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Pranav Dixit / Business Insider:
Audio: Meta told the International Fact-Checking Network that its US partnerships will end in March but Community Notes rollout is expected to take time — - Meta plans to end US fact-checking partnerships in March, with payments to continue through August.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Meta revamping its content moderation systems with Community Notes is good, but Zuckerberg pretending it's about free speech is bad, and the timing is stupid — When the NY Times declared in September that “Mark Zuckerberg is Done With Politics,” it was obvious this framing was utter nonsense.
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Variety:
Los Angeles fires prompt cancellation of movie premieres and tapings of Jimmy Kimmel Live and After Midnight, and the Critics Choice Awards have been postponed — “Jimmy Kimmel Live” has been canceled Wednesday night, because of the fires that have been raging throughout Los Angeles since Tuesday, Variety has confirmed.
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Business Insider:
Instagram ends a program that paid creators for ads placed between content on their profiles; Meta began testing the program in the US in 2022 — Instagram has ended a program that allowed creators to earn money from ads placed between content on their profiles, the company confirmed to Business Insider.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms do content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe — As platform scales back moderation in line with conservative demands in the U.S., it still has to maneuver through stiffer regulations in Europe and elsewhere.
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Philip Blenkinsop / Reuters:
EU rejects Zuckerberg's claim that “Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship”, saying it only requires illegal content removal
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Adam Mosseri says Meta is adding political content recommendations to Instagram and Threads; Threads' political content control setting will have three options — It's been nearly a year since Instagram and Threads defaulted to blocking recommendations of “political” content from accounts …
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out Daily Listen, which uses AI to generate a five-minute personalized audio overview of stories and topics that a user follows, to its mobile app — Google is kicking off a new experiment in Search Labs today called “Daily Listen.” It's a bit like NotebookLM's Audio Overviews, while there are also podcast parallels.
Financial Times:
Internal 2023 docs: Meta exempted some top advertisers from its usual content moderation process amid concerns that its systems mistakenly penalized top brands — Social media giant's ‘guardrails’ intended to ‘protect high spenders’ amid internal concern its systems over-enforced rules
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
A book by a Politico reporter claims Trump's team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance; Fox is probing — New York CNN — — President-elect Donald Trump's team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall …
Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
Podcast publisher iHeartMedia and the NFL extend their partnership, with plans to debut new original podcasts and NFL Club shows each year as part of the deal — Podcast publisher iHeartMedia and the National Football League have extended their partnership, and are planning to create …
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube Music is testing Monthly Audience, a public metric that will show an artist's total number of unique listeners and viewers across all formats — Artist pages in YouTube Music have long included a subscriber count that's very much carried over from the main app, and Google is now testing a new “Monthly Audience Metric.”
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Peter White / Deadline:
Sources: Peacock President Kelly Campbell is leaving Comcast's NBCUniversal three years after she joined the company; she was previously president of Hulu — Peacock President Kelly Campbell is leaving NBCUniversal, Deadline has confirmed. — It comes three years after she joined …
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Ben Lang / Road to VR:
Infinite Reality, which is building an engine for creating immersive web content, says it has raised $3B from an unnamed private investor at a $12.25B valuation — Infinite Reality, a company building an engine for creating immersive web content underpinned with WebXR support …
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