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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties” — Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan says in exclusive interview community notes won't penalize users
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta says Community Notes will use the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes, but it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its apps — Meta's upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk's X for its similar service.
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Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures — https://about.fb.com/wp-content/ uploads/2025/03/Community-Notes-Launch- Date-Announcement_Header.mp4 — Takeaways
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected — An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast and the International Olympic Committee sign a $3B deal to keep NBC and Peacock as the TV and streaming homes for the Olympics through 2036 — The deal with the IOC also includes technical and advertising support surrounding the games. — In a major deal, Comcast …
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Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal:
Scientific journals struggle with quality control as some scientists say the industry's fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work — Some scientists say the for-profit industry's fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work
Hayden Field / CNBC:
In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material” — After President Trump, in one of his initial actions upon returning to the White House, revoked the country's …
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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
TollBit launches Content Cache, a new tool for its publishing partners that redirects AI crawlers to a TollBit subdomain to license content via micropayments — AI search bots, despite their claims, are sending on average 95.7% less referral traffic than traditional Google search
Columbia Journalism Review:
Wesley Lowery leaves the Investigative Reporting Workshop as the executive editor, after accusations of improper behavior with colleagues and female students — Lowery said he left voluntarily and denied any impropriety or wrongdoing. — Wesley J. Lowery, a Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with NYT Investigations Editor David Enrich on his book Murder the Truth, legal threats faced by publishers, efforts to overturn NYT v. Sullivan, and more — “The rhetoric and actions that Trump and his allies take at a national level are being mimicked across the country at a much smaller level.
Callie Holtermann / New York Times:
The New Yorker updates its style guide after a “reëxamination”, sticking to many heterodox rules but making changes like “Web site” to “website” — An update to the magazine's style guide did away with anachronisms like “Web site” and “in-box.”
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Snapchat introduces AI video Lenses, powered by Snap's in-house generative video model, available to subscribers of the $16/month Snapchat Platinum tier — Snapchat is introducing its first ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively.
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