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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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 350M MAUs, having added 30M in Q1 2025, compared to 20M in Q4 2024 — Instagram Threads, Meta's X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company's Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday.
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 …
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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.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
WaPo plans to overhaul its events business, moving away from virtual events to 30 to 40 in-person experiences, including 10 major franchise-style gatherings — The new approach will focus on franchisable gatherings catering to business audiences — The Washington Post is overhauling …
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Arthur Macmillan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Ryan Lizza on Politico threatening a lawsuit against his new Substack called Telos, the RFK scandal, how Trump weaponized media conventions, and more — All this week, CJR is running a series of pieces, on our website and in this newsletter, on the fog of news and propaganda …
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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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Axios:
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
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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 …
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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 …
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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@mmasnick.bsky.social and Punchbowl News
Agence France-Presse:
A Turkish court hands Swedish journalist Joakim Medin an 11-month suspended sentence for insulting the president, but he remains in jail on terrorism charges — Joakim Medin given suspended sentence over photos on his articles, but remains in jail awaiting trial on terror charge
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