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11:15 AM ET, July 15, 2024

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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
MSNBC pulls Morning Joe on Monday, a source says due to worries that a guest might make an inappropriate comment about Donald Trump's attempted assassination  —  New York CNN —  —  MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around Donald Trump's assassination attempt; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets  —  Conspiracy theories about the shooting at a Trump rally began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon …
Tom Jones / Poynter:
A look at the coverage of the assassination attempt on Trump, including top networks and outlets providing hours of reporting with no errors or controversies  —  The Associated Press photographer who made the now-famous photo said he never thought about the danger of the moment.  He was too caught up in his job.
Max Tani / Semafor:
MSNBC and other liberal outlets face a backlash from some viewers and listeners about their coverage of Biden's age; NPR says it is flooded with complaints  —  The News  —  President Joe Biden has lost the media.  Even the most sympathetic outlets — the liberal MSNBC, the gentle NPR …
David Hellier / Bloomberg:
Source: the board of France's Ligue de Football Professionnel backed a deal with Dazn and the Qatari sports broadcaster beIN to screen live matches this season  —  France's elite professional football league backed a broadcast deal with Len Blavatnik's streaming group Dazn Group Ltd …
Jason Parham / Wired:
Q&A with Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, on Elon Musk's lawsuit, election disinformation, social media harms, AI, and more  —  Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, is unsentimental about what's at stake if we don't curb the spread …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more  —  She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential  —  Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election  —  - While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
An experiment where writers had access to GPT-4 for short story ideas finds it boosted creativity for some but reduced the collective diversity of novel content  —  A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared …
Anuj Ahooja / augment:
Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform  —  It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.
Associated Press:
A judge dismisses Alec Baldwin's manslaughter case in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, after ruling prosecutors withheld evidence  —  A New Mexico judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin in the middle of his trial and said it cannot be filed again.
 
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Sachita Nishal / Nieman Lab:
How AI models can help reporters save time by helping them understand complex, jargon-heavy documents, particularly in fields like science and technology
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
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Tony Mecia / The Charlotte Ledger:
McClatchy's Charlotte Observer is scaling back print editions to three days a week starting September 16, down from six days, and will rely on USPS for delivery
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Three US senators introduce the COPIED Act, which aims to give journalists, songwriters, and artists tools to fight AI models using their work without consent
Rest of World:
A profile of FlowGPT, a Chilean artist who made a hit song using AI to clone Justin Bieber and Bad Bunny's voices and calls his AI songs “demos”
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games in 2025, as part of a newly announced 12-year partnership with the Olympic Committee
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
After X hyped shows with Paris Hilton, Tucker Carlson, and others in January 2024, the deals have fizzled, a source says due to a lack of advertiser interest
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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