Digiday·2026-06-08
ChatGPT ads land in U.K. as OpenAI outlines EU privacy rulesWeeks after OpenAI started laying the foundations for running ads in ChatGPT in Europe, it has now started putting up the walls, specifically around how those ads will comply with the region’s privacy laws. In the latest update to its EU ads policy, which was added on June 2, OpenAI states that it will only serve ads to users who have explicitly opted in, and in turn that it will rely on that cons
The Guardian·2026-06-08
Let’s call it what it is: antisocial media | Brief lettersWhy is it that in the coverage of the downsides of the activities of the tech bros’ platforms, the term “social media” is used (Ministers may try to curb spread of misinformation during social unrest, 6 June). “Social” implies care, consideration and cooperation. It’s time commentators dumped this cosy terminology and named it for what it is – antisocial media. Colin Hines Twickenham, London • Michael Peel (Letters, 3 June) rightly says that AI has no empathy, but it can appear otherwise. On “hearing” my exclamation of “Oh no!” while watching nestlings being devoured by a predator on the TV show Springwatch, a convincingly concerned voice from my phone asked: “Are you alright? Can I help?” Barbara McDowell Ludlow, Shropshire • So David Sullivan, whose Sunday Sport newspaper carried headlin
The Guardian·2026-06-08
Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted 60 Minutes to say Renee Good was ‘driving toward officer’The fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at CBS of interfering with a broadcast segment on the killing of the Minneapolis protester Renee Good by an immigration officer in January. The veteran broadcaster, who was recently dismissed from the show, said CBS News’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, had sent an email to his supervisor requesting changes shortly before the airing of the segment in question. In an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday, the 68-year-old Pelley accused Weiss of injecting “falsehoods and bias” into programming. Pelley told the outlet: “Two of the things in the email include, ‘Can we make the protesters look more violent?’ Now, I’m paraphrasing. I don’t have the quote, but that’s what was communicated to me. And the other
The Guardian·2026-06-08
‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report findsLocal social media groups are fuelling misinformation in areas with no reliable sources of news, according to an investigation that reveals the scale of fake news flowing to vulnerable communities across Britain. Misinformation was nearly three times more common in areas with little or no recognised local journalism, according to a study of tens of thousands of posts seen by the Guardian. Immigration and Islamophobia were the most common topics of misinformation across Facebook and X. Spikes in misinformation were identified around local elections. Misinformation grew as a share of news posts by 56% in the run-up to polling day, compared with earlier in the year, from 8.2% of all news posts to 12.9%. The findings, by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) thinktank, are based on the analysis o
Digiday·2026-06-08
Google’s AI opt-out leaves publishers with a choice they can’t safely usePublishers have finally won the right to keep their articles out of Google’s AI search results. The harder question now is whether that right is usable when the system keeps them opted in by default, and Google withholds the AI-specific data they’d need to judge if pulling out is worth the risk. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has ordered Google to give publishers greater control and
Adweek·2026-06-08
OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO, Joining Anthropic in Race to Wall StreetOpenAI had no additional comment beyond its post announcing the filing.
Adweek·2026-06-08
Through Visa Partnership, EA Sports FC Rides World Cup Wave Without Mentioning FIFAGaming giant wants in on summer of soccer after ending FIFA deal in 2022
Adweek·2026-06-08
EXCLUSIVE: Kantar Hires Martina Suess Cromer As Its Top U.S. MarketerResearch firm Kantar has hired Martina Suess Cromer as svp of North America marketing, and head of global brand and communications.
Adweek·2026-06-08
EXCLUSIVE: Accenture Song Will Buy Whalar, Gaining Global Scale in Influencer MarketingAccenture Song, the consulting giant's marketing services arm, will acquire marketing agency Whalar.
