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5:05 PM ET, April 21, 2025

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Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: Truth Social dropped Nexstar from a defamation lawsuit after Nexstar agreed to fire a breaking news reporter at The Hill; Nexstar denies the accusation  —  The Scoop  —  For the last year and a half, Truth Social has relentlessly pursued a defamation case against 19 media companies …
New York Times:
Sources: as labor costs rose after two strikes, producers of reality shows, indie films, and blockbusters increasingly shot overseas, hurting Hollywood workers  —  Movies and TV productions are rapidly leaving California to film outside the United States, where labor costs are lower and tax incentives greater.
Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Academy releases new rules for the 98th Oscars in 2026, including making it tougher to vote in a category without watching all the nominees in the category  —  Additionally, the organization's board of governors has left the door open to again replacing its Oscar Nominees Luncheon with an Oscar Nominees Dinner or some other event.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings  —  On Instagram, AI tools will detect underage users and automatically change their account settings.
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Ryan Lizza has departed Politico, where he was Playbook co-author and chief Washington correspondent, and has launched a Substack publication called Telos  —  We have a special announcement: Status is launching a limited-edition First Amendment tee—and opening our very own store.
New York Times:
After Meta blocked news on its platforms in Canada, misleading content from right-wing pages like Canada Proud filled the gap ahead of the federal election  —  Hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing pages such as Canada Proud is thriving on Facebook as the election nears.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Bloomberg, CPJ, and others advise journalists to take extra precautions when traveling to the US, including guidance on dealing with immigration authorities  —  THE SCOOP  —  Some media organizations are advising their employees to take extra precautions when traveling to the US.
Discussion: @maxwelltani
Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: WaPo has begun speaking with several candidates to become the editor of its rebooted opinion section, including Reason EIC Katherine Mangu-Ward  —  THE SCOOP  —  The Washington Post is inching closer to finding an editor for its rebooted opinion section.
Discussion: @taylorlorenz
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
A profile of Acyn Torabi, or @Acyn, who joined MeidasTouch in 2023 and is shaping the US liberal media with his fast-cut, viral video posts of political gaffes  —  Acyn Torabi dominates the internet with fast-cut clips of political mayhem.  Are they news, or something else?
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
a16z acquires Erik Torenberg's Turpentine podcast, which focuses mostly on interviewing VCs; Torenberg will join the VC firm as a general partner  —  Andreessen Horowitz's hiring spree continues.  On Monday, Erik Torenberg announced that the giant VC firm had acquired his Turpentine podcast, with him joining as a general partner.
 
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Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that in five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language
Kristina Fiore / MedPage Today:
US Attorney Ed Martin sent letters to CHEST and at least two other medical journals, calling them “partisans” in scientific debates and asking probing questions
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New York Times:
Sources: Sewell Chan's departure from CJR comes as the magazine has been running under tight budgetary constraints and was beginning a fundraising campaign
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
After canceling Mythic Quest, Apple debuts an updated version of the finale to tie up loose ends and removes the original cut entirely from Apple TV+
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A federal judge declines the AP challenge to the WH eliminating wire service pool slots, calling the policy “neutral” as it does not punish the AP specifically