The Washington Post says a viral image of a column implying that the paper will endorse whoever Kamala Harris chooses as her running mate is fake (Alex Griffing/Mediaite)

Mediagazer: The Washington Post says a viral image of a column implying that the paper will endorse whoever Kamala Harris chooses as her running mate is fake (Alex Griffing/Mediaite)

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Mediaite:

Bloomberg EIC says he has apologized to the freed prisoners and to WSJ EIC; report: one of the two Bloomberg reporters who bylined the story has been fired— John Micklethwait, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, announced this week that several members of his newsroom have faced …
Discussion: New York Post, @charlottetklein, TVNewsCheck, @warondumb, New York Magazine and Talking Biz News

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Ariel Zilber /
New York Post: Bloomberg reportedly fires White House reporter for breaking embargo on Evan Gershkovich deal

Charlotte Klein /
@charlottetklein: Jennifer Jacobs—one of the two Bloomberg reporters who bylined the embargo-breaking Gershkovich piece—has been fired, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Alex Weprin /
TVNewsCheck: Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief Apologizes After Outlet Broke Evan Gershkovich Prisoner Swap Embargo

Kyle Whitmire /
@warondumb: I had wondered why Bloomberg was so far out front without corroborating reports from other outlets.

Charlotte Klein /
New York Magazine: The White House asked news outlets to hold their stories on the prisoner swap until Evan Gershkovich and others were in US custody, an embargo Bloomberg broke

Chris Roush /
Talking Biz News: Bloomberg broke Gershkovich embargo

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The Wrap:

Email: Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait says the outlet has taken disciplinary action against those involved in breaking the Russia prisoner swap embargo— The outlet prematurely posted the news last Thursday while the swap, which included Evan Gershkovich, was still underway

Discussion:
The Hill, Fox News, @katie_robertson, CNN, Deadline, @jayrosen_nyu, @dan_munz, @dnvolz, @maxwelltani, @bgrueskin and @benadida

Discussion:

Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: Bloomberg disciplines multiple staff over premature prisoner swap story Fox News: Bloomberg admits it ‘prematurely published’ story on historic prisoner swap, disciplines journalists

Katie Robertson /
@katie_robertson: NEW: Bloomberg says it has taken disciplinary action against a number of people involved in breaking the prisoner swap embargo last week, email here from EIC John Micklethwait [image]

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: Bloomberg Takes Disciplinary Action Against Staffers For Breaking Embargo On Prisoner Swap Plan To Release Evan Gershkovich And Others

Jay Rosen /
@jayrosen_nyu: Bloomberg's editor in chief: “We prematurely published a story on the release of Evan Gershkovich and the other prisoners, which could have endangered the negotiated swap that set them free.” Read the rest: https://x.com/...

Dustin Volz /
@dnvolz: I want to thank Bloomberg for this apology. Their premature story on Thursday caused a lot of people to panic and could have led to real harm. It didn't, thankfully, but it's nice to see them own the mistake.

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: Follows an internal review, which we first reported in last night's @semafor media newsletter https://www.semafor.com/... [image]

Bill Grueskin /
@bgrueskin: WSJ Publisher @almarlatour is asked by @JoeNBC about news orgs that reported Evan Gershkovich's release before he cleared Russian airspace. “Embargoes are embargoes. When people's lives are at stake, you take those embargoes even more seriously.”

Financial Times:

How YouTube, NBC, Eurosport, and others are enlisting creators to cover the Paris Olympics, to fill in storytelling gaps and captivate a younger generation— NBC and Eurosport among those using ‘creators’ to spur interest and reach wider audiences — Sandra Kwon's life …

Discussion:
MediaPost and Rob Pilgrim on LinkedIn

404 Media:

Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so— Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …

Discussion:
@mkbhd, @simonw, @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net, @noondlyt@mastodon.social, @ernie@writing.exchange, @paco@infosec.exchange, @lilithsaintcrow …, @KimPerales@toad.social, @samleecole, @minimaxir, @paul@oldfriends.live, @josephfcox and @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social, more at Techmeme »

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Marques Brownlee /
@mkbhd: cool cool cool cool cool cool now leaked NVIDIA slack messages discussing which YouTube channels to scrape videos from. MKBHD videos? Yeah grab those too.

