“‘The odds of success here are slim to none, but winning in court is not likely the real goal of this lawsuit,’ said Clay Calvert, a media law expert and professor at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law. ‘The true motivation is to intimidate the press and journalists. I unfortunately suspect this lawsuit is just a harbinger of things to come.'”

“AI-generated questions will appear with most journalism to offer subscribers a conversation starting point…Subscribers can immediately understand their peers’ dominant takeaways and reactions to the journalism through Al-generated summaries of the comments.”

“The man identified himself during the segment as ‘a civilian’ named Adel Ghurbal, who was taken by the intelligence service from his home three months ago and interrogated…But the network reported on Monday evening that the man’s name is actually Salama Mohammad Salama and that he served as a lieutenant in the Assad regime’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate.”

“…for trying to defraud investors and lenders by lying about the company’s finances…following a two-month trial during which witnesses detailed an impersonated phone call, fabricated contracts and misleading claims about Ozy’s earnings from 2018 to 2021.”

“According to [Matt Paxton, publisher of the Lexington (Virginia) News-Gazette], the erosion in distant mail service is a specific issue affecting many small, local newspapers, including his, because periodical rates have increased multiple times in 2023-2024. For approximately 20 years, he has continuously received complaints from subscribers about waiting days for their newspapers or receiving multiple issues in one delivery.”

Translated from Spanish: “For 96.5% of those surveyed by the APM, the media are a reflection of political polarization in Spain. And while 87% consider them to be participants in the climate of accelerated tension, only 13% think that these same news outlets are victims of the general anger. If for 43% [of respondents] social networks are the main means of increasing environmental tension – followed by television at 36%; the press at 8%; and radio at 6% – 48% believe that all of them, to a greater or lesser extent, encourage tension.”

“In recent weeks, Meta has been very vocal about Threads’ growth after a lot of people flocked to Bluesky. While Bluesky tracker says that that platform currently has a little over 25 million total users, Zuckerberg shared Monday that Threads has more than 300 million monthly active users.”

“The report is significant because it shows that although Cellebrite devices are typically designed to unlock or extract data from phones that authorities have physical access to, they can also be used to open the door for installing active surveillance technology.”

“Here’s the peculiar dimension of this whole affair: The posture of ABC News progressed from unreasonably dismissive (rejecting legitimate demands for correction) to unreasonably accommodating (giving away the store to Trump via $15 million, a note of contrition and so on).”

“The situation at the Washington Post is so dire that two candidates to run the paper — Cliff Levy of the New York Times and Meta’s Anne Kornblut, a former Post editor — both withdrew from consideration for the top newsroom job over the paper’s strategy, sources involved in the process say.”

“The landmark ruling was made by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in a case brought by Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney. It found that the actions of police when mounting an undercover surveillance operation were disproportionate and undermined the domestic and international protections available for the media.”