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11:00 AM ET, January 12, 2025

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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg faces less friction in making broad policy changes after Meta's layoffs in 2022 and 2023, which hit much of its civic integrity teams  —  Mark Zuckerberg's announcement this week that Meta would pivot its moderation policies to allow more “free expression” …
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Financial Times:
Some advertisers raise brand safety concerns over Meta's content moderation changes, fearing a surge in harmful content and misinformation on its platforms  —  Mark Zuckerberg's unexpected ‘free speech’ overhaul of Meta's content moderation has sparked concerns among advertisers that it will lead …
David Allen Green / Financial Times:
How aligning with Trump's new administration lets Meta and X pivot from futile cooperation with the EU and other jurisdictions to confrontation and coercion  —  Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
New York Times:
Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet  —  After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Biden assailed Meta over its move to end third-party fact-checking on its social media platforms in the US, saying “it's really shameful”
Angrej Singh / Axios:
Zuckerberg says Meta's fact-checking was “something out of 1984” and criticized the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on misinfo after the 2016 election
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Matt Mullenweg deactivates the accounts of several WordPress.org members, some of whom have been leading a push to create a new fork of the open-source project  —  Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
How LA reporters have been personally affected by the wildfires after several days of non-stop, commercial-free news coverage: “fatigue is setting in”  —  Enrique Chiabra was anchoring coverage of the Los Angeles fires for Telemundo's KVEA-TV (Channel 52) on Wednesday night …
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Fortune retracts a story claiming Elon Musk plans to remove timestamps from X posts and charge an $8 signup fee, apologizing for being “intentionally misled”  —  Fortune published a story Thursday that was wrought with dubious claims about changes Elon Musk was alleged …
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney commits $15M to various relief efforts following the fires in Los Angeles, and Paramount Global says it will donate $1M to relief organizations  —  Studios are mobilizing their own response efforts amid the devastation; Paramount Global commits $1 million to multiple nonprofits.
John Micklethwait / Bloomberg:
Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait predicts AI's impact on journalism: jobs will change, not vanish, reporting and breaking news will remain valuable, and more  —  The news business is facing its next enormous challenge.  Here are eight reasons to be both optimistic and paranoid.
Discussion: New Yorker and @leokelion
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
SCOTUS signals it is likely to uphold the TikTok divest-or-ban law, as a majority of justices suggested they see national security overriding free speech issues  —  - Roberts points to parent company's close ties to China  — Law would ban TikTok on Jan. 19 if ByteDance doesn't sell
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A live blog where The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nexstar's NewsNation and 63 of its stations go dark on Altice cable systems amid a carriage dispute; Altice says Nexstar rejected an interim contract extension  —  Nexstar said Friday that 63 of its local TV stations had gone dark in 42 markets around the U.S. as a result of a contract disagreement.
Joe Reedy / Associated Press:
As Amazon Prime Video wraps up its third season streaming NFL games, a look at its use of AI and “Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats” during broadcasts  —  The Los Angeles Rams defense appeared to be content to drop back in coverage and prevent San Francisco's Brock Purdy from completing …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels  —  The sports-focused streaming service will not move forward, the companies said Friday.  —  Venu is dead.
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CNBC:
Sources: Venu's cancellation came after the companies decided it was better to avoid the risk of an extended lawsuit that could jeopardize bundling in general
 
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
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