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YOU WONT BELIEVE: 3 - What They Never Told You

Meta threatens to pull news content in California if law to pay publishers passes

Proposed bill would require ‘online platforms’ to pay a fee to state news providers whose work appears on their services

The Guardian - US

Facebook, Instagram to block news stories in California if bill passes

From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers' efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California.

WEKU

FTC watchdogs are coming for Facebook

Accused of breaking its $5 billion promise, Facebook is on the backfoot

Salon

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India’s Wire scandal a lesson for media

A scandal involving a fake email, two computer cryptographers and a politician is a lesson for all media before India’s run of elections.

360info

The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media — and by Trump allies

WEKU

All I Want for Christmas co-songwriter calls Mariah Carey’s story behind song a ‘tall tale’

‘She doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that,’ the music producer claimed about Carey

The Independent UK

Facebook parent Meta threatens to remove news from platform

Facebook parent Meta Platforms says it will be forced to consider removing news content from its platform if Congress passes legislation that could require social media companies to pay news outlets

The Independent UK

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Big Tech, free speech advocates join to oppose journalism bill

WASHINGTON — Top social media companies and free speech advocates, groups that usually take opposing views over tech policy, are coming together to oppose a measure that would allow journalism organizations to jointly negotiate with tech companies.

Tribune News Service

Facebook would rather pull news from its platform than pay publishers for their content

After nearly monopolizing the online news market, Facebook now says it might cut loose “content users don’t want to see and that’s not a meaningful source of revenue.”

Fortune

Meta pushes back on ‘false’ report that Zuckerberg is planning to step down as CEO

The Leak, citing an anonymous source, claimed that Zuckerberg would depart in 2023 because of the company’s recent losses.

Fortune

Songwriter drops £17.8m copyright lawsuit against Mariah Carey for Christmas hit

A $20m case against the All I Want for Christmas Is You singer for copyright infringement will not proceed

The Guardian - UK

Lawsuit over Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ dropped

The complainant called Carey’s classic a ‘derivative version in terms of the lyrics, melody, harmonic language, rhythm, and meter’

Evening Standard

‘It’s time’: Mariah Carey season has begun – and she won’t let you forget it

With Halloween over, the diva is donning her Santa suit to serve as the soundtrack for another Christmas

The Guardian - US

Meta vs The Wire vs Devesh Kumar: The story so far

Over the weekend, the twists and turns in the Wire-Meta saga continued.

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Expert take: Why was the Wire compelled to pull down its Meta stories?

After insisting for over a week that its reporting supposedly exposing how Meta allowed BJP leaders to censor content on its platforms was solid, the Wire on Tuesday pulled down the work pending a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”.

Newslaundry

The Wire will ‘suspend’ its Meta stories until it carries out ‘thorough internal review’: Siddharth Varadarajan

After receiving widespread criticism for its coverage of Meta’s XCheck programme, the Wire has decided to “suspend the stories” until it carries out a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”, the portal’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan told Newslaundry.

Newslaundry

Explained: What’s the Wire vs Meta fight all about?

This week, the Wire published a damning report about the content moderation policies of Meta, the social media behemoth that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Meta, which has misled about how it functions and moderates content before, replied saying the news report was misleading at best and fabricated at worst.…

Newslaundry

Wire stands by its report on BJP ‘censor privileges’, Meta by its denials

Social media giant Meta has claimed that a report in the Wire – which suggested BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya was part of the firm’s controversial XCheck programme – was “inaccurate” and appeared to be based on “fabricated” documentation. However, the news portal reported that Meta’s claims were in…

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Salon

In monkeypox failures, echoes of COVID

The first monkeypox case in the United States was confirmed in mid-May

Tribune News Service

Vaccine and testing delays for monkeypox echo failures in early COVID response

Andy Stone is one of the lucky ones. The New York City resident saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist saying that monkeypox vaccines would be available that day at a clinic in Manhattan. Stone, 35, and his husband booked appointments online right away and got their shots last…

Salon

Facebook's post-Roe censorship

The move comes just after Meta vowed to cover travel expenses for employees seeking out-of-state abortions

WEKU

Instagram and Facebook begin removing posts offering abortion pills

Social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect last Friday.

The Independent UK

Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills

Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure

Los Angeles Times

Mariah Carey sued by writer of another song named ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement related to her smash single “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Andy Stone, the man who wrote another Christmas hit with the same title. But his fight for at least $20 million in damages is likely an uphill battle, according…

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Mariah Carey Sued By Random Man For Allegedly Stealing ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ From Him

All I want for Christmas is $27m in damages, kthnxbai.

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