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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 …
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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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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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Paramount Global and Comcast renew distribution agreements to deliver Paramount's portfolio, including Paramount+ with Showtime, across Xfinity platforms — Paramount Global and Comcast have renewed a set of comprehensive distribution agreements to continue delivering Par's portfolio of broadcast …
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Reddit unveils Reddit Pro Trends, which allows companies to see what users are discussing about “virtually anything” on Reddit, and a new ad format for AMAs — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Reddit unveiled new trends tools aimed at businesses and a new ad format for its Ask Me Anything (AMA) Q&A sessions.
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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 …
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Axios:
TikTok's sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations — - ByteDance could be betting that regulators and app store companies are so focused on TikTok they won't pay attention to its other apps.
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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.
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence update “in the coming weeks” that “will further clarify” when it is summarizing notifications — Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelligence (AI) …
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google unveils a Gemini-powered News Brief feature on Google TV that summarizes news stories from the internet and YouTube video headlines from trusted channels — Long gone are the days of simply watching the news. — Google unveiled the latest version of its TV operating system at CES 2025 on Monday.
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Google previews changes coming to Google TV, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, and deeper YouTube integration, rolling out later in 2025
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