In brief: the $4.1m is in compensatory damages; the jury is still deciding on how much Jones must pay in punitive damages.

In brief: Sinclair’s total Q2 advertising revenues declined 25% from $491m in Q2 2021 to $366m in Q2 2022.

In brief: over half (57%) of Stagwell’s Q2 revenues were attributed to digital services, with organic year-over-year growth in digital revenues of 28%.

Paramount+ added 3.7 million net subscribers to grow to 43 million globally and grew revenue 120%

In brief: In addition, Roku has created a dedicated live TV guide for Paramount+ live content, the first time it has done so.

In brief: the closure follows objections from Conservatives over concerns that user data on TikTok can be accessed from China.

In brief: Facebook has earned significant ad revenue from anti-abortion orgs who have paid to run ads that spread misinformation about abortion procedures.

In brief: The New York Times Company added 180,000 digital-only subscribers in Q2 2022, but generated 2.4% less revenue than Q2 2021.