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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Emails: after the Pentagon complained, Fox News quietly amended and removed a story falsely claiming a dead Marine's family had to pay to transport her remains — The network quietly removed the story based on false claims from a congressman but did not apologize or run a correction
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Washington Post:
How roiling tensions among a few community members in Marion, Kansas set in motion the police raid on Marion County Record that made headlines around the world — MARION, Kan. — The phone conversation between the journalist and the town's newly hired police chief quickly turned contentious.
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Sherman Smith / Kansas Reflector:
Marion County Sheriff's Office agrees to destroy the files that the police copied from the Marion County Record's computers and illegally kept on a flash drive — Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn and Sheriff Jeff Soyez stand outside the evidence room where an undersheriff signs over newspaper property to a forensic expert.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
A NORC survey finds a substantial rise in philanthropy for journalism over the past five years and suggests outlets tighten ethical rules governing the spending — There has been a “substantial” increase in philanthropic spending for journalism over the past five years …
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
A look at AI chatbot Smart Answers that Foundry trained only on Macworld, PCWorld, Tech Advisor, and TechHive content, and offered to their readers on August 1 — By and large, the goal has been: can we make more pages for ads without paying more writers? — Now, a group of tech outlets …
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Karolle Rabarison / Online Journalism Awards:
The 2023 Online Journalism Awards winners include The Washington Post, The Marshall Project, The Pudding, Honolulu Civil Beat, and Argentina's La Nacion — Winners across 23 categories were announced on Aug. 17 during a virtual celebration hosted by Imaeyen Ibanga, Presenter …
Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
Lawyers for jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appeal a Moscow court's decision to extend his pretrial detention until November 30, 2023 — Appeal follows Moscow court's decision to keep the Wall Street Journal reporter behind bars until at least Nov. 30 while he awaits trial
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Wes Davis / The Verge:
Linus Tech Tips founder Linus Sebastian addresses the theft allegations and ethical missteps, but not sexual harassment claims, that prompted a production pause — Linus Media Group (LMG) founder Linus Sebastian explained LMG's HR policies and how it will improve accuracy and ethics in a video posted to YouTube last night.
Washington Post:
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election
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@carnage4life@mas.to, @Noupside@saturation.social, @sarahellison, @jimfriedlich, @jimfriedlich, @jimfriedlich, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @_jonathanstein, @orpheuseu, The Hill, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @Miro_Collas@masto.ai, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @johnshirley2024 …, CBS News, @joshuafoust@appdot.net, @donmoyn.bsky.social, Quartz, The Guardian, TechCrunch and Fox News
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube's algorithm and what counts as a view — YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators' questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.
Stephen King / The Atlantic:
Stephen King reflects on his books being used for AI training, arguing the sum is lesser than its parts, so far, as creativity can't happen without sentience — One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence. — Self-driving cars.
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@galbeckerman, @sstossel, @lmatsakis, @theatlantic, Gizmodo, Insider, @catcheronthesly, @neilturkewitz, @bcmerchant and The Information, more at Techmeme »
Ariel Bogle / The Guardian:
The New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and other outlets block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content; some have also blocked Common Crawl's CCBot — Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT
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