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Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta's Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression”, which “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on” — Meta's chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, joins ‘Fox & Friends’ Tuesday morning for exclusive interview
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations” — Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul …
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New York Times:
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content” — The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts.
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Michael Flaherty / Axios:
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business — - Shutterstock shareholders get one of the following: $28.84 per share in cash; 13.67 shares of Getty for each Shutterstock share they own; or a mix of cash and stock.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Washington Post is laying off roughly 4% of its workforce, affecting fewer than 100 people across its business divisions; its newsroom is not affected — The layoffs will affect employees across The Post's business operations, not its newsroom. — The Washington Post …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News in more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has 125M monthly users — Tech group now a force in driving revenues for publishers in US, UK, Canada and Australia — Apple is stepping up plans to expand …
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia unveil an AI assistant for streamers that can act as a cohost and provide technical support for streams in real time — Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia are partnering on a new AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams in real time and even act as a quippy cohost.
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Will Dunn / Bloomberg:
A look at the surge in popularity for books, podcasts, and newsletters on history, even as numbers show a drop in college students formally studying the topic — Books and podcasts about the past are surging in popularity, making them increasingly profitable. — The snow queen's castle was in pieces.
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Greg Evans / Deadline:
Richard Cohen, who won three Emmy Awards for his work at CBS News and was a former senior producer at CBS and CNN, died on December 24 at 76 — Richard Cohen, a former senior producer on CNN and CBS News who was married for 38 years to Today anchor Meredith Vieira, died of following …
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Roku says it passed 90M US streaming households in the first week of January, up from 85.5M in October, and is now in nearly half of all US broadband households — Roku, the pioneer of streaming on TV, passed 90 million streaming households in the first week of January, a milestone, it said …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Avataar debuts Velocity, an AI tool that generates product videos based on a product link, and says HP, Victoria's Secret, Lowe's, and others are using the tool — Generative AI models have reached a baseline capability of producing at least a passable video from a single image or short sentence.
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