The Guardian·2026-06-08
Revealed: David Sullivan’s Sunday Sport sold sexualised images of 15-year-old girlsIn 1987, the tabloid press in Britain was at the peak of its powers. The Sun newspaper, with its brash celebrity scoops and strident support for Margaret Thatcher – who won her third general election that year – was selling almost 4m copies a day. Competition for stories and readers was relentless, resulting in ever more salacious and lurid editorial devices to win a slice of the readership from rivals on the newsstand. The Sun stood atop the tabloid market, its topless Page 3 girls credited with a share of its popularity. It was against this backdrop that the Sunday Sport, a red-top publication occupying the seediest corner of Fleet Street, launched a feature that even by its own standards appeared to plumb the depths of journalistic ethics. On 6 September 1987, the newspaper began counti
Digiday·2026-06-08
TikTok now has a seat next to Amazon and Walmart in RFPsBrands are starting to put TikTok Shop in writing. The platform is appearing in formal agency RFPs alongside Amazon and Walmart as a named channel with a committed budget. Normally, it s more of a footnote on them. That s a significant shift in status for a platform that spent years fighting doubts about its logistics , its ability to convert consumers and its very existence in the U.S. market . P
Digiday·2026-06-08
Liftoff CEO on the IPO rebound, AppLovin comparisons, and why mobile apps remain an AI growth storyRelated Insights The Programmatic Marketer By the numbers: Liftoff’s IPO tests ad tech’s mettle on the public markets Read More On the morning Liftoff Mobile finally hit the public markets and raised $437 million, CEO Jeremy Bondy sat down with Digiday to explain why the company, backed by a private equity firm Blackstone, decided to make its initial public offering now and how he intends to thriv
The Verge·2026-06-05T14:00:00Z
Peacock will stream all 104 World Cup matches in Dolby Vision, Atmos… and Spanish.Telemundo’s live feed on Peacock will apparently be the first commercial deployment of the efficient Dolby AC-4 codec by a streaming platform, promising immersive stadium sound that shouldn’t overload the network. Peacock will also be streaming the World Cup in 4K and 1080p HDR, according to Dolby spokesperson Andrea Villarreal.
Update and correction: Peacock will stream the games in 4K and 1080p HDR, but won’t offer personalized audio controls as previously stated.
[Link: Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos to Power Telemundo’s FIFA World Cup ™ 2026 Coverage on Peacock, a Streaming First | https://news.dolby.com/en-WW/266633-dolby-vision-and-dolby-atmos-to-power-telemundo-s-fifa-world-cup-2026-coverage-on-peacock-a-streaming-first/ | Dolby Newsroom]
Nieman Lab·2026-06-04
Tansa is pioneering a new model for investigative journalism in JapanOn paper, Japan seems to have a thriving journalism sector. The world s third-largest economy also is home to several of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world, such as the Yomiuri Shimbun, which, with 6.2 million subscribers, the highest paid circulation of any independent media outlet in the world, and the Asahi Shimbun, with 3.5 million subscribers. But widely staffed newsrooms and
Nieman Lab·2026-06-04
With its new season, the podcast Scene on Radio takes on the newsFor more than a decade, the podcast Scene on Radio has dedicated each season to one big topic: whiteness , men and the origins of misogyny , climate change , and capitalism , among others. Now, after seven seasons, the team is turning the lens inward with a season called The News . The first two episodes dropped last week. We started talking about doing a media season probably five years ago, said
Nieman Lab·2026-06-03
The Minnesota Star Tribune will cut 15% of its staff — and may become a nonprofitJust a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting , The Minnesota Star Tribune will offer buyouts and lay off up to 15% of its staff, the company said Tuesday . The Star Tribune has 495 employees, including a newsroom of 200 journalists. The cuts will affect every department and the newsroom will be reduced to 175 people, the Star Tribune said. CEO Steve Grove told employees
Nieman Lab·2026-06-03
These 16 new journalism jobs could help publishers “future-proof” their newsroomsTen years ago, the phrase chatbots with specific character voices would not have appeared in a journalism job posting. But here we are in 2026, and The Economist — hiring for a senior AI engineer for its AI Lab — mentions that fine-tuning [AI] models for style or persona is a great bit of experience for the role. The senior AI engineer position is one entry in a list included in a Future Newsrooms
Variety·2026-05-27T21:02:28Z
Byron Allen Closes BuzzFeed Acquisition, Says Company Is Now 'Officially Chasing YouTube'Byron Allen now is the majority owner of BuzzFeed -- the struggling digital media player that Allen plans to use to launch a free-streaming platform that he imagines will rival video colossus YouTube.
