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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard plans to fully integrate with ActivityPub and is testing the move with select accounts, like Semafor, Medium, Polygon, Kotaku, Digiday, and The Verge — Instagram Threads isn't the only app joining the decentralized social web, which includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and other apps …
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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
MGM+ partners with Lionsgate on a licensing deal to expand into Latin America as part of its international rollout, starting with Brazil and Mexico in January — Under the pact, the MGM+ offer will boast leading series and movies from Lionsgate and Starz, alongside iconic films …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Diamond Sports Group about an investment and a multiyear streaming partnership; Diamond would keep operating its cable networks — E-commerce giant would partner with Diamond on streaming as part of deal under discussion — Amazon is in talks to invest …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Puck announces a sports vertical, to be led by veteran SBJ reporter John Ourand; a source says Puck's $13M Series B over the summer valued the company at $70M+ — New York CNN — — Puck is stepping into the sports arena. — The buzzy digital subscription publication that offers readers …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into X, focusing on “illegal content and disinformation”, ad transparency, “deceptive design”, and data access — X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, may have broken the European Union's tough new Digital Service Act rules …
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@safety, European Commission, @thierrybreton, New York Times, Semafor, @jamestitcomb, The Hill, UPI, @vorobyov, The Information, @artemr, CNN, The Wrap, @mistakenotmy@threads.net, SiliconANGLE, @willoremus, Variety, Engadget, Washington Post, Gizmodo, New York Post, The Guardian, Associated Press, Wired, TechCrunch, @jonathanreed@techhub.social, 9to5Mac, @padraig@mastodon.ie, BBC, Politico, The Indian Express, CNBC, Bloomberg, @carnage4life@mas.to and The Daily Beast, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
The trial of Hong Kong media mogul and activist Jimmy Lai begins; Lai faces possible life imprisonment if convicted on charges of collusion with foreign forces — Media mogul faces up to life in prison if convicted under national security law — HONG KONG—The most high-profile case …
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
How incarcerated journalists inside San Quentin prison are making podcasts about life behind bars and winning awards, despite facing retaliation and censorship — Inside San Quentin, residents are drawing mainstream audiences and shifting narratives about life behind bars
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Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
NewsGuard: since May 2023, websites hosting AI-created false articles have grown from 49 to 600+; some generate “hundreds if not thousands of articles” per day — AI is making it easy for anyone to create propaganda outlets, producing content that can be hard to differentiate from real news
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The Guardian:
Sources: the UK's Labour party won't oppose plans to weaken press regulation as its leaders court rightwing media owners like Rupert Murdoch before the election — The party has made it clear that Keir Starmer had no intention of reviving the second stage of the Leveson inquiry
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@fisherandrew79, @premnsikka, @edwinhayward, @akankwaku, Politico, @ta_mills, @Wen@mastodon.scot and @ScepticalScot1@mastodon.scot
Mikhail Klimentov / ReaderGrev:
A postmortem of The Washington Post's Launcher gaming vertical: 20 staff laid off, a lack of resources, executives' under appreciation of gaming media, and more — Why did The Washington Post kill its video game vertical? … November would have marked my four-year anniversary at Launcher …
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@leadergrev, @leadergrev, @leadergrev, @leadergrev, @rcmacleod, @jacobwolf, @leadergrev, @alykkat and @paytherow
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: The Messenger editors clashed with publisher Jimmy Finkelstein in November after a directive to remove Donald Trump “trial coverage” from the homepage — The Scoop — During former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York last month …
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@jeremymbarr
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Newsquest's head of editorial AI, Jody Doherty-Cove, says the UK regional publisher now employs seven AI-assisted reporters publishing “thousands of articles” — The company's head of editorial AI said it had published “thousands” of AI-assisted articles.
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