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“Wikipedia is facing mounting regulatory pressure in India as local authorities question whether the platform should continue to enjoy legal protections as a neutral intermediary rather than being classified as a publisher…The notice follows a contentious case in the Delhi High Court, where judges have described Wikipedia’s open editing feature as ‘dangerous’ and threatened to suspend its operations in India.”

“Publishing the Needle live on election night relies on computer systems maintained by engineers across the company, including some who are currently on strike. How we display our election forecast will depend on those systems, as well as incoming data feeds, and we will only publish a live version of the Needle if we are confident those systems are stable.”

“After relaunching Giant Freakin Robot in 2019, the site grew to a readership of more than 20 million a month, through 2021 and 2022. Then Google decided they didn’t want independent publishers around anymore. Most entertainment keywords have now been given to one big company, whose numerous sites own the top slots for nearly every entertainment-related query of any substance. No one can find our site to read it so that 20 million unique visitors is now a few thousand a month.”

“While friends and neighbors were reeling, while lawmakers offered thoughts and prayers, the Leader-News staff put one word in front of the other, covering the shooting and mourning its seismic ramifications at the same time. They kept going when they learned that their colleague’s daughter was among the victims. They kept going when members of the national media went home.”

“Fox News declined to make any of its journalists or election number-crunchers available for interviews for this story. But in other interviews, the network has telegraphed that things will be different this time around — though Mishkin will be back at the helm.”

“The authors — including two retired editorial page editors, prominent columnists, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist — submitted their commentary to the Star Tribune, which declined to publish it in full.”

“There’s a difficult conversation around when is it irresponsible to amplify Trump versus when is it basic journalism. I always try to provide context in terms of fact checks or pointing out when Trump is lying and explaining the motive behind his lies when there clearly is one.”

“I think [editor-in-chief Stellene Volandes] has taken a traditional Town & Country attitude and made it young and contemporary, but hasn’t abandoned the blue bloods and royals.”

“When Apple is considering whether to enter a new category, it often hosts secret focus groups to understand what people like about existing products. The company typically relies on employees — rather than customers — so it can avoid making its plans public.”

“NYT Co bought the loss-making sports news brand, which launched in 2016, for $550m in January 2022 and it has taken two-and-a-half years since then to get it into quarterly profit of $2.6m. This is an improvement from a loss of $2.4m in Q2, of $8.7m in Q1, $4.4m in Q4 2023 and $7.9m in Q3 last year.”

“The kind of people who made fun of going to diners and talking to Americans about what they’re thinking are now kind of wondering what Americans in diners are thinking. And so I do think there’s a full circle there.”

“Musk claimed that stopping people from seeing your public posts ‘makes no sense,’ but due to a post-Musk change that stops logged-out users from scrolling even a public profile, this could make it easier for blocked users to continue harassing someone.”

“The ban on new political ads was initially supposed to expire at 11:59 p.m. PT on Election Day, but Meta is extending the ban to prevent any confusion or misinformation from spreading while votes are still likely being counted.”

“The funniest thing about all these Trump threats to revoke licenses is that the days of broadcast TV dominance are obviously long gone. They were already gone 20 years ago, when Republican FCC Chair Michael Powell started arguing that consumers don’t make a distinction between regulated broadcast channels and unregulated cable channels and TV networks should all just compete for audience free of government interference.”