The movie The Apprentice has yet to find a US distributor, suggesting that some media companies may have already been intimidated by Trump and his supporters (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Mediagazer: The movie The Apprentice has yet to find a US distributor, suggesting that some media companies may have already been intimidated by Trump and his supporters (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

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Los Angeles Times:

A look at the growing popularity of Tubi as streaming prices rise; Nielsen: May was Tubi's most-watched month ever, with an average of 1M viewers, up 46% YoY— In the era of “streamflation,” it's a good time to be Tubi. — Subscription prices for Netflix, Disney+, Max and Peacock …
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Nina Braca /
UPROXX: Tubi Users Aren't Hesitating To Share Why The Streamer Is Thriving Beyond Expectations @neverleftpod: Omg hahahah! Take that @StreamOnMax #DontStreamOnMax #FireDavidZaslav https://www.latimes.com/... [image]

Anjali Sud /
Anjali Sud on LinkedIn: May = new milestone! — The LA Times reported that May was Tubi's most-watched month to date and that according to Nielsen, we surpassed Disney+ in viewers 👀 …

Lauren Townsend /
Lauren Townsend on LinkedIn: This is a BIG deal... “Nielsen data showed that May was Tubi's most-watched month ever, with an average audience of 1 million viewers, up 46% from a year ago. …

Jesse Hawken /
@jessehawken: The People's Streaming Service ™

Matthew A. Cherry /
@matthewacherry: The Tubi switch up gonna be so Fox and WB/UPN like. Wait and see.

Josh Van Houdt /
Josh Van Houdt on LinkedIn: “The streamer edged out Disney+, which averaged 969,000 viewers. Tubi also easily beat NBCUniversal's Peacock, Warner Bros. Discovery's Max … @iamkingwilliams: Fwiw, Tubi is building its * actual * viewership and subscriber base on Black customers While the headlines focus on its growth with licensed movie and tv shows and white Gen Zers using the platform for the first time @imani_barbarin: Bad news for streaming platforms and an indication on the cost of living as Tubi is one of the few movie and tv platforms where you can watch content for free.

David Weigel /
@daveweigel: The movies are BACK

Mary Kate Carr /
The A.V. Club: Tubi outperformed Disney+, Peacock, and Max last month

Platformer:

Sources: Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down after five years and won't conduct research into any future elections; Stanford may retain SIO's branding— After five years of pioneering research into the abuse of social platforms, the Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down.

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NPR, @tab_delete, @repdanbishop, Allie Funk on LinkedIn, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, The Verge, @issielapowsky, @juliascribe, @evacide, @Mikal@sfba.social, @knutson_brain@sfba.social, Washington Post, @AnnemarieBridy@mastodon …, @metacurity@infosec.exchange, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @joshuafoust@appdot.net and @caseynewton@mastodon.social

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Shannon Bond /
NPR: A major disinformation research team's future is uncertain after political attacks

Theo Baker /
@tab_delete: An utter shame: The pioneering Stanford Internet Observatory (@stanfordio), responsible for groundbreaking trust and safety research and home to the nonpartisan Election Integrity Partnership, is being shuttered. https://www.platformer.news/ ...

Rep. Dan Bishop /
@repdanbishop: A major victory in the battle to dismantle the Censorship Industrial Complex. I'll never let up in the fight to preserve freedom of expression in America. [image]

Allie Funk /
Allie Funk on LinkedIn: This is a major loss in our efforts to understand the information space, especially ahead of, during, and after November's election. …

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: This is *terrible. * Stanford buckles under to Jim Jordan & litigation, dismantling the Stanford Internet Observatory (retreating to safe subjects like child porn). Alex Stamos & Renee DiResta, both gone, call this “a quintessential example of the weaponization of government.” h/t Casey Newton …

Issie Lapowsky /
@issielapowsky: This is a huge loss. Just this week, I published a paper about what research has been most influential to policymakers, journalists, tech leaders and activists. Across ~40 interviews, Stanford Internet Observatory's name came up over and over. https://knightfoundation.org/ ...

Julia Scott /
@juliascribe: Oh NO. This is a huge deal. Such a disappointing move from @Stanford whose students and staff have been menaced by elected lawmakers and their henchmen. Unbelievable. The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled https://www.platformer.news/ ... @Mikal@sfba.social: @Mediagazer — It's appalling that Stanford caved in to GOP bullying. Anyone who thinks we need to play nice with fascists is in for a horrible reality check very soon.

Brian Knutson /
@knutson_brain@sfba.social: @Mediagazer Inspired our current work on sentiment and social media virality (which will continue)...

