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7:50 AM ET, April 20, 2023

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Steven Monacelli / @stevanzetti:
[Thread] Twitter suspends Wired's Dell Cameron, saying he broke hacked material rules, by reporting about a hack of anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account  —  WOW: @dellcam has been suspended by Twitter after reporting about the hack of Matt Walsh's Twitter account https://twitter.com/...
CNN:
Sources and the mediator detail how Fox and Dominion settled, after Dominion notified Fox that Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson were among its first witnesses  —  Veteran mediator Jerry Roscoe was on a relaxing river cruise from Budapest to Bucharest celebrating his 70th birthday on Sunday when he received an urgent phone call.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
For Fox Corp., which ended 2022 with $4.1B in “cash and cash equivalents” on hand, $787.5M is a bargain to avoid more embarrassment and continue its sleazy ways  —  For the media mogul, the massive Dominion settlement fee is just the cost of doing business.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Fox spared its executives and hosts further embarrassment on the witness stand but the $787M settlement sets a benchmark for lawsuits from Smartmatic and others
Washington Post:
The Fox-Dominion settlement is the largest publicly disclosed one in a US defamation case yet; sources: Fox doesn't have to make an on-air correction or apology
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News says its court settlement reflects its “commitment to the highest journalistic standards”, showing that not even court evidence of perfidy can shame it
CNBC:
Fox Corp and its cable networks agree to pay $787.5M to Dominion Voting Systems to settle the defamation lawsuit over Fox's lies about Dominion's machines
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Microsoft plans to drop Twitter support from its ad platform on April 25; users won't be able to access or manage Twitter accounts through Microsoft's tool  —  Yet another big B2B service passes on paying for Twitter's new high-priced API.  —  Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform.
Washington Post:
An analysis of Google's C4 dataset, a snapshot of 15M websites used to train LLMs, shows that half of the Top 10 sites were news outlets like The New York Times  —  AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …
Financial Times:
Internal presentation: Google plans to deploy generative AI in ads, allowing advertisers to supply creative material which will be “remixed” to create campaigns  —  Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products
Carl Sullivan / Flipboard:
Flipboard adds Mastodon accounts corresponding with editorial “desks” to curate content on four topics: news, tech, culture, and science  —  Flipboard joined the Fediverse a couple of months ago when we announced our Mastodon integration and launched our own community …
Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Two reporters in North Carolina were convicted on April 19 of trespassing following their 2021 arrests while covering a homeless encampment; they plan to appeal  —  Two local reporters in North Carolina were convicted Wednesday of misdemeanor trespassing after being arrested while covering …
Pew Research Center:
December 2022 survey: 49% of US adults listened to a podcast in the past year; 87% of those who hear news discussed on podcasts expect it to be mostly accurate  —  About half of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past year, and most of those listeners come across news content
Rosa Flores / CNN:
County official Mark Jennings resigns after an Oklahoma newspaper released audio allegedly of him and others talking about killing journalists and Black people  —  An Oklahoma county commissioner allegedly heard on a recording of local officials that included remarks about lynching Black people and killing journalists has resigned.
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Oklahoma's governor calls on four officials to resign after a newspaper released audio of the group talking about killing journalists and lynching Black people
 
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Kantar: UK households canceled 167K paid streaming service subscriptions in Q1 2023, taking the total down to 29.4M; Netflix was estimated to be the hardest hit
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Fremantle UK names Amelia Brown as its new CEO, replacing Simon Andreae, who stepped down earlier this week after misconduct complaints and two investigations
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How Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler helped The New York Times identify Jack Teixeira, the Air National guardsman charged with leaking classified Pentagon docs
 

 
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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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