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Welcome to Scotch and Watch, coming to you this week from the Malecón, in Havana, Cuba.

I briefly worked here as an undercover reporter in the 1990s and have returned with Netflix to make a three-part documentary for release next year about that adventure.

This Scotch and Watch newsletter was created to share the headlines and insights that my colleagues and I are reading about the collision of Big Media and Big Tech.

Not surprising then that the story getting the most airtime among my mates is one about spying in Cuba and Meta, given that I was accused of spying here myself…