Joseph Menn /
Washington Post: Stanford's top disinformation research group collapses under pressure

Annemarie Bridy /
@AnnemarieBridy@mastodon.social: Here's a good example of the vulnerability of university researchers who lack tenure. — The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled https://www.platformer.news/ ... @metacurity@infosec.exchange: https://www.platformer.news/ ... Oh no! — The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled

Dan Gillmor /
@dangillmor@mastodon.social: The massively bad-faith Republican “investigations” — persecutions to deter truth-telling — into vital research on right-wing extremism have paid off for the extremists. — In a cowardly but understandable move, Stanford University is dismantling its Internet Observatory, which has been a focus of the Republican lies and attacks. …

Lauren Weinstein /
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org: After sustained attacks by the GOP, Stanford Internet Observatory is being shut down — https://www.platformer.news/ ... [image]

Joshua Foust /
@joshuafoust@appdot.net: The bad guys are winning. Get angry. — https://www.platformer.news/ ...

Defector:

The Longform podcast, featuring weekly interviews with nonfiction writers, is planning to end production after 12 years— Wednesday morning, I saw a tweet from the Longform podcast: Jay Caspian Kang, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was the guest on for their 583rd episode. I perked up.

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@pjmaciak, @kavahnmansouri, @askanyone, @hannahmc_carthy and @benmullin

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Phillip Maciak /
@pjmaciak: I have learned so much from listening to the interviews on @longform podcast over the years. For something in this ephemeral media universe to feel like an institution is a huge deal. Dive in if you haven't. One of your favorite writers is probably in there.

Kavahn Mansouri /
@kavahnmansouri: I've been driving all day but finally have a second to properly mourn the @longform podcast. I have a vivid memory of listening to their interview with Gay Talese while working at a pipe factory during my college years. It came at a point where I really didn't believe I could...

Kavahn Mansouri /
@kavahnmansouri: make it in journalism. That episode and so many others kept me going, kept me inspired and gave me an idea of what it was like to be a working writer. If you haven't listened, get to it. It's a huge resource for growing writers. And we should always be growing.

Sloane Crosley /
@askanyone: Ah, double damn, @longform is ending. Thanks to these gems for having me on twice, including a couple of months ago...this is probably the best interview I did for this book: https://longform.org/...

Hannah McCarthy /
@hannahmc_carthy: Sad to hear the @longform podcast is wrapping up. https://defector.com/...

New York Times:

The movie The Apprentice has yet to find a US distributor, suggesting that some media companies may have already been intimidated by Trump and his supporters— This week I finally got to see “The Apprentice,” an absorbing, disturbing movie about the relationship between the red-baiting mob lawyer Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump.

Discussion:

Dina Jay /
@dinajay17@threads.net: They can release it on line. Set up a website. Put it behind a paywall. This is 2024. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter@threads.net: 👆🏼 The film's writer, gabrielsherman, shared this column on Instagram today and commented, “Hollywood is terrified of Trump and he's not even elected yet. Imagine what artists will go through if he actually wins.”

Jake Lahut /
@jakelahut@threads.net: Some real free country stuff here..

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Frightening how the GOP's authoritarian intimidation works, at Stanford (Internet Observatory) and Hollywood. Too much fascism, too little courage. — The Chilling Reason You May Never See the New Trump Movie https://www.nytimes.com/...

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter@threads.net: The Trump biopic “The Apprentice” is struggling to land a U.S. distribution deal. “It's frightening,” @michelleinbklyn writes, “because it suggests that Trump and his supporters have already intimidated some media companies, which seem to be pre-emptively capitulating to him.” …

Axios:

Workweek, a publishing platform for creators serving business professionals, raised a $12.5M Series A to expand from its eight newsletters and 500K+ subscribers— The company raised $1.5 million in seed round funding in a round led by LightShed Ventures. — The company provides publishing …

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Talking Biz News

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The Guardian:

A Chinese court sentences Sophia Huang Xueqin, who reported on #MeToo movement and Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, to 5 years on state subversion charges— Sophia Huang Xueqin, who reported on #MeToo movement and Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, sentenced along with labour activist Wang Jianbing

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CBS News, @jfsteinfeld, New York Times, Voice of America, @sophiedrich and Committee to Protect …

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Haley Ott /
CBS News: Supporters say China's Sophia Huang Xueqin, #MeToo journalist and activist, sentenced to jail for “subversion”

Jemimah Steinfeld /
@jfsteinfeld: In 2022 @IndexCensorship gave our Freedom of Expression in journalism award to Sophia Huang Xueqin. Here's the video that accompanied the award. A little glimpse into how remarkable she is. She must be freed, as must Wang Jianbing, also sentenced today https://www.youtube.com/...