Simon Willison /
@simonw: A few weeks ago there was a big response to a story about companies training just on captions scraped from YouTube - captions only, not the video. This NVIDIA story involves the full video content. https://x.com/...

Simon Willison /
@simonw: Not surprising to see NVIDIA doing this - practically the industry standard right now - but interesting to see details of what they're collecting and why: “Movies are actually a good source of data to get gaming-like 3D consistency and fictional content but much higher quality”

Simon Willison /
@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net: Fascinating report from 404 Media's Samantha Cole on a trove of leaked NVIDIA Slack messages and emails about how they're scraping millions of YouTube videos to train their own new foundation video generation model: https://www.404media.co/... Posted a few of my own notes here: https://simonwillison.net/... …

Lauren /
@noondlyt@mastodon.social: They made Huang a king and he believed it. — Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI https://www.404media.co/...

Ernie Smith /
@ernie@writing.exchange: Nvidia's comments on copyright in this are really something. https://www.404media.co/... @paco@infosec.exchange: So this is bad. I'm sure #YouTube was a little annoyed that individuals could download videos with #ytdlp, but now that #nvidia has been caught doing it at scale, this is going to accelerate their hostility. Kudos to @404mediaco for the great reporting as always. …

Lili Saintcrow /
@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com: “Questions from employees working on the project about legal issues were often dismissed by project managers, who said the decision to scrape videos without permission was an “executive decision” that they need not worry about...” https://www.404media.co/...

Kim Perales /
@KimPerales@toad.social: #AI is built on fraud & theft: — “We got a massive leak from inside #Nvidia (emails, Slack chats, documents) which show how it created a yet-to-be-released AI model. The leak shows that Nvidia scraped YouTube en masse, had clearance from highest levels of the company.” …

Samantha Cole /
@samleecole: Internal Nvidia emails, conversations and documents leaked to 404 Media show how the company built a yet-to-be released video foundation model by scraping copyrighted content and academic datasets https://www.404media.co/...

Max Woolf /
@minimaxir: I don't even know logistically how you would scrape Netflix. Torrent all the shows? https://x.com/...

Paul Chambers /
@paul@oldfriends.live: This is wild, regardless of if you are pro, con, or indifferent regarding AI. #OpenAI #AI #IPTheft #Pirating — 🔗 Leaked Documents Show #Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI — They are getting most if not all of #YouTube and other sites. …

Joseph Cox /
@josephfcox: The leak also shows Nvidia scraping Netflix to make its model. Netflix says it does not have a deal with Nvidia, and that it does not allow scraping under its terms of service https://www.404media.co/... [image]

Jason Koebler /
@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social: SCOOP from @samleecole: Leaked Slacks and documents show the incredible scale of NVidia's AI scraping: 80 years — “a human lifetime” of videos every day. Had approval from highest levels of company despite staff legal/ethical concerns: — https://www.404media.co/...

Mediaite:

The Washington Post says a viral image of a column implying that the paper will endorse whoever Kamala Harris chooses as her running mate is fake— The Washington Post was forced to clarify on Monday that an image of a column pre-made to endorse whoever Vice President Kamala Harris chose as her running mate was “fake.”

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@politicussarah, @colbyhall, @washpostpr and @andrewstilesusa

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Sarah Reese Jones /
@politicussarah: Stop attacking Jennifer Rubin @JRubinBlogger over a screenshot designed to fool you. SHE DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Andrew Stiles /
@andrewstilesusa: oops [image]

The Hollywood Reporter:

Crooked Media Workers Union members stage a one day walkout after more than a year of contract negotiations with the network behind Pod Save America— The progressive media company, which is home to the podcast ‘Pod Save America,’ has been in negotiations with the union for more than a year.

