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1:25 PM ET, September 2, 2022

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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Some musicians with songs about poop say Amazon Music is their biggest source of revenue, likely due to kids yelling the word into Alexa-enabled devices  —  “Alexa, play ‘Poopy Stupid Butt’ again."  —  There are many topics that my 5-year-old and I don't see eye to eye on …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier may debut on Nov. 1 in markets including Canada, France, Germany, UK, and US; the date was moved to beat Disney+'s Dec. 8  —  Netflix is moving up the timeline for the debut of its cheaper, ad-supported plan to November — in order to get out before the Dec. 8 launch …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount says Top Gun: Maverick has become the best-selling digital title ever in the US in its first week of release  —  Tom Cruise's blockbuster sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” has roared into the record books as the No. 1 best-selling digital sell-through title ever in the U.S. in its first week of release …
Discussion: Media Play News and Collider
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Benjamin Cohen, CEO of the LGBTQ+ media brand PinkNews which earned £2M in operating profit in 2021 and has doubled its team in the past year  —  Pink News started as a side hustle for founder Benjamin Cohen and is now a global brand boasting £2m annual profit.
Stefania D'Ignoti / Nieman Reports:
A look at Dispatches in Exile, Migratory Birds, and other newsrooms inside refugee camps covering migrant news for migrants and tackling misinformation  —  As more people are displaced from their home countries, newsrooms inside of refugee camps are popping up to give voice to these marginalized communities
Discussion: @niemanreports
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Comcast is looking to cut as much as $1B from the budget of NBCUniversal's TV networks, including through layoffs and programming changes  —  Comcast Corp. is looking to cut as much as $1 billion from the budget of the TV networks in its entertainment division, NBCUniversal …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act is a dangerous link tax bill and a bizarre attempt to circumvent antitrust, copyright, and common carrier laws  —  Look, I'm a small journalism outfit.  A very small one.  So, in theory, a law that effectively lets me demand free cash from Google …
Jolie Lash / The Wrap:
BBC donates £1.42M, representing the sales proceeds derived from Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Princess Diana, to charities  —  The British Broadcasting Corporation says it's made good on its promise to donate revenues from its notorious 1995 “Panorama” interview with Princess Diana to charities linked to the late royal.
Jonathan Spicer / Reuters:
An investigation details how Turkey President Tayyip Erdoğan's regime shapes the nation's news, dictated by the ~1,500-strong Directorate of Communications  —  From an office tower in Ankara, Turkish officials shape the nation's news, media insiders say - always to President Tayyip Erdogan's advantage.
 
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Almost every UK TV production company signed a letter to candidates for the next prime minister, warning a Channel 4 sale would hurt businesses and the country
Discussion: Deadline
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Reddit acquires contextual advertising company Spiketrap to improve its ad quality scoring and boost auto-bidding prediction models; terms were not disclosed
Discussion: The Drum and Reddit Upvoted
Reuters:
India's antitrust watchdog says Zee's merger with Sony's India unit merits more investigation; sources: the initial findings will delay approval of the deal
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Brian Krebs apologizes to IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti and removes his articles about a purported “breach” based on a “sole source” now under federal indictment
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ProPublica:
An investigation details an Instagram verification scheme using fake profiles on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and more; Meta removes badges from 300+ accounts
Jem Aswad / Variety:
US music publishers settle on 15.35% for mechanical streaming rates in 2023-2027, avoiding costly legal fights with Amazon, Apple, Google, Pandora, and Spotify
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Media Insight Project's May-June 2022 survey: ~71% of younger Americans get news daily from social media and 32% enjoy following the news, down from 53% in 2015
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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