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3:25 PM ET, March 13, 2025

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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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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
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.
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 …
Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
A look at three examples of how ProPublica has used AI to analyze data, including how journalists wrote AI prompts, with staff reviewing and confirming results  —  When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Brave sues News Corp to try to head off a copyright lawsuit by News Corp, which threatened to sue over Brave's search engine scraping and indexing its content  —  News Corp (NWSA.O) has been sued by Google search engine rival Brave Software, which seeks to forestall a lawsuit by Rupert Murdoch's company …
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.
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 …
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 …
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches a program to publish audiobooks from independent authors; it will pay an advance and royalties and will handle the production and distribution
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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
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Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
French publishers and authors sue Meta for allegedly training AI on their books without consent, saying they have evidence of “massive” copyright breaches
Max Tani / Semafor:
NPR says it will now let All Things Considered anchor Ari Shapiro attend a corporate Pride event, after a leaked email showed NPR dissuading him from doing so
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Food delivery startup Wonder acquires media company Tastemade, sources say for ~$90M, the latest step in its effort to create a mealtime “super app”
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Bill Simmons says he has agreed to a new Spotify contract and will continue his show for at least two years; he'll also serve as Spotify's head of talk strategy
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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