Discussion:
Deadline, The Wrap and Writers Guild of America East

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Katie Campione /
Deadline: Crooked Media Union Stages Walkout After More Than A Year Of Contract Negotiations

Jeremy Fuster /
The Wrap: Crooked Media Union Stages One-Day Walkout as WGA East Pressure Increases on ‘Pod Save America’ Production Company

Jason Gordon /
Writers Guild of America East: WGA East Members at Crooked Media Walk Out After More Than a Year of Contract Negotiations

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Bloomberg:
A look at tension at Crooked Media, which produces and releases 14 podcasts, amid staff turnover, an unfair labor practice claim, and big pre-election workloads

Discussion:
@marissabbq, @aherman2006, @max_fisher, @travishelwig and @_eileenie_@threads.net

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Marissa /
@marissabbq: Left in 2021, after a return to office plan that wasn't being equally applied to all employees...the union is asking for some pretty simple shit. #keepcrookedprogressive

Alison Herman /
@aherman2006: it is never a recipe for a healthy and functional work environment for a company's entire senior management cadre to be outward facing talent. and that's all I have to say on that!!

Max Fisher /
@max_fisher: As part of @crooked_union fighting for our first contract, we have substantive disagreements with management. But it's just not true the staff is “rebelling” or riven by some grand ideological divide. What I've seen is a company where we're all committed to a shared mission and [image]

Travis Helwig /
@travishelwig: In the past, I've worked good jobs and bad jobs (Ellen DeGeneres made me cry a lot), and I can say without a doubt that Crooked is the best place I've ever worked. I was further left than the hosts on a lot of things too, but I never felt unheard. I genuinely miss working there. @_eileenie_@threads.net: Yeah, pretty hard to take the @podsaveamerica class warriors seriously when the pod bros & their wives buy $10 million homes, and post Insta photos of themselves hobnobbing with celebs and taking exotic, fancy vacations while their employees work 12 days in a row and 12-hour days. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Awful Announcing:

The Boston Globe issues a correction and apologizes for incorrectly calling Olympic boxer Imane Khelif “transgender” in a headline in its Friday print edition— “The editing lapse is regretful and unacceptable” — Paris, France; Imane Khelif (ALG) reacts after defeating Anna Luca Hamori …

Discussion:
Mother Jones, @bostonglobe, New York Post, @jayrosen_nyu, Verite News, @luckytran@threads.net, Media Nation, The Boston Globe, @theerougarou, @metraux_julia, @gregbeacham, @ebharrington, @brooklynmarie, @parkermolloy, @esqueer_, @erininthemorn, The Guardian, Axios, @underthedesknews@threads.net, @joanwestenberg@threads.net, @qasimrashid@threads.net, BBC

Discussion:

Christian Arnold /
New York Post: Boston Globe offers lengthy correction to factually inaccurate Imane Khelif headline amid Olympic gender controversy Verite News: LSU president shares anti-transgender misinformation, breaking his own neutrality policy

Dr. Lucky Tran /
@luckytran@threads.net: This was a horrible error, but it's important to note that this isn't an isolated incident. Headlines being chosen by editors without input from writers or adequate factchecking has been a continuing source of misinformation spread by major media outlets. The Boston Globe: Editor's note — A significant error was made in a headline on a story in Friday's print sports section … @theerougarou: The Imane Khelif disinformation regarding her being a man was started by Putin's pal Umar Kremlev. It's Russian propaganda and a lot of media organizations helped spread it far and wide. #IStandWithImaneKhelif [video]

Julia Métraux /
@metraux_julia: @brooklynmarie side note, wondering if Boston Globe uses AI to assist in writing headlines

Greg Beacham /
@gregbeacham: @BrianHolidae That's not my headline. That word isn't in my story. My stories are syndicated worldwide, and customers are allowed to write their own headlines.

