“Current or former Facebook users can now file for compensation as part of the $725 million settlement reached in a lawsuit that alleged the social media company, owned by Meta, shared users’ data without their consent.”

“In the lead up to the last-second deal, attorneys for both Fox News and Dominion were fully expecting a trial.”

“There were 363 journalists detained in more than 30 countries last year, with the highest number of detainees held in Iran, China and Myanmar, according to the CPJ. The overall figure is nearly double from 2015 and the most since the press-freedom group began tracking imprisonments three decades ago.”

“It’s worth observing here that journalists almost always do the utmost to protect their confidential sources, often going to jail when subpoenaed. But that calculus does not automatically apply if the source is not yours.”

“The company will launch four desks — News, Tech, Culture and Science — which it says won’t be automated by bots but instead by professional curators who have expertise in discovering and elevating interesting content.”

“Dell Cameron, a senior writer at Wired who covers big tech, wrote about the hack on Wednesday and even interviewed the person allegedly responsible for posting to Walsh’s account. That interview was apparently enough to get Cameron banned for violating Twitter’s rules on ‘distribution of hacked material.'”

“Even as Buffett acquired more newspapers, he kept the News separate from the rest of his portfolio, giving the paper significant autonomy in its operations. But The Buffalo News under its new ownership is now finding it isn’t protected anymore.”

“Non-union editorial employees will be notified on Thursday, [management] said, while the size of unionized editorial employees will be reduced. There will not be a hiring freeze, the company said, but it will only hire ‘critical, must-have talent’ and backfill essential roles.”

“In technical terms, that means I wouldn’t simply publish it as a PDF, destined to float free from our earnest caveats. At best, we could have published the document as screenshots attached to the context we had and the context we would learn. Perhaps in some small way, this would have limited its transformation from a set of claims into a banner of the ‘resistance.’ But I’m not under the illusion that journalists could have contained its wildfire spread, any more than I think we could have concealed it.”