Former Fox News staffer Andrew Delancey is suing the producer, Justin Wells — who was fired last spring along with the host — over the alleged assault and the network over alleged sexual harassment and negligence.
He joins the association from the office of Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.), who serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The BBC is staring down the barrel of another real terms funding cut after the U.K. government signaled its intention to renege on the 2022 license fee deal. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer told BBC Radio 4’s Today show that the government would announce the new level of the license fee “very soon.”
Rupert was deposed this week and his son Lachlan will sit for a grilling as well, as the 2020-related case moves along.
TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been locked in a legal battle with Montana since the state passed the ban in April.
British regulators announced a review into whether the bid, backed mostly by funds from the United Arab Emirates, could result in adverse foreign influence over the British press.
Meta Platforms on Wednesday escalated its battle with the Federal Trade Commission by claiming in a new lawsuit that the agency’s structure, including its ability to conduct in-house hearings, is unconstitutional. The lawsuit — which comes as Meta and the FTC are battling over teens’ data — includes a request to prevent the agency from moving forward with a hearing that could result in an order prohibiting Meta from using teens’ data for ad targeting or algorithms.
X, formerly known as Twitter, is in a pair of legal battles with Adeia, an entity spun out of Xperi that holds a trove of patents, including property with ties to TiVo.
Streaming services like YouTube TV and Sling TV don’t have to worry about becoming the legal equivalent of cable TV or satellite TV companies any time soon through action by the FCC. That was that the implicit message that FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel left with Capitol Hill on Thursday when she was pressed for a regulatory update on the video issue by the leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
For Streaming, It’s Only The Beginning
Former FCC chair Mignon Clyburn says regulations shouldn’t stifle the progress of indie streamers serving underrepresented audiences.
The FCC has given broadcasters some extra time to make sure their emergency alerts comply with new rules that favor IP-based alerts, but only for the broadcasters the agency has concluded really need the extension.
The agreement would see Canadian news continue to be shared on Google’s platforms in return for the company making annual payments to CBC News and Radio-Canada in the range of $100 million, a source with knowledge of the negotiations said. The federal government and Google agreed on the regulatory framework earlier this week, a government source familiar with the talks said.
Campaigns on the state and federal level will be required to clearly say which political advertisements airing in Michigan were created using artificial intelligence under legislation expected to be signed in the coming days by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat. It also would prohibit use of AI-generated deepfakes within 90 days of an election without a separate disclosure identifying the media as manipulated. (Alex Brandon/AP)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has temporarily stepped down as chairman of his cable television network Revolt amid multiple sexual abuse allegations against the music mogul. Revolt announced […]
Rupert Murdoch is set to be questioned under oath on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of voting technology company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp. over coverage of debunked vote-rigging claims involving the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a person familiar with the matter said. Murdoch will be deposed in Los Angeles, according to that person, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The deposition does not appear on the public docket for the case.
Investors claim that WWE board members favored a merger with Endeavor’s UFC to allow Vince McMahon to stay on as executive chairman of TKO Group.
Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint.
Hill Harper is reportedly exiting The Good Doctor amid the actor’s Democratic bid for a Michigan Senate seat. The performer, who plays Dr. Marcus Andrews on the ABC drama, won’t be appearing in the show’s upcoming seventh season.
A federal magistrate judge on Tuesday recommended that Meta Platforms be awarded a $36 million default judgment against four residents of Hanoi, Vietnam, who hijacked the accounts of advertising and marketing agency employees in order to perpetrate an ad fraud scheme.
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel is proposing prohibiting cable and satellite TV operators from imposing early termination fees on their video subscribers, calling them junk fees that discourage competition. The notice of proposed rulemaking, which Rosenworcel has teed up for a vote at the commission’s December public meeting, would also require multichannel video programming distributors to provide rebates to customers who cancel service before the end of a month for which they have already paid.
The letter said the CHC was concerned about “preventing the spread of mis- and disinformation in Latino communities.”
Donald Trump is still very angry over the erroneous reporting about the financial losses at his Twitter clone, Truth Social, and in a new lawsuit filed Monday, the ex-president claimed that the reports were actually a vast media conspiracy involving “no less than 20 major media outlets.”
X filed a lawsuit against the liberal advocacy group on Monday, saying it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to “drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.”
A former Sinclair employee has sent a letter to the FCC, asking it to revoke the stations group’s licenses over “questions about Sinclair’s commitment to journalistic integrity, diversity, and compliance with FCC regulations.”
The House Select Committee on Competition with the Chinese Communist Party has sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook questioning whether concerns about Apple’s relationship with China spurred the termination of the Apple+ series The Problem with Jon Stewart. Last month, when the show’s end was announced just weeks before taping for a third season was set to begin, the New York Times reported that Stewart and Apple parted ways over creative control issues.
The rules package, which the commission ratified on Wednesday, would empower the agency to review and investigate instances of discrimination by broadband providers to different communities based on income, race, ethnicity and other protected classes.