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Fox Corp's chief legal officer, Viet Dinh, will leave his post at the end of 2023 and become a special adviser to Fox, following the $787.5M Dominion settlement — - Viet Dinh is departing as Fox chief legal and policy officer — Fox paid $787.5 million to settle suit over vote-fraud claims
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Major outlets including Insider, Variety, and the LA Times had to walk back their reporting about the supposed death of child rapper Lil Tay — A post on Lil Tay's Instagram account announced her death. A day later, it was removed. — Lil Tay's life has always been shocking …
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Herbert J. Siegel, a billionaire entertainment industry mogul who enabled the 1989 Time Warner merger and sold 10 TV stations to News Corp. in 2000, dies at 95 — As head of Chris-Craft Industries, he played a role in the Time-Warner merger and sold 10 television stations to Rupert Murdoch.


A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT — Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …
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A look at bundling by smaller streamers, telcos' potential role in bundling, and opposition to sharing the same user interface among big streamers — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!


X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count” — Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, said late Thursday that it is lowering requirements for its creator payout program.
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Writers for the series Suits, which aired from 2011 to 2019 and has received renewed interest on Netflix and Peacock, criticize their paltry streaming residuals — As WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes persist and tens of thousands of people withhold labor in pursuit of equitable streaming residuals …
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FC Barcelona plans to list its content creation unit Barca Media on the Nasdaq in Q4 2023 via a $1B SPAC merger, 80% owned by existing Barca Media shareholders — Spanish football's FC Barcelona will list its content creation unit Barca Media in the US via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company …


The IRS files a claim in Vice Media Group's bankruptcy case saying that Refinery29 owes the US government ~$40.9M in back taxes, interest, and penalties — A rep for Vice Media Group did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the IRS claim. Vice Media completed the acquisition …
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To fight spam, YouTube plans to deactivate links in Shorts descriptions, comments, and the vertical feed from August 31 and make social media icons unclickable — The move follows other anti-spam measures. — YouTube knows that it has a spam problem, particularly when it comes to its two-year-old Shorts feature.


The New York Times updated its terms of service on August 3, aiming to prevent AI companies from using the media organization's content to train their systems — Many large language models are trained using website content without permission - and some brands are demanding compensatation.
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Diana Marcum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former feature writer for the Los Angeles Times, San Bernardino Sun, Desert Sun, and Fresno Bee, dies at 60 — Diana Marcum forged a career, and a life, by giving a voice to Californians whom many people didn't take time to notice.
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An interview with X CEO Linda Yaccarino on her having “autonomy” under Elon Musk, brands including Coca-Cola and Visa returning under her leadership, and more — WATCH NOW — X Corp. CEO Linda Yaccarino told CNBC that she has “autonomy” under owner Elon Musk in an interview Thursday …
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