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Malak Saleh / Engadget:
Meta is working to extend its fact-checking to Threads in early 2024; ratings currently only appear on Threads content with matching Facebook or Instagram posts — The program will roll out next year, according to executives. — Threads is going to make an effort to moderate more of the user-generated content on the platform.
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer signs a multiyear deal with OpenAI, which plans to offer ChatGPT news summaries and use Politico, Business Insider, and others to train AI models — Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties
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Katie Campione / Deadline:
Analysis: Netflix's H1 2023 viewership report gives insights into the service's renewals and cancellations, original content dominates the Top 100, and more — - Netflix Viewership Data Highlights: What The New Report Does — And Doesn't — Reveal About Streamer's Performance
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: sparked by Spotify's complaint in 2019, the EU may fine Apple in 2024 and plans to ban its anti-steering App Store rules used on music streaming rivals — - EU to ban allegedly abusive App Store rules for music rivals — Antitrust decision due early 2024 and could come with fines
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
A profile of Nandini Jammi, a co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit using social media to call out companies whose ads appear on far-right creators' websites — Nandini Jammi is fighting to defund right-wing influencers like Alex Jones — When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with The Guardian's Head of Audio Nicole Jackson on its daily news podcast Today in Focus, competition, collaborating with the newsroom, and more — The importance of “really good planning” and always having a fallback option. — The Guardian's daily news podcast Today …
John Eggerton / Next TV:
On party lines, the FCC agrees to consider rules to end early termination fees for TV subscriptions; cable operators say rules would hurt their competitiveness — Providers call move illegal rate regulation that hurts competition with unregulated streamers
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Gene Meyer / Eugene L. Meyer:
A Washington Post alumnus who took a 2003 buyout shares rumors that 2023 cuts will end all local columns and that half the education reporters are leaving — John Kelly — my friend, neighbor, and former editor on the Weekend section of The Washington Post -is taking a buyout.
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
A look at a small group of video meme-makers, who are effectively serving as a shadow online ad agency for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign by flooding social media — A team of meme-makers has been flooding social media with pro-Trump posts riddled with sexist and racist tropes. Donald Trump is cheering them on.
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Fox News shakes up its executive structure, including making Porter Berry Fox News Digital's EIC and changing who oversees Fox Nation and Fox Business Network — Fox Corporation's Fox News Media has promoted five of its executives to new roles within the division.
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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
The European Parliament opts not to ban geo-blocking for films and TV content, after 600+ studios, sports leagues, and others signed a letter opposing the ban — Parliament opted to further assess the potential impact of a geo-blocking ban, which the audio-visual industry claims …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
UK hearing: BBC Chair Samir Shah says that repeated rows over Gary Lineker's recent X posts “doesn't help anyone” and “does damage to the reputation” of the BBC — The BBC's incoming chairman has yet to step foot on the corporation's premises, but he has already waded into his first scandal.
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