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2:25 AM ET, July 15, 2022

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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Glenn Kessler's Washington Post “fact check” of an IndyStar story on a 10-year-old who had to get an abortion in Indiana mainstreamed doubting its credibility  —  On July 1, the Indianapolis Star reported that a 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to receive an abortion.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
After Roe, reporters may have to rely on a single source, on the record, to tell stories about the end of legal abortion, as others stay quiet to avoid arrest  —  In America after the end of Roe v. Wade, one brave source, on the record, is often the best we are going to get.
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The Guardian:
Guardian News and Media appoints The Intercept's EIC Betsy Reed as editor of Guardian US, replacing John Mulholland, who earlier announced he would step down  —  GNM press office  —  Guardian News and Media today announces the appointment of Betsy Reed as new editor of Guardian US.
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Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Report: in the days before January 6, Chinese hackers targeted US journalists with malicious emails to find out if there would be a peaceful transfer of power  —  Washington (CNN Business)In the days before the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Chinese hackers sent out a flurry of malicious emails …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Beyoncé joins TikTok, gaining 3.3M+ followers in her first day on the platform, and offers her entire catalog for users to choose from as music for their videos  —  Pop superstar Beyoncé has joined the short-form video app (link) — and her entire catalog is now available …
Annabelle Dickson / Politico:
UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, halting the bill's progress until the fall, amid Johnson's resignation  —  LONDON — Progress on Britain's proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall …
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ is likely to reject Alphabet's concessions and file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks over Google's dominance of the online ad market  —  The US Justice Department is likely to reject concessions offered by Alphabet Inc., clearing the way for an antitrust lawsuit …
Science:
A study comparing the consumption of partisan online news to TV news suggests that television is the top driver of partisan audience segregation among Americans  —  Abstract Partisan segregation within the news audience buffers many Americans from countervailing political views, posing a risk to democracy.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Originals Global Head Nadine Zylstra leaves YouTube to be Pinterest's global head of programming and original content, reporting to CCO Malik Ducard  —  Previously, Zylstra had been YouTube's head of kids and learning originals; YouTube is continuing to develop programing that is part of its Black Voices and YouTube Kids funds.
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Nintendo acquires CG production company Dynamo Pictures, which will focus on producing “visual content utilizing Nintendo IP” under the name Nintendo Pictures  —  To ‘focus on development of visual content’ using Nintendo intellectual property  —  Nintendo has acquired CG …
Claire Atkinson / Insider:
Sources: former Disney CEO Bob Iger clashed with the company's board over succession planning and “greatly regretted” choosing Bob Chapek “as soon as COVID hit”  —  - When Bob Iger stepped down as Disney CEO, he planned to mentor successor Bob Chapek through a two-year handoff.
 
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Alyssa Farah Griffin, who started at her father's WND and became Trump's White House communications director, changed her public posture as she sought TV jobs
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Charlotte Hu / Popular Science:
The Internet Archive asks for a summary judgment to end four publishers' 2020 lawsuit against it, as its Controlled Digital Lending program is “lawful fair use”
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A woman wrote 206 interconnected Chinese Wikipedia articles since 2019 with false accounts of medieval Russian history, in one of the largest hoaxes on the site
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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group representing 75+ PBS NewsHour workers requests union recognition, and a spokesperson for the news unit's parent station says management plans to accept
The Verge:
Netflix names Microsoft as its “global advertising technology and sales partner” for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier, rumored to arrive later in 2022
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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