Brooke Harrington /
@ebharrington: @brooklynmarie “This editing lapse is regretful” WTF? The staff of one of the world's major metropolitan newspapers don't know the difference btw “regretful” (an emotion which only a living being can have) & “regrettable?” They need to hire a copy editor while they're at it. @thomasastewart

Brooke Binkowski /
@brooklynmarie: Haha. Hey newsrooms, are you ready to start hiring disinformation experts again? Because boy howdy, you sure need us.

Parker Molloy /
@parkermolloy: @BostonGlobe You did this on purpose. Shame on you.

Alejandra Caraballo /
@esqueer_: Hey @BostonGlobe, what the hell is this?! This is a flat out lie in print. [image]

Erin Reed /
@erininthemorn: 1. Yesterday, the Boston Globe printed a news article on Imane Khelif, a cisgender boxer, titled: “Transgender boxer Advances” Khelif is not trans. This isn't even asserted by the IAB. It is an egregiously false headline. Subscribe to support my journalism. Lets dig in. [image]

Alexandra Topping /
The Guardian: Algerian boxer at centre of gender row sheds tears after quarter-final victory

V Spehar /
@underthedesknews@threads.net: The Algerian boxer was DQed by a corrupt Russian boxing organization called the IBA. She was never “gender tested” she's not trans or intersex. She was DQed and slandered after Algeria (a long time ally of Russia) voted to recognize Russian agression against Ukraine. …

Joan Westenberg /
@joanwestenberg@threads.net: Well, congratulations everyone. You did it again. You let them turn some shit that had nothing to do with trans people - fucking nothing at all, because none of us were even fucking involved - into a 48 hour news cycle of shitting on trans people to the point that it made following the fucking olympics - that, again, we weren't even involved with - fucking traumatic. …

Qasim Rashid /
@qasimrashid@threads.net: As Boston Globe now tries to walk back their racism & Islamophobia against Imane Khelif, know that this is just a show to try to prevent a major lawsuit. Their shtick is racism. Just last week they framed Trump's grotesque racism against Kamala Harris as “Harris faces pivotal moment.” 🙄

Qasim Rashid /
@qasimrashid@threads.net: Left: A white woman Ilona Maher is body shamed & @BostonGlobe praises her for “growing the game and helping women see themselves.” Right: An Arab Muslim woman Imane Khelif is body shamed & Boston Globe piles on the reckless misinformation Pay close attention—this is how legacy media normalizes & advances white supremacy

The Verge:

WBD says it has seen a “meaningful lift” in how long viewers watch content on Max after rolling out a new “whole page optimization” system in the US last month— If you've been on Max lately, you might've noticed more personalized rows of content across your entire homepage.

Discussion:
Variety, The Streamable and Cord Cutters News

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Jennifer Maas /
Variety: Max Launches New Homepage Personalization System: Here's How It Works and What Changes Are Next

David Satin /
The Streamable: Max Revamps Home Screen to Help Viewers Find Better Content Recommendations

Press Gazette:

BuzzFeed issues a “cease and desist” to Trending Now, which uses AI to aggregate B2B stories, accusing the startup of copyright infringement with its logo— Trending Now accused of copyright infringement with its logo. — Buzzfeed has issued a “cease and desist” …

Bloomberg:

Music streaming has exited its high-growth era, as big streaming services pick up fewer new subscribers, causing revenue shortfalls for music labels— Investors worry the industry has peaked. Label bosses preach patience. — Hollywood is warming up to the promise of artificial intelligence.

