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5:05 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 …
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, Next TV, The Desk and About DISH
Jon Allsop / Vanity Fair:
Will Lewis should be held accountable as a powerful executive and not simply seen through a parochial US lens that views UK journalists as having lax ethics  —  Will Lewis's ethical imbroglio has led to caricatures of British editors.  But the Washington Post publisher should be held accountable …
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.
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Melody Kramer about the Triangle Blog Blog, a progressive all-volunteer group blog she founded covering civics and news in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC  —  To what extent can, and can't, a well-researched progressive civics blog serve as local news?
Discussion: @localnewsini
Zak Butler / The Keyword:
An overview of China's Dragonbridge multiyear disinfo campaign that uses AI-generated content and spans several social networks to target geopolitical rivals  —  The most prolific PRC-linked influence operator continues to lean into US social wedge issues, Taiwan and major news events …
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, and other AI training datasets form the Dataset Providers Alliance to advocate for “ethical data sourcing”  —  OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems …
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 …
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.
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  —  A plane believed to be carrying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday.  Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge …
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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
 
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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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Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Filing: Apple asks to participate in the remedial phase of Google's US antitrust case, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements

Tharin Pillay / Time:
A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging in response to the rapid progress of models, including FrontierMath, Humanity's Last Exam, and RE-Bench

Bloomberg:
Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace approves lifting its ban on “certain widely used foreign platforms”, naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps
 
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