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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
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.
David Gilbert / Wired:
Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”  —  Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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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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
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD raises the price of Discovery+ by $1, with its ad-supported plan now costing $5.99 per month, and its ad-free plan costing $9.99 per month
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
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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
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Free London business newspaper City AM confirms it is ending its Monday print edition and will invest instead in more video and audio products
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Fubo is expected to immediately become cash flow positive after its deal with Disney closes in 12 to 18 months; Fubo's stock closed up 253.85% on January 6
 

 
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”

Hayden Field / CNBC:
In a statement with his family, Sam Altman denies the sexual abuse allegations made by his sister Ann in a lawsuit and says she faces “mental health challenges”

Associated Press:
Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets
 
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