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Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers  —  Platform removes more than 500,000 streams of Malcolm Todd track ‘Earrings’ on concern traders propelled it to number 1
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU antitrust watchdog hits Vivendi with additional charges for its 2023 Lagardere purchase, saying Vivendi made the deal before getting approval  —  Vivendi (VIV.PA) was hit with additional EU antitrust charges on Friday related to its 2023 acquisition of publisher Lagardere (LAGA.PA) …
Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
Three men have been found not guilty of murdering the journalist Lyra McKee in 2019; the New IRA claimed responsibility for the killing  —  McKee, 29, died after being hit by a bullet as she observed rioting in Derry in Northern Ireland in April 2019  —  Three men from Derry have been found …
Associated Press:
After a short-term hold, SCOTUS denies former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge's bid to stay an $800-a-day fine if she refuses to reveal a source  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to intervene after a judge ordered a former Fox News reporter to be fined $800 a day if she refuses …
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Lee Enterprises, which owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and more, told its newspapers to run a three-story package on new chairman David Hoffmann on front pages  —  Some at the company say the unusual request raises questions about editorial independence  —  As the nation celebrates …
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing  —  Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts spent his career building an integrated cable giant.  To grow, he now plans to split it apart
Yuras Karmanau / Associated Press:
A Belarus court sentenced journalist and YouTube host Kiryl Pazniak to 3.5 years in jail on charges of discrediting Belarus and forming an extremist group  —  A court in Belarus has convicted a journalist and sentenced him to 3 1/2 years in prison in the latest step against free speech in the country …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~$22B; it was valued at $11B in February  —  ElevenLabs has held early talks with investors to let employees sell shares in a secondary offering that would value …
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticizes the agency's move to dismiss a petition by former FCC members and media advocates challenging the news distortion policy  —  Anna Gomez, the lone Democratic commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has offered a late public criticism …
Sam Neumann / Awful Announcing:
Missouri's AG office has opened a probe into claims that ESPN NFL Draft analyst Matt Miller paid slowly or not at all to some winners in fantasy leagues he ran  —  Edit by Liam McGuire, Comeback Media.  —  The Missouri Attorney General's Office has opened an investigation …
Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability  —  Cath Virginia / The Verge … Twenty-five years ago today, a young, little-known programmer by the name of Bram Cohen fired off …
 
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The EU antitrust watchdog hits Vivendi with additional charges for its 2023 Lagardere purchase, saying Vivendi made the deal before getting approval   Find
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Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
The UK CMA is weighing new rules to allow UK app developers to direct customers to payment options outside of Apple and Google's platforms, bypassing their fees
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Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B
Jack Dunn / Variety:
As The Onion relaunches Infowars, a Q&A with comedian Tim Heidecker about becoming its creative director, the launch lineup, conservative caricatures, and more
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Samantha Elkins / NBC News:
Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked
Amos Barshad / Columbia Journalism Review:
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X launches Live Studio, an updated livestreaming hub within Creator Studio with a simplified desktop setup, chat control options, custom thumbnails, and more
 

 
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