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FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp — The tech giant went to court on Monday in an antitrust trial focused on its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week — Takeaways — In the EU, we will soon begin training our AI models on the interactions that people have with AI at Meta …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
After CBS aired two 60 Minutes segments, Trump calls on CBS to lose its license and asks FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to “impose the maximum fines and punishment” — Donald Trump again lashed out at 60 Minutes, this time angry over two segments the newsmagazine ran on Ukraine and Greenland.
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Andrew Marchand / New York Times:
Sources: College GameDay host Rece Davis agreed to a new seven-year deal worth tens of millions to stay with ESPN, after being heavily pursued by Fox Sports — College football's pregame battle between ESPN's iconic “College GameDay” and Fox Sports' upstart “Big Noon Kickoff” …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Less than a week before A Minecraft Movie had a $160M+ opening weekend in the US and Canada, experts projected ~$65M, following four high profile misses in 2024 — A Minecraft Movie took in more than $500 million in 10 days. Nobody saw that coming — Good evening from New York …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek” — Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block) …
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Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
A profile of Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust denier who has become one of the most popular podcasters in the US and has tens of thousands of Substack subscribers — All of a sudden, everyone was coming for Darryl Cooper. — There were the newspaper columnists, the historians, the Jewish groups …
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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Q&A with Warner Bros. Pictures co-CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy on recent negative press, playing the long game, filmmaker relationships, reviving IP, and more — Using a couple flops and risky upcoming films as fodder, several reports with scant backup say their Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav …
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Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
The WGA says TV writer jobs fell 42% YoY, or by 1,319 positions, for the 2023-2024 season, including 642 jobs lost at the co-executive producer or higher level — Of the 1,319 total writing jobs lost from 2022-23, 642 of them were co-executive producers or above.
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
EchoStar asks the FCC to abolish rules preventing its Dish and Sling TV services from importing distant local TV affiliate signals during carriage disputes — Echostar Communications has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to abolish a rule that prevents …
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@tvgrimreaper, Policyband, Radio & Television …, TV Tech, Cord Cutters News and TVNewsCheck
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Warner Bros. Discovery says John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of directors and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus — Cable TV pioneer John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: WBD CEO David Zaslav's 2024 pay package was worth $51.9M, up 4% YoY, driven by $23.9M in non-equity incentive plan pay and $23.1M in stock awards
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New York Times:
Current and former editors discuss whether Vanity Fair's EIC remains an appealing and fun job given the magazine industry's decline and a loss of lavish perks — Radhika Jones is stepping down as editor in chief, and the search for her replacement has begun.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Twelve-year-old French policy title Contexte, which had €10.7M in 2024 revenue, plans to launch an EU-focused English-language edition to rival Politico in May — A French media brand hopes to rival the likes of Politico on the EU policy news stage with an English-language expansion.
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