William Yang /
Voice of America: China sentences #Metoo journalist, labor activist to up to 5 years in jail

Sophie Richardson /
@sophiedrich: 5 yrs and 3.5 yrs for not breaking the law. Free #HuangXueqin and #WangJianbing!

New York Times:

Sources: Jeff Bezos appears to be standing by Publisher and CEO Will Lewis and has envisioned WaPo growing to reach 100M subscribers from its current 2.5M— The Amazon founder has expressed his support to Will Lewis, the C.E.O., who has faced widespread criticism this month.

Discussion:
@froomkin, @benmullin, @davidclinchnews, Mediaite, The Daily Beast, Media Nation and @jayrosen_nyc@threads.net

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Ben Mullin /
@benmullin: new, w/@katie_robertson: How Jeff Bezos is trying to fix The Post. Scoops: -Bezos has lately expressed support to publisher Will Lewis -Lewis missed the Pulitzers in May because he was in NY with Bezos discussing turnaround -"The Kansas City Project" https://www.nytimes.com/...

Ben Mullin /
@benmullin: Some news in here: Jeff Bezos has told people that The Washington Post can eventually generate 100 million(!) paid subscriptions, which would catapult it far ahead of the competition. w/@katie_robertson https://www.nytimes.com/...

David Clinch /
@davidclinchnews: I'm interested to hear the results of the internal survey on the “third newsroom” idea.

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Former Staffer Margaret Sullivan Calls on Jeff Bezos to ‘Save’ Washington Post By ‘Firing’ CEO Will Lewis

Corbin Bolies /
The Daily Beast: WaPo CEO's Apology Tour Was an Answer-Free Snoozefest

Dan Kennedy /
Media Nation: The Washington Post looks to local as a way of reviving its sagging fortunes

New York Times:

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified briefly at the fraud trial for Carlos Watson of Ozy Media, denying Watson's alleged claims that Google sought to buy Ozy— Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, said he never discussed a potential acquisition of the digital media start-up.

Discussion:
Nieman Lab, Bloomberg, Associated Press and Courthouse News Service

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Joshua Benton /
Nieman Lab: Scenes from the trial of Ozy's Carlos Watson

Patricia Hurtado /
Bloomberg: Ozy's Rao Details Posing as YouTube Official to Win Goldman Investment

Jennifer Peltz /
Associated Press: Google CEO testifies at trial of collapsed startup Ozy Media and founder Carlos Watson

Politico:

Sources say the publisher Little, Brown canceled prominent journalist Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, partly due to Carlson's mainstream absence— A major publisher just canceled a big-budget book on the former Fox News star, cementing his mainstream absence.

Discussion:

Josh Kraushaar /
@joshkraushaar: “The journey from comfort in the mainstream to aggrievement on the margins is one of the most fascinating evolutions in today's society.” https://www.politico.com/... @threnody.bsky.social: reposting @katmabu.bsky.social's video because deplatforming works—from the host of the most watched cable “news” show to pedophile accounts on bluesky. — a year & change ago, this man was an inescapable avatar of white nationalist hate. he can't get a book published. even josh hawley can do *that. …

Jason Weisberger /
Boing Boing: A book about a failed Fox host can not find a publisher @nahbabynah: Political News, R&L The Disappearing Tucker Carlson: For Tucker Carlson, it has to be the ultimate good-news, bad-news moment: A major publishing house has canceled a prominent political journalist's upcoming biography of the far-right media... https://www.politico.com/... #Trump2024 [image]

Gillian Branstetter /
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social: That's it's own fascinating story, no? Most influential cable news host and white supremacist propagandist reduced to niche vlogger [embedded post]

Justin Baragona /
@justinbaragona: Pretty much the perfect breakdown of Tucker Carlson's fall from mainstream relevance. https://www.politico.com/... [image]

TVNewsCheck:

NBCUniversal unveils 27 members of its Paris Creator Collective for Olympics social media content, partnering with Meta, Overtime, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube— Continuing its efforts to reach Olympic fans of all generations, NBCUniversal today unveiled its first-of-its-kind …

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Reuters, NBCSports.com, Broadband TV News and Media Play News

Discussion:
NBCSports.com: NBCUNIVERSAL TO SEND 27 CREATORS TO OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH META, OVERTIME, SNAPCHAT, TIKTOK AND YOUTUBE

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: NBCUniversal Sending 27 Social Media Creators to Paris Olympics

NPR:

A look at Prison Mirror, one of the US' oldest prison newspapers, running since 1887, made by and for the people held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility— Inside a state prison near Stillwater, Minn., past the armed guards and the wings of cells stacked one on top of another …

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Jeremy Pelofsky /
Jeremy Pelofsky on LinkedIn: Very excited to see coverage of the rise in journalism inside America's prisons! These newspapers provide the opportunity for the incarcerated …

John Carson /
@johncarson: https://www.npr.org/... “Publications like this aren't common, but in an era where many journalism outlets in the free world are struggling to thrive amid scores of layoffs, journalism behind bars is actually growing.” = Really interesting.

