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On Tuesday, two major German publisher associations called on the European Commission to prohibit Meta’s new terms of service from going into effect next week.

They alleged the terms for Meta business accounts could violate the E.U.’s Digital Markets Act. https://t.co/pcvc008DYK

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The Wall Street Journal's custom AI tool tries to surface insights that traditional polling can miss.

Called Doppler, it has already ingested 25 million TikTok videos and 500,000 podcasts ahead of the midterms. https://t.co/F4IWzG09J3

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The platform is most popular for women (47%), Hispanic Americans (51%), Americans with a high school diploma or less (46%), and Republicans (43%). https://t.co/OKy98SNXFB

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Newsrooms may need to develop verification standards suited to information of illicit origin, transparency norms that treat uncertainty as something to disclose, and a shared language for the ethical judgments. https://t.co/JiODBQo1Mz

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Legal experts warn Meta’s new terms still grant broad scraping permissions, despite language changes https://t.co/zUlRpuR1BH

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"We’ve built a big advertising and related convening business ... That’s one answer. It’s not the only answer, but it is one." https://t.co/RralajvvuK

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“Remember: always be truthful, not neutral.”

https://t.co/Q5k2dzQt3J

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"broad enough to drive a truck through" https://t.co/ctlTaydc78

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We always try to ask the hard questions

Thank you @HanaaTameez for a great interview!

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NEW: After our reporting, Meta removed “train” from its upcoming commercial terms. But the terms still allow broad website scraping and could potentially supersede robots.txt.

@decka227 and I followed up with the experts: https://t.co/hDTC0Kk4Ca

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In one test, an investigation was rated more accurate, important, and relevant when it was surrounded by community-focused stories (rather than other investigative reporting). https://t.co/ifgbWmZ7AA

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"Virtually all the new news sources are in urban areas, while rural America is increasingly arid news and information territory. And virtually all the philanthropic support for local news is in metro regions.” https://t.co/J3bz1nBtkG

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"I am a direct traffic girly and I know I'm not alone." https://t.co/v4BGtbSh5h

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Two creators went to NYU’s business school, then decided to make a show about the news https://t.co/siVB30MmIn

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On Friday, Meta removed the word “train” from a list of allowed use cases and limited those uses to “advertising and business products." The revised terms will still allow for broad scraping of websites, potentially superseding robots.txt files, according to legal experts. https://t.co/TJ9Kld5i1p

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Google’s News AI pilot expands to over 400 publications, including U.S. local news outlets https://t.co/fuCCOkIyll

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A new report argues newsrooms need to do more experiments — like, the kind with randomization and results https://t.co/ifgbWmZ7AA

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With the News AI pilot, publishers are paid to provide content that appears in experimental AI-powered features. https://t.co/fuCCOkIyll

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NEW: Virtually every news organization has a Meta business account. Meta’s new terms say it can scrape websites “associated with” those accounts—and use the content to “train” its products.

Me + @decka227 on what this means for publishers: https://t.co/QT0TSw5dcq

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"Virtually every news organization has at least one Meta business account." https://t.co/9XawysPvRt