Mediagazer: Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all its customers (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:

Germany's government pledges to add a 30% film/TV production tax incentive, effective as early as January 2025; Australia raised its rebate to 30% on July 1 — German studios have been pushing for the incentive, which they say is necessary to remain competitive in attracting international productions.

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Australia raises its Location Offset tax rebate for TV and film productions shooting in the country from the previous 16.5% to 30% — The Australian screen industry is celebrating after the country's Location Offset scheme was raised to 30%. — The legislation, which was announced in May …

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Samantha Waldenberg / CNN:

ABC News plans to air an interview with President Biden “in its entirety as a primetime special”, at 8pm ET on July 5; a transcript will also be available — The ABC News interview with President Joe Biden will now air “in its entirety as a primetime special” …

Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Analysis: Biden has held fewer press conferences and media interviews than any of the last seven US presidents at this point in their terms

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White House reporters say Biden's mental fitness could have been better covered pre-debate, particularly after the release of Robert Hur's report in February

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all its customers — Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models.

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

One expert says UK political parties were on track to spend £1M on Meta and £250K on Google for election day online ads, as Ofcom rules only limit broadcast ads — Digital campaigning gets round media blackout rule restricting broadcasters' coverage while polls are open

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BBC:

Investigation: a fake news network tied to an ex-Florida sheriff, now in Moscow, appears to be targeting US and UK voters; some Congress members shared posts — A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation …

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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:

A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users — Threads launched a year ago Friday but has a fraction of the users of Meta's other platforms. Content creators say they don't consider it important.

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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 175M+ MAUs, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5; source: Meta may turn on ads in Threads in 2025

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

An interview with soccer media company Footballco's North America CEO Jason Wagenheim on expanding its editorial staff, learning from lifestyle brands, and more — Footballco's first CEO for North America is enjoying the “luxury” of setting up a “really big, massive important business” …

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

YouTube updates its Erase Song tool for creators with an AI algorithm to detect and remove any copyrighted music from their videos without impacting other audio — On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music …

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Daniel Tilles / Notes From Poland:

Polish state broadcaster deletes an article that said PM Donald Tusk made “misleading” accusations, supporting claims that Tusk hasn't depoliticized the outlet — Poland's state broadcaster, TVP, has deleted an article from its website that found Prime Minister Donald Tusk to have made …

Alicja Ptak / Notes From Poland:

Polish media protests lawmakers' rejection of an amendment guaranteeing state mediation if an outlet and tech firm fail to agree on compensation for content — Over 350 Polish media outlets, including many of the country's biggest titles, are jointly protesting today against changes …

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Datos: 58.5% of Google searches in the US and 59.7% in the EU result in no clicks; for 1,000 searches, 360 clicks go to the open web in the US and 374 in the EU

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A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements set to take effect on September 4, and plans to rule on August 30

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Telegram rolls out the ability for creators to share paid content to channels using its Stars digital currency and for channels to convert Stars to Toncoin

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Sources: OpenAI considered developing a browser, discussed deals to power AI features on Samsung devices and search on sites and apps from Condé Nast and others

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