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David McCabe / New York Times:
A US judge says Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising tech, the second time in a year a court found Google acted illegally  —  The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.
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Bloomberg:
In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools  —  Google's AI Overviews Echo Anti-Abortion Messaging, Report Finds  —  Sandberg Challenged Over Meta Business Moves During FTC Trial
Axios:
The DOJ and 17 US states that brought the antitrust case seek to force Google to sell off its “network” ad business, which is ~12% of Alphabet's total revenue  —  Google's dominance of the online advertising and ad-tech markets violates U.S. antitrust laws, a Federal court ruled Thursday …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs. $10.51B est., net income of $2.89B, and stops reporting subscriber numbers on a quarterly basis  —  Netflix is no longer reporting number of subscribers on a quarterly basis.  But it's still motoring on a hot growth engine …
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NPR:
An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher on the impact of Trump's proposed budget cuts; $100M of the $121M NPR receives annually goes to member stations  —  The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to eliminate nearly all federal funding for public media …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In an X post, the FCC chairman suggests Comcast may be violating its licenses and accuses it of “news distortion” after MSNBC didn't air a WH press hearing  —  FCC chairman Brendan Carr suggested that Comcast may be violating its broadcast licenses after MSNBC declined to carry …
Financial Times:
RedBird is drawing up plans to be the “sole-control owner of the Telegraph Media Group” to bring an end to the media group's protracted two-year sale  —  Plan would reduce stake of Abu Dhabi-based IMI to overcome objections of British government on grounds of foreign control
Discussion: The Times and Telegraph
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Zachary Young, a Navy veteran who won $5M in a defamation suit against CNN in January, sues Puck and the AP for their allegedly defamatory reporting on the case  —  Zachary Young also sued Puck News over its reporting on his lawsuit against CNN. … Young, in a lawsuit filed in Florida state court …
Discussion: Variety, Fox News and Newsbusters
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Chris Matthews is reviving Hardball on Substack with new episodes on Mondays at noon; Matthews abruptly retired from MSNBC in March 2020  —  The former MSNBC host retired five years ago, but says he will reboot his cable news program on the subscription platform.  —  Hardball is back.
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Similarweb: total desktop social referral traffic from Facebook grew 75% YoY for 68 top English-language news sites due to algorithm changes in January 2025
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Julian Sancton / The Hollywood Reporter:
Breakthrough Prize Foundation cut Seth Rogen's criticism of Silicon Valley's Trump support from a “full” YouTube video; a spokesperson blamed the event's length
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Q&A with Phil Spencer on A Minecraft Movie, potential IP for future movies, Microsoft's Hollywood goals, Fallout Season 2 and the Minecraft TV series, and more
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Study: in South Korea, active YouTube users spent 210 minutes per day on the service in Q4, while Netflix subscribers spent 96 minutes per day on the streamer
Discussion: Puck, The Streamable and Digital i
Catherine Perloff / The Information:
Source: in January 2025, Pinterest considered buying an ad tech firm to boost its ad sales, and is working to allow ad sales through independent ad tech firms
Discussion: Yahoo Finance
Washington Post:
President Trump's DC US attorney pick, Ed Martin, has been on Russian state-funded RT and Sputnik as a commentator over 150 times from August 2016 to April 2024