Ameera Butt /
@meerabee: I learned about the oldest prison newspaper from @meg_anders Publications like this aren't common, but in an era where many journalism outlets in the free world are struggling to thrive amid scores of layoffs, journalism behind bars is actually growing. https://www.npr.org/...

Olav Mitchell Underdal /
@omunderdal: This prison newspaper has been publishing for more than a century - A newspaper in a Minnesota prison began publishing more than a century ago. The paper covers prison life and gives its writers purpose. It's one of around two dozen similar publications ... https://www.npr.org/... @spj_tweets: “The Prison Mirror is one of the oldest prison newspapers in the country, running since 1887. Publications like this aren't common, but in an era where many journalism outlets...are struggling to thrive... journalism behind bars is actually growing.” https://www.npr.org/... Prison Journalism Project on LinkedIn: A newspaper in a Minnesota prison began publishing more than a century ago. The paper covers prison life and gives its writers purpose. …

Nieman Lab:

The Insider Union asks BI management to share details of its OpenAI licensing deal, citing issues with ChatGPT's inaccurate or missing links to Insider scoops— “We are...deeply worried that despite this partnership, OpenAI may be downplaying rather than elevating our works,” Business Insider's union wrote in a letter to management.

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@davetroy, @sarahscire, @laurengoode, @estherbrooklyn, @laurahazardowen, @decka227, @themckenziest, @krustelkram and Talking Biz News

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Sarah Scire /
@sarahscire: @BusinessInsider ... journalists have been flagging these plausible-looking URLs for more than a year (including @glichfield) https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Esther Kaplan /
@estherbrooklyn: And...here we are. “When prompted to name the outlet that broke the Dave Portnoy investigation, ChatGPT correctly identified Business Insider but hallucinated an incorrect URL.”

Laura Hazard Owen /
@laurahazardowen: Business Insider's parent company signed a $$$ deal with OpenAI. ChatGPT still won't link to BI's scoops. https://www.niemanlab.org/... that feature is, uh, still coming, OpenAI tells @decka227

Andrew Deck /
@decka227: ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to Business Insider articles, despite its parent company's multimillion-dollar deal with OpenAI. My latest for @NiemanLab, including details on @InsiderUnion's letter calling for BI to share its OpenAI contract. https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Lauren McKenzie /
@themckenziest: @decka227 ... It's truly incredible just how bad this all is

Céline Keller /
@krustelkram: “... Altman proclaimed that AI hallucinations (when an LLM asserts something untrue as fact, because AI doesn't know anything) are a feature, not a bug, and ... should be regarded as a form of creative expression.” Silicon Valley's False Prophet https://www.wheresyoured.at/ ... [image]

Wired:

Yahoo debuts a revamped version of its free Yahoo News app, powered by Artifact's AI tech, after acquiring the Instagram co-founders' news app in April 2024— Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram's cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year.

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Will Shanklin /
Engadget: Yahoo News gets an AI-powered overhaul Gadgets 360: Yahoo News App Gets an AI-Powered Revamp, Integrates Artifact's Technology for Personalised News Discovery

Jim Lanzone /
@jlanzone: @kevin @mikeyk Also important to note that the app is grounded in partnerships with a huge number of curated content sources across dozens of categories - reducing spam/noise - and we share revenue with those partners.

Jim Lanzone /
@jlanzone: It's alive. Yahoo+Artifact app launches today. Thanks @kevin and @mikeyk for helping us make it happen. Killer roadmap ahead - so much more we can do here.

Coleen O'Lear /
Coleen O'Lear on LinkedIn: You know I live for launching news products! 🚀 This one will forever be near and dear ... my first launch at Yahoo News was a big one. …

Vera H-C Chan /
Vera H-C Chan on LinkedIn: AI scaling up human ingenuity is key (and not the other way around). Glad to see Yahoo continue to make strides in this area. …

Caragh Fisher O'Connor /
Caragh Fisher O'Connor on LinkedIn: The new era of Yahoo News is here - and it's pretty great! Today we introduce a brand new mobile app and homepage powered by the incredible AI technology …

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: Yahoo News Integrates Artifact AI Technology Into Reimagined App - Here's What's Different

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