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5:45 PM ET, February 18, 2023

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New York Times:
A court filing in the Dominion-Fox lawsuit shows more texts and emails from hosts and executives privately expressing disbelief about stolen US election claims  —  The comments, by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others, were released as part of a defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voter Systems.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Text messages and emails in the Dominion-Fox suit show that Fox News hosts and executives feared losing audience to Newsmax, which embraced election denialism  —  New York CNN —  —  Fox News has been exposed like never before.  —  A trove of newly-released text messages and emails …
Issac J. Bailey / Nieman Reports:
The New York Times' response to criticism of its trans coverage portrayed serious journalists as radical activists, a route too many outlets take if challenged  —  More than 1,000 Times contributors have sent an open letter asking for the paper of record to examine its biases in reporting on trans issues.
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The Daily Beast:
Memo: The New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn defends the outlet's trans coverage and warns staff and contributors not to campaign or attack colleagues  —  “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists” in protests over the paper's coverage of trans issues, its executive editor wrote.
Hayden Vernon / The Guardian:
Book publisher Puffin has hired sensitivity readers, who spot problematic language, to rewrite parts of Roald Dahl's children's books, cutting words like “fat”  —  Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompas are gender neutral
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Some news outlets including The Wall Street Journal raise questions on whether OpenAI used their articles to train ChatGPT without paying for the content  —  Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train its artificial intelligence tool without paying them.
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Source: Microsoft is demoing the Bing chatbot to ad agencies and is testing inserting paid search ads and industry-specific ad formats into the responses  —  Microsoft (MSFT.O) has started discussing with ad agencies how it plans to make money from its revamped Bing search engine powered …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NewsGuild members repeatedly hijacked topics on a C-SPAN morning call-in show to accuse C-SPAN board member and Block CEO Allan Block of union busting  —  The official topics were the debt limit, energy policy and the end of federal covid-relief funding, but that's not what many people wanted …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
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Tyler Aquilina / Variety:
Fall 2022 global survey: 72% of streaming customers reported becoming frustrated with finding something to watch and 25%+ took 10+ minutes to choose something  —  Can't decide what to watch on Netflix?  Well, it's not going to get any easier.  —  The streamer has officially discontinued its …
 
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