Hacker News with Generative AI: News Media

Brave wants court to endorse scraping of News Corp content (theregister.com)
Brave has gone to court to head off potential legal action from News Corp over the browser maker's auto-generated AI summaries of articles published by Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
Moscow-based global news network has infected AI tools with propaganda (newsguardrealitycheck.com)
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
The Guardian now requires users to pay to reject personalised adversiting (theguardian.com)
This week we are launching Guardian Ad-Lite, a new subscription product that allows readers who would prefer to read the Guardian without personalised advertising to do so.
Bezos changes at Wapo lead to mass subscription cancellations – again (npr.org)
More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since its owner, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced on Wednesday that he would radically overhaul the paper's opinion pages to reflect libertarian priorities and to exclude opposing points of view.
Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit (npr.org)
The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel.
US publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying outage due to ransomware (theregister.com)
US newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is blaming its recent service disruptions on a "cybersecurity attack," per a regulatory filing, and is the latest company to avoid using the dreaded R word.
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest newspaper quits X, now on Bluesky (bsky.app)
FCC Seeks Comment on WCBS News Distortion Complaint (docs.fcc.gov)
NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X (thedesk.net)
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week.
Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken? (niemanlab.org)
A responsible news media has a lot of jobs, but here’s one of the most important: giving audiences an accurate image of the state of the world around them.
New York Times and Tech Guild Reach Deal (nytimes.com)
The Times Tech Guild, which represents tech workers at The New York Times, said on Wednesday that it had reached a tentative deal with The Times on a contract, after more than two years of bargaining and a weeklong strike.
AI Does NYT Connections (notion.site)
Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions (theguardian.com)
Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software.
New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence (wired.com)
As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work.
Onion CEO: We won InfoWars auction, can't wait to relaunch, fun still to come (bsky.app)
French news titles sue X over allegedly running their content without payment (theguardian.com)
Several leading French newspapers have said they are suing the social media platform X, accusing it of running their content without payment.
The Guardian is leaving X (engadget.com)
The Guardian announced it will no longer be active on X (formerly Twitter) — all its editorial accounts will stop posting on the platform.
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk's X from its official accounts (theguardian.com)
The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from its official accounts.
Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week (nytimes.com)
Employees at The Washington Post will be expected to work from the office five days a week next year, according to a new memo from the newspaper’s chief executive, the latest crackdown on pandemic-era remote work policies.
Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI (techcrunch.com)
The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross a virtual picket line and provide services during a strike by New York Times tech workers.
Wikipedia Offers to Reveal User Identities in Sealed Covers in ANI Case (medianama.com)
Wikipedia told the Delhi High Court that it is willing to provide basic subscriber information (BSI) details about users who edited the page on Asian News International (ANI) in a sealed cover to the court, during an appeal hearing at the Delhi High Court on October 28.
Meta bans Russia state media outlets (cbc.ca)
X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe' (techcrunch.com)
The news website accused of fueling UK riots (bbc.com)
Chat Control reported on by largest newspaper outlet in The Netherlands [video] (youtube.com)
The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet (nytimes.com)
Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content from News Outlets (forbes.com)
London's Evening Standard axes daily print edition (bbc.com)
Partnership with News Corp (openai.com)
A smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal (theguardian.com)