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Angela Yang / NBC News:
Major outlets including TMZ, Insider, and the Los Angeles Times had to walk back their reporting about the alleged death of child rapper Lil Tay and her brother — A post on Lil Tay's Instagram account announced her death. A day later, it was removed. — Lil Tay's life has always been shocking …
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Anthony Lin / Bloomberg:
Fox Corp's chief legal and policy officer, Viet Dinh, plans to step down on December 31, 2023, and become a Fox adviser, after the $787.5M Dominion settlement — - Viet Dinh is departing as Fox chief legal and policy officer — Fox paid $787.5 million to settle suit over vote-fraud claims
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Herbert J. Siegel, a billionaire entertainment industry mogul who enabled the 1989 Time Warner merger and sold 10 TV stations to News Corp. in 2000, dies at 95 — As head of Chris-Craft Industries, he played a role in the Time-Warner merger and sold 10 television stations to Rupert Murdoch.
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos' potential role in bundling, and big streaming services' opposition to sharing the same user interface — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
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Vanity Fair
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT — Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …
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The Verge, The Hill, New York Magazine, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Insider, TechCrunch, CNN, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Washington Post, Politico, Engadget, Gizmodo, Fortune, New York Daily News, @innercitypress, NPR, Matthew Russell Lee's …, Rolling Stone, The Information, @intelligencer, New York Times, Al Jazeera, @teddyschleifer, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, Semafor, @molly0xfff, @innercitypress, @innercitypress, @molly0xfff, @molly0xfff, @coindesk, Decrypt, Fox Business, New York Post and Vanity Fair, more at Techmeme »
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count” — Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, said late Thursday that it is lowering requirements for its creator payout program.
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MediaPost, @support, Mashable, Search Engine Land, @elonmusk, @elonmusk and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Nicole Gallucci / Decider:
Writers for the series Suits, which aired from 2011 to 2019 and has received renewed interest on Netflix and Peacock, criticize their paltry streaming residuals — As WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes persist and tens of thousands of people withhold labor in pursuit of equitable streaming residuals …
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The Streamable, Collider, @deweycrowe3, @lucas_shaw, @shayz0rz@mastodon.online, @lucas_shaw, Screen Rant, Us Weekly and Los Angeles Times
Georgi Azar / Bloomberg:
FC Barcelona plans to list its content creation unit Barca Media on the Nasdaq in Q4 2023 via a $1B SPAC merger, 80% owned by existing Barca Media shareholders — Spanish football's FC Barcelona will list its content creation unit Barca Media in the US via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
The IRS files a claim in Vice Media Group's bankruptcy case saying that Refinery29 owes the US government ~$40.9M in back taxes, interest, and penalties — A rep for Vice Media Group did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the IRS claim. Vice Media completed the acquisition …
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Fast Company
Sarah Fielding / Engadget:
To fight spam, YouTube plans to deactivate links in Shorts descriptions, comments, and the vertical feed from August 31 and make social media icons unclickable — The move follows other anti-spam measures. — YouTube knows that it has a spam problem, particularly when it comes to its two-year-old Shorts feature.
Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land:
The New York Times updated its terms of service on August 3, aiming to prevent AI companies from using the media organization's content to train their systems — Many large language models are trained using website content without permission - and some brands are demanding compensatation.
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Gizmodo, The Wrap, The Verge, MediaNama, @ben@werd.social, Variety, Search Engine Journal, Agence France-Presse, @lauren@mastodon …, Adweek and Decrypt, more at Techmeme »
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Diana Marcum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former feature writer for the Los Angeles Times, San Bernardino Sun, Desert Sun, and Fresno Bee, dies at 60 — Diana Marcum forged a career, and a life, by giving a voice to Californians whom many people didn't take time to notice.
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@larry_bohannan, @mattdpearce, @nicolemfoy, @janycemcgregor, Poynter, @janycemcgregor, @demianbulwa, @jaylclendenin, @janycemcgregor and Fresno Bee
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
An interview with X CEO Linda Yaccarino on her having “autonomy” under Elon Musk, brands including Coca-Cola and Visa returning under her leadership, and more — WATCH NOW — X Corp. CEO Linda Yaccarino told CNBC that she has “autonomy” under owner Elon Musk in an interview Thursday …
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JNS.org, The Hollywood Reporter, MobileSyrup, CNN, Gizmodo, @mmfa, Insider, @sparrowmedia, @mmfa, Boing Boing, @oneunderscore__, @atrupar, @darthbluesky.bsky.social, Mashable, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @jyarow, @w7voa, @justinbaragona, @junlper, CNN, Reclaim The Net, The Guardian, New York Post, TechCrunch, @librarianshipwreck … and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »
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