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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties” — Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan says in exclusive interview community notes won't penalize users
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Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures — https://about.fb.com/wp-content/ uploads/2025/03/Community-Notes-Launch- Date-Announcement_Header.mp4 — Takeaways
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta says Community Notes will use the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes, but it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its apps — Meta's upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk's X for its similar service.
Hayden Field / CNBC:
In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material” — After President Trump, in one of his initial actions upon returning to the White House, revoked the country's …
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google releases its proposals for White House's AI Action Plan, arguing that “fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions” are “critical” to AI development — Google, following on the heels of OpenAI, published a policy proposal in response to the Trump Administration's call for a national “AI Action Plan.”
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Washington Post:
John Feinstein, a Washington Post sportswriter who wrote more than 40 books including A Season on the Brink, about basketball coach Bob Knight, has died at 69 — He had a long affiliation with The Washington Post and wrote books including “A Season on the Brink,” about Indiana University men's basketball coach Bob Knight.
Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
A look at three examples of how ProPublica has used AI to analyze data, including how journalists wrote AI prompts, with staff reviewing and confirming results — When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast and the International Olympic Committee sign a $3B deal to keep NBC and Peacock as the TV and streaming homes for the Olympics through 2036 — The deal with the IOC also includes technical and advertising support surrounding the games. — In a major deal, Comcast …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Brave sues News Corp to try to head off a copyright lawsuit by News Corp, which threatened to sue over Brave's search engine scraping and indexing its content — News Corp (NWSA.O) has been sued by Google search engine rival Brave Software, which seeks to forestall a lawsuit by Rupert Murdoch's company …
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Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal:
Scientific journals struggle with quality control as some scientists say the industry's fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work — Some scientists say the for-profit industry's fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work
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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
TollBit launches Content Cache, a new tool for its publishing partners that redirects AI crawlers to a TollBit subdomain to license content via micropayments — AI search bots, despite their claims, are sending on average 95.7% less referral traffic than traditional Google search
Columbia Journalism Review:
Wesley Lowery leaves the Investigative Reporting Workshop as the executive editor, after accusations of improper behavior with colleagues and female students — Lowery said he left voluntarily and denied any impropriety or wrongdoing. — Wesley J. Lowery, a Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter …
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