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5:05 AM ET, May 1, 2025

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Julia Love / Bloomberg:
Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner  —  Google's ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.'s efforts …
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Meta:
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $42.3B, vs. $41.4B est., net income up 35% to $16.6B, family daily active people up 6% to 3.43B on average for March 2025  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
The White House launches White House Wire, a website that looks similar to the Drudge Report, to promote pro-Trump news stories  —  The White House has launched a new Drudge Report-like website devoted to promoting pro-Trump news stories.  —  Why it matters: The site, called “White House Wire …
John J. Lennon / Vulture:
An incarcerated man describes the negative impact on some prisoners of true crime shows, which fail to contextualize and exploit their participation  —  TV producers exploited the worst decision of my life.  I'm not the only one.  —  In September 2018, I published a story in New York about the mental-illness crisis in prison.
Axios:
PBS CEO Paula Kerger says she is “hopeful” more Republicans will back the public broadcaster, and PBS would defend “vigorously” if someone went after its board  —  PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Wednesday she's “hopeful” more Republicans will back the the public broadcaster …
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A look at all the ways Trump targeted media in his first 100 days, including banning AP from White House events, FCC investigations, and defunding USAGM
Peter White / Deadline:
NBCU starts another round of layoffs, hitting the unscripted teams the hardest, with at least two reality SVPs impacted and several at NBC, Peacock, and Bravo  —  It appears that its unscripted teams were the hardest hit with this latest round of redundancies with at least two SVPS …
Financial Times:
Kadrey v. Meta, centered on the use of LibGen to train Llama AI models, begins Thursday and marks the first big test in the ongoing battle over AI and copyright  —  Tech giant faces lawsuit from US authors over use of material from shadow library LibGen  —  Meta will fight a group of US authors …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
WaPo has banned its media writers from reporting stories about the paper and reportedly lost ~325K subscribers after the Harris non-endorsement  —  After a brutal year of headlines about The Washington Post, Executive Editor Matt Murray sounded almost relieved to be talking about journalism.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The GOP used legal threats to take down billboard ads bought by Democrats in March 2025, a blatant SLAPP demand and potentially a First Amendment violation  —  The “Party of Free Speech” is at it again.  House Speaker Mike Johnson just bragged about using legal threats to remove …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump falsely claims CBS and 60 Minutes admitted to the “crime” of deceptively editing a Harris interview, says he'll sue NYT for calling his CBS suit baseless
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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

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

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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