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5:10 PM ET, August 25, 2023

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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Nielsen: Fox News' first debate of the 2024 Republican presidential primary brought in 12.8M viewers; the 12 debates of the 2016 campaign averaged ~15M viewers  —  Fox News's first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential election exceeded expectations and brought in 12.8 million total viewers …
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Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
X claims Tucker Carlson's interview with Donald Trump drew 74M+ views, but the number includes users who scrolled past the video or watched for a few seconds
Ariel Bogle / The Guardian:
The New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and other outlets block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content; some have also blocked Common Crawl's CCBot  —  Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT
Katharine Trendacosta / Defector:
Hollywood trade publications have long been seen as PR tools for studios, but their stories during the WGA strike have absolutely shattered their credibility  —  If you were on the website-formally-known-as-Twitter last week, first of all, my condolences, we are in hell together, and second …
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Instead of calming strike tensions, CEOs who met with the WGA's negotiators riled things up, revealing ego-driven decision-making; the union responded angrily
Stephen King / The Atlantic:
Stephen King reflects on his books being used for AI training, arguing the sum is lesser than its parts, so far, as creativity can't happen without sentience  —  One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence.  —  Self-driving cars.
Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
Netflix offers its rental-by-mail subscribers their final batch of DVD or Blu-ray discs and up to 10 movies to keep before closing the service on September 29  —  The company is shuttering its rental-by-mail service in September, more than 25 years after it launched.
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Washington Post:
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears  —  Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
YouTube plans to let creators upload podcasts via an RSS feed by the end of 2023 and add podcasts to YouTube Music in more countries through the end of 2023  —  YouTube Music just launched support for podcasts earlier this year, and that's going to only get better in the months to come as RSS support is apparently coming to the app.
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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the FBI and German investigators are probing the possible poisonings of two Russian journalists and a Russian activist  —  Three women say they suffered a sudden onset of unusual symptoms; FBI and German investigators conducting probes  —  The FBI and German investigators are probing …
Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on a streaming version of ESPN, possibly helping with distribution while taking a minority stake  —  Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on the streaming version of ESPN it is developing, said people familiar with the matter.
 
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Ainsley Harris / Fast Company:
How YouTube plans to integrate creators into its NFL Sunday Ticket programming, as the company looks to be a “one-stop shop for multiple types of video content”
@futuromedia:
Futuro Media, a nonprofit that produces the radio show Latino USA and other Latino-focused content, announces layoffs, citing “months of economic uncertainty”
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Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Barbie becomes 2023's top-grossing movie in North America, grossing $575.4M in 34 days; The Super Mario Bros. Movie grossed $574.3M in 140 days in North America
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
WBD plans to launch CNN Max, a 24/7 stream pulled from CNN's US and international feeds alongside some original content, in “open beta” on September 27 on Max