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2:30 PM ET, June 26, 2024

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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms in the First Amendment case of Murthy v. Missouri  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in a Russian Court for the start of his closed-door trial on espionage charges, which he denies  —  Proceedings lack due process, at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow  —  Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appeared …
Trevor Timm / The Guardian:
Assange's plea deal doesn't create an official precedent, but he still had to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act for a “crime” outlets commit regularly  —  Instead of just dropping the case, the Biden administration got a guilty plea and set a dangerous tone for reporters everywhere
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Associated Press:
Julian Assange pleads guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a deal with the US, letting him go free after spending five years in a British prison
Jay Peters / The Verge:
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock  —  Legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on Peacock — well, an AI-generated Al Michaels voice will.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Dish offers customers who sign up for a two-year contract a new bundle with Netflix's ad-supported tier for free, or its ad-free tiers at a $7/month discount  —  The satellite TV company is giving its customers access to Netflix's ad-supported tier at no cost, or its ad-free tiers at a discount.
Discussion: Variety, The Desk, Next TV and About DISH
Laura Dobberstein / The Register:
In a rare admission of ad fraud, Yahoo Japan to waive $189M ad revenue, or ~1.6% of parent company LY Corp's FY 2023 revenue, after detecting fraudulent clicks  —  Admits it's not sure some clicks from from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten
Discussion: LINE Yahoo Co., Ltd.
Paul Farhi / Columbia Journalism Review:
Nonresponses from sources to requests for comment in news stories are rife, and growing rapidly; some PR reps defend the silence, depending on circumstances  —  As the author of CNN.com's daily newsletter about the news and entertainment industries, Oliver Darcy regularly reports …
Max Tani / Semafor:
In the last month, Sam Stein, Burgess Everett, and now Jack Shafer have decided to leave Politico; sources: Alex Ward and Lara Seligman are leaving for the WSJ  —  The Scoop  —  The unfolding internal crisis at the Washington Post has obscured drama playing out across the river in Rosslyn, Virginia.
Zoe Samios / Australian Financial Review:
Australia's Seven West axes three top executives amid 150 job cuts at the company, as its commercial deal with Meta, estimated to be worth ~$15M annually, ends  —  Seven West Media chief executive Jeff Howard has lost some of his most senior lieutenants including the head of sport …
 
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Lost In raised a $4M seed and acquired a Berlin-based travel guidebook publisher to build a travel media brand focused on the “premium economy traveler”
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Renée DiResta / New York Times:
Stanford Internet Observatory's former research director details the online rumor mill that led to SIO ending its rapid-response election observation work
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
ElevenLabs debuts its first iOS app, which turns any English-language text, including from PDFs and ePubs, into narrations by one of its “human-like voices”
Discussion: Digital Trends
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Smashing, a content recommendation app that uses AI to offer news summaries and key excepts, launches into an invite-only beta with $3.4M in seed funding