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☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story A federal judge this week struck down a California law that restricted AI-generated video content, also known as deepfakes, related to elections. Elon Musk and X were part of the challenge to the […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story TikTok announced this week that it will begin rolling out Footnotes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system similar to Community Notes on X and Meta. The system will allow users to contribute additional context to […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story President Donald Trump is suing The Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Rupert Murdoch, for $10 billion. The lawsuit accuses the news organization of defamation over a story it published last week reporting […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Overnight, the Senate approved about $9 billion in cuts to federal spending, including over $1 billion in funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which funds NPR and PBS stations). The legislation […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story This week, there were multiple news stories surrounding the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), a site where 12% of Americans say they regularly get news. On Wednesday, CEO Linda Yaccarino announced that […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to President Donald Trump in order to settle his lawsuit against CBS News, which arose over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Zohran Mamdani is the apparent winner of this week’s Democratic primary for New York City mayor, and some are connecting his success to his viral videos and use of new media. Mamdani has […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles and the responses from the federal government and law enforcement have created a major news event that touches many facets of the current information environment: […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story X (formerly Twitter) is piloting a new use for its Community Notes feature: flagging posts that generate agreement from users who normally have differing views, Axios is reporting. The end goal is to […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The tensions between President Donald Trump and U.S. public broadcasters continued to play out this week with two major developments: About a quarter of U.S. adults (24%) say Congress should remove federal funding […]