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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Colbert's interview on YouTube with US Senate candidate James Talarico has drawn over 6M views as of Wednesday afternoon in the US, after it was posted Monday — Stephen Colbert alleged that President Trump's talk show directive kept his interview with a Texas Democratic Senate candidate off CBS airwaves …
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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Brendan Carr confirms FCC is investigating The View for potentially violating its equal-time rule and says he was “highly entertained” by the Colbert/CBS drama — Brendan Carr also said the media should be “ashamed” for running claims that the FCC blocked James Talarico's “Late Show” interview
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement “without ever talking to me” and talk shows have long been exempt from “equal time” rules
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Pranav Baskar / New York Times:
Journalists say an AP reporter and three other journalists were detained in Cameroon while probing a secretive US program that deports migrants to Cameroon — An Associated Press reporter was beaten and held with three other journalists and a lawyer, two detainees said …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says, “We're going to be moving forward” with Nexstar's acquisition of Tegna, a merger that requires lifting the station ownership cap — The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday he supports Nexstar's proposed $3.54 billion acquisition …
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sony sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining Netflix, Paramount, WBD, and Disney in condemning the model's AI-generated copyright infringement — Sony Pictures has joined the outcry against Seedance 2., the Chinese video platform that has united Hollywood studios …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Netflix sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining WBD, Paramount, and Disney, saying “forensic evidence” shows “unauthorized derivative works”
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ has summoned some of the largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale of WBD — The US Justice Department has summoned some of the country's largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale …
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The Wrap:
UCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on “the future of journalism”, following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled — The CBS News editor-in-chief's Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture will be rescheduled at an unspecified date, an individual with knowledge of the event tells TheWrap
Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo:
An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the “For you” feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions — The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.
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Hazel Gandhi / Rest of World:
Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English — And Indonesian creators are leading the charge. — Facebook's new content monetization program is booming …
Katie Campione / Deadline:
The Writers Guild Staff Union calls a work stoppage, one month before the WGA begins AMPTP negotiations, accusing the WGA West of bad faith bargaining — The Writers Guild of America West's staff has gone on strike. — A month before the writers guild is set to bargain with the Alliance …
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Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
Q&A with Synthesia co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, regulation, and more — The founder of the $4bn UK start-up talks about his mission to reinvent content creation and how Europe can compete in the global AI race
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Audible launches an “immersion reading” feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries — Only days after Spotify announced its foray into physical book sales, which included an audiobook feature that lets …
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