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7:20 PM ET, September 6, 2024

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Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
The Tenet Media case highlights both the lack of transparency in the creator economy and the threat this poses to media integrity  —  We need to know who is funding the creator economy  —  Yesterday, a federal indictment revealed that a Tennessee media company working with right-wing …
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Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
A Tenet Media contributor tweeted that Tenet “has ended”; its X, Instagram, TikTok, and Rumble pages are online but haven't been updated since the indictment  —  Nothing to see here!  —  A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered …
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Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Most of the six members of Tenet's “talent” team claim they did not know the money they were paid allegedly came from Russia; Lauren Southern has not commented
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Blaze Media's CEO says it has ended its contract with BlazeTV contributor Lauren Chen of Tenet Media, which is alleged to have been funded by Russia
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
As the DirecTV-Disney carriage dispute continues, DirecTV nudges customers to Fubo or Sling and offers a $30 credit, and Disney offers $30 off Hulu with Live TV  —  DirecTV is offering discounts and a $30 credit toward Fubo or Sling, while Disney is offering $30 off the first month of Hulu with Live TV …
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone will get $180M in severance and other benefits on top of $350M from the sale of her 20% stake in National Amusements  —  Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount Global, will get $180 million in severance and other benefits on top of hundreds of millions from the sale …
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
FCC filing: Larry Ellison will own 77.5% of Paramount Global parent company National Amusements after his son David completes Skydance's Paramount acquisition
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
The judge in the Google monopoly ruling says he'll take until August 2025 to determine remedies in the case and asks the DOJ to propose fixes by the end of 2024  —  After ruling against Google last month, Judge Amit P. Mehta said he would take until next August to determine fixes that the company must make.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
The UK CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices, and says Google's “self-preferences” on its own ad exchange harms competition, advertisers, and publishers  —  LONDON — Britain's competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google's ad tech practices …
Saleah Blancaflor / Adweek:
AdImpact: the NFL kickoff game averaged 48.9M US viewers, up from 40.1M in 2023; YouTube and YouTube TV had 16% of the audience, and other streamers had 34%  —  The NFL kickoff game on Thursday averaged 48.9 million viewers, according to AdImpact  —  The Kansas City Chiefs may have won …
Discussion: USA Today, ESPN and Tv Technology
Jake Lahut / Columbia Journalism Review:
The decline of local news has made it harder for political campaigns to connect to locals and forced them to run on national issues to get cable news attention  —  At a post-Memorial Day event earlier this year, Elissa Slotkin, one of the nation's top Democratic candidates for US Senate …
A.G. Sulzberger / Washington Post:
US politicians could curtail the free press using tactics common among some foreign leaders, but the press must resist being baited into taking a political side  —  Some foreign leaders have ruthlessly curtailed journalism.  U.S. politicians could draw from their playbook.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The INN approved 48% of newsrooms that applied for its membership in 2023, as others failed to meet its standards which include prohibitions on “dark money”  —  Here's a nugget from the Institute for Nonprofit News that might come up as we creep ever closer to the 2024 elections.
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Filing: OnlyFans revenue rose 20% YoY to ~$1.31B for the FY ending November 2023; creator accounts grew 29% YoY to ~4.1M and gross payments reached $6.6B  —  OnlyFans revenue rose 20% to about $1.31 billion for the fiscal year ending November 2023, compared to the previous year …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
In a financial report, All3Media declares a £90.3M cash injection from RedBird IMI, which bought the British production company for £1.15B in February 2024  —  All3Media disclosed the liquidity boost in its first set of earnings since being acquired for £1.15B by RedBird IMI …
Discussion: City A.M.
 
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Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters:
Sources: Starboard files a shareholder resolution to end dual-class shares that give Rupert Murdoch control of News Corp; Murdoch has ignored similar proposals
Discussion: CNBC
Ben Werdmuller / Werd I/O:
Meta not disclosing which select creators it pays to post on Threads undermines trust in everyone's motivations, as users assume others are “engagement farming”
Clay Risen / New York Times:
J. Richard Munro, who was Time's CEO from 1980 to 1990 and led the publication through its acquisition of Warner Communications, died on August 11 at age 93
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Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
YouTube begins limiting repeated video recommendations about fitness levels, body weights, physical features, and more to teens globally, expanding from the US
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect against copying creators' likeness, including their faces and voices, and plans to offer AI scraping controls