Discussion:
@lucas_shaw, Lucas Shaw on LinkedIn, 9to5Mac, Billboard and @rezendi, more at Techmeme »

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Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: After a decade of streaming growth, investors are worried the music industry has peaked. I explored whether their thinking — and what the music industry is doing to prove them wrong: https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Lucas Shaw /
Lucas Shaw on LinkedIn: After a decade of strong growth, the music business is slowing down; investors are worried that record labels have peaked. …

Ben Lovejoy /
9to5Mac: Slow growth for Apple Music and other services acknowledged by world's biggest music label

Glenn Peoples /
Billboard: How AI is Creating a Wave of Innovation and Entrepreneurship That's Reshaping the Music Industry (Guest Column)

Jon Evans /
@rezendi: It was only ever a matter of not-very-much time (from Lucas Shaw's https://www.bloomberg.com/...) [image]

Advanced Television:

Parks Associates: 46% of US households own at least one streaming media player, while 68% own a CTV; Roku makes the most popular player, followed by Amazon— Parks Associates' has released its Tech Ecosystem Dashboard revealing Roku is the most popular brand of streaming media players in the US, followed by Amazon.

Discussion:
StreamTV Insider, TVNewsCheck, Cord Cutters News and Media Play News

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Bevin Fletcher /
StreamTV Insider: Smart TV OS exerts more influence on viewing, discovery

Mark K. Miller /
TVNewsCheck: Survey: Roku Most Popular Streaming Player In U.S.

Raymond McCain /
Cord Cutters News: Study: Roku is the Most Popular Brand of Streaming Players

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Parks: Roku Most-Used Streaming Media Device

Semafor:

The WSJ's explosive report from January about UNRWA's alleged links to Hamas were based on Israeli intel reports the WSJ has been unable to confirm— In January, The Wall Street Journal made an explosive claim: Quoting “intelligence reports,” the paper reported that not only had 12 members …

Discussion:
@maxwelltani

Discussion:

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: New: My look at a January WSJ scoop about intelligence claiming that 10% of UNRWA had ties to Hamas. “The fact that the Israeli claims haven't been backed up by solid evidence doesn't mean our reporting was inaccurate,” the WSJ head of standards said. https://www.semafor.com/... [image]

The Wrap:

CBS News names Adrienne Roark as president of editorial and newsgathering and Jennifer Mitchell as president of stations and digital, as part of a restructuring— Roark will be president of editorial and newsgathering, and Mitchell will be president of stations and digital

Discussion:
New York Post, Radio & Television …, CBS News, Deadline, TVNewsCheck and The Hollywood Reporter

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Alexandra Steigrad /
New York Post: CBS News boss Wendy McMahon revamps management team after exit of controversial executive

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: CBS News And Stations Taps Adrienne Roark And Jennifer Mitchell For Expanded Roles As Part Of New Leadership Structure

Ted Johnson /
TVNewsCheck: CBS Taps Adrienne Roark And Jennifer Mitchell For Expanded Roles As Part Of News Leadership Structure

Reuters:

The European Commission says TikTok agreed to permanently withdraw and not replace TikTok Lite's “Task and Reward Programme” in the EU to comply with the DSA— ByteDance's TikTok has agreed to permanently withdraw its TikTok Lite rewards programme from the EU to comply …

Discussion:
TechCrunch, Sourcing Journal, UPI, @carnage4life, 9to5Mac, @eu_commission and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Natasha Lomas /
TechCrunch: TikTok Lite: EU closes addictive design case after TikTok commits to not bring back rewards mechanism

Meghan Hall /
Sourcing Journal: European Commission Closes DSA Case After TikTok Promises to Nix Lite App

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: TikTok will be shutting down its program which rewarded users with points convertible to Amazon gift cards for watching videos and referring friends. They were under investigation under the EU's DSA for an overly addictive feature aimed at minors. This is the first major DSA win [image] @eu_commission: We have closed our first case under the Digital Services Act. TikTok has committed to permanently withdraw TikTok Lite Rewards from the EU and not to launch any other programme circumventing the withdrawal. Their commitments are legally binding and closely monitored ↓ #DSA

Lyubov Pronina /