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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
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Meta, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Engadget, Nicola Mendelsohn Cbe on LinkedIn, Mashable, The Verge, Quartz, Business Insider, The Daily Wire and TESLARATI, more at Techmeme »


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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Google releases its proposals for White House's AI Action Plan, arguing that “fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions” are “critical” to AI development — Google, following on the heels of OpenAI, published a policy proposal in response to the Trump Administration's call for a national “AI Action Plan.”


Reuters journalist Raphael Satter sues the Indian government for revoking his Overseas Citizen status, after he wrote about hack-for-hire company Appin in 2023 — Raphael Satter had his OCI card taken away after publishing a story critical of an Indian businessman
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Talking Biz News, @freedomofpress, @asherwolf.bsky.social and @privatechand.bsky.social


John Feinstein, a Washington Post sportswriter who wrote more than 40 books including A Season on the Brink, about basketball coach Bob Knight, has died at 69 — He had a long affiliation with The Washington Post and wrote books including “A Season on the Brink,” about Indiana University men's basketball coach Bob Knight.
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Awful Announcing, UPI, Fox News, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, TMZ.com, Deadline, KSDK-TV, New York Daily News, Washington Monthly, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Post, Barrett Media, @knoxrob1.bsky.social, @tommytomlinson.bsky.social, @petegain.es, @lukedecock.bsky.social, @jadande.bsky.social, @bfquinn.bsky.social, @norlander.bsky.social, @sethemerson.bsky.social, @sallyjenx.bsky.social, @lukerussert.bsky.social and r/Journalism


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 …


A look at the success of Chinese animated movie Ne Zha 2, grossing $2B+ globally, and its impact on the Chinese film industry and Hollywood's future in China — Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2 recently became the first non-Hollywood movie to cross $2B worldwide, and in so doing joins …
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@thedragonfeeder and @deadline


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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The Desk, The Verge, Sportico, The Guardian, NBCSports.com, Los Angeles Times, Quartz, Media Play News, The Hill, TVNewsCheck, KING-TV, Axios, The Information, CNBC, Reuters, Deseret News, Cord Cutters News, Front Office Sports, @kevdgrussing.bsky.social, @brianstelter, @alexweprin, Variety, @alexweprin, The Wrap, @loudmouthjulia, Barrett Media, Sports Video Group, Awful Announcing, Bloomberg, Deadline and WTOP News


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 …
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TVNewsCheck, The Register, MediaPost and Bloomberg Law


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
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@eschares@scholar.social and Georg M. on LinkedIn


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