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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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@asherwolf.bsky.social, @privatechand.bsky.social, @freedomofpress and Talking Biz News


Bill Ackman's Pershing Square is raising about $1.4B from the sale of a ~2.7% stake in UMG; after the sale, UMG will be about 17% of Pershing's portfolio — A group of Universal Music Group NV shareholders affiliated with billionaire Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square is set to raise …
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Billboard, @billackman, Digital Music News, Variety, Reuters and Music Business Worldwide


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.”
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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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Meghan Markle and Lemonada Media announce Confessions of a Female Founder, a weekly podcast featuring conversations with women entrepreneurs, premiering April 8 — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is back with her first new podcast in more than two years: “Confessions of a Female Founder,” …
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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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@deadline and @thedragonfeeder


WGA begins talks with CBS News for a new union contract, focusing on AI and using the recently ratified contract at ABC News as a foundation for bargaining — Artificial intelligence is taking center stage in yet another set of union negotiations as the Writers Guild of America began talks …


Kari Lake, who joined the USAGM in February, says she is canceling the agency's contracts with news services including AP, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse — A senior advisor to President Donald Trump said Thursday she was moving to cancel long-established contracts between three international …


Filing: Newsmax paid $40M in 2024 to settle the Smartmatic defamation lawsuit over false claims that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 US election — Newsmax Media has agreed to pay $40 million to settle allegations it defamed Smartmatic by reporting false claims …
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TVNewsCheck, The Independent, The Wrap, CNBC, Deadline and @mikescarcella.bsky.social


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 …

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


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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The Register, Bloomberg Law, MediaPost and TVNewsCheck


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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@caulfieldtim.bsky.social, Georg M. on LinkedIn and @eschares@scholar.social