The work done by @adewaard.bsky.social, Shawna Kidman, @mirandabanks.bsky.social, @itstv.bsky.social, @ppopiel.bsky.social & others on this report from MACRO Lab challenging Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery is excellent. It's a great example of engaged, policy relevant scholarship.

Pawel Popiel@ppopiel.bsky.social · yesterday

Just as a corrective to the Ellison PR machine, some empirical data and analysis of the significant, pervasive, and detrimental impacts of the merger to the U.S. media system: macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-wa...

Just as a corrective to the Ellison PR machine, some empirical data and analysis of the significant, pervasive, and detrimental impacts of the merger to the U.S. media system: macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-wa...

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · yesterday

What a great platform to publicly deny promising Trump a CNN overhaul or $20 million in free advertising in exchange for merger approvals. Or to speak out against his bullying of journalists you employ or want to employ. Weird that you didn’t do any of that.

Just some preliminary data for context, looking at the creative labor impacts of the Paramount-WBD merger: the combined entity would acquire nearly half of all US scripted TV creative labor and nearly one-third of live-action creative labor. Below-the-line jobs would face one less big employer.

Mark Ruffalo@markruffalo.bsky.social · yesterday

David Ellison once again 💩 on the 5625 career film makers that have clearly opposed this merger based on the loss of competition, consolidation of power&decision making, loss of jobs and the ridiculous idea that he is going to make more movies with less money because he is starting $83 bil in hole.

Ellison put on a dinner headlined “Honoring the Trump White House” and included his CBS editor, top anchor, and WH correspondent, so he can spare us this both-sides ridiculousness

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · yesterday

Shameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

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TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2w ago

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

Rob Bonta on Paramount merger lawsuit TRO: "We’re fighting for a free and fair market and a thriving film and television industry that serves creatives and audiences alike. We have a full tank of gas, the law on our side, and look forward to continuing to make our case.” oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Quiet on the Set! Attorney General Bonta Secures Critical, Early Win in Lawsuit to Block Warner Bros./Paramount Merger

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the states’ request for a temporary r...

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OK!! Let's go!! A California judge has issued a TRO to stop Paramount takeover with Warner Bros. www.freepress.net/news/federal...

Federal Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order to Stop Paramount Skydance Takeover Without Further Court Review

These state attorneys general are stepping up to enforce the nation’s laws when the Trump administration is refusing to do so.

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this may rival england v. mexico for the most insane match

Public servants need to be, and need to appear to be, above reproach. www.propublica.org/article/para...

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

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Just in time: "Nexstar, one of the largest owners of TV stations in the U.S., has been barred [from acquiring] Tegna, a smaller TV station owner, since the transaction would give Nexstar too much control over local TV properties across the country." variety.com/2026/tv/news...

FCC Moves to End Cap on National Broadcast Ownership

FCC Moves to End Cap on National Broadcast Ownership

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New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers.

New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers

The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g...

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Why I’m Suing to Block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger (Guest Column)

Rob Bonta, the California attorney general, argues that the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger will jack up prices and lead to fewer movies nad TV shows.

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A product of collaboration among scholars concerned with and studying media consolidation, this report empirically dissects the dangerous implications of the Paramount-WBD merger across several media markets and policy domains, and to the media system more broadly. macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-wa...

“Trump & his cronies want to rush this anti-competitive deal through because David Ellison has demonstrated time & again that he will leverage his control of his media empire to silence Trump’s critics & amplify MAGA propaganda," says @jgo4justice.bsky.social. "That’s corruption, plain & simple."

State Attorneys General Sue to Stop Paramount Skydance's Corrupt Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery

Free Press hails this state-led effort to defend consumer choice and journalism against a billionaire push to censor and control the media.

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States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Defying DOJ

A coalition of states has sued to block the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros., though the Department of Justice approved the deal last month.

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Breaking News: Twelve Democratic states filed a lawsuit to block Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., arguing it would harm cinemas.

Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Challenged in Court by California and 11 Other States

The lawsuit, filed by California and 11 other states, argues that the deal would harm movie theaters and damage America’s entertainment industry.

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A product of collaboration among scholars concerned with and studying media consolidation, this report empirically dissects the dangerous implications of the Paramount-WBD merger across several media markets and policy domains, and to the media system more broadly. macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-wa...

This is where we are. It's not the individual students' fault: they see institutional normalization (eg, uni literally offering paid tools without training), better grammatical output, and most students using them without getting caught due to the scale of the issue. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/w...

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.

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This is obviously great news. At the same time, as with so many other domains (AI regulation comes to mind), the state-level approach should be a fallback not the increasing norm. www.pymnts.com/cpi-posts/st...

State AGs Prepare Antitrust Complaint Against Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery | PYMNTS.com

A coalition of state attorneys general is preparing an antitrust lawsuit that could seek to block Paramount's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros.

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And here I was going to make my students subscribe to every single available AI chatbot service, triangulate each output across all of them every single time, and be sure to bring a smart phone, smart watch, tablet, and smart glasses in addition to their laptop in case it craps out.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w ago

“University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.”

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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Stop. "Set inside the so-called “Tillyverse,” a surreal digital world located somewhere up in the Cloud, the film will follow Tilly ... Things spiral when a seductive rogue bot convinces her to abandon her guardrails and begin developing desires, impulses and ambitions." variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie ‘Misaligned,’ Marking Feature Debut for AI ‘Actor’

Tilly Norwood, the controversial AI actor, is to front her first feature film, the comedy-drama Misaligned from AI studio Particle6

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“You tell me what you would have done in October, November, December 2024 when your largest competitor was the main backer of the next president of the United States. This company depends on the government.” www.wsj.com/business/jef...

How Bezos Learned to Love Trump—and Win More Contracts for Blue Origin

The space company has booked rapid growth under this administration, after the founder spent president’s first term being ‘hated.’

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The risk is what makes it so good. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

Comcast is planning to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky.

Comcast plans to split into two public companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky

Comcast is planning to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky.

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When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Another one. "The partnership will give A24 access to DeepMind’s research and infrastructure, while DeepMind researchers will work with the studio to build out new workflows. The deal does not give Google access to A24’s content library or its data." variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Google Invests $75 Million in A24 to Develop AI-Powered Filmmaking Tools

A24 and Google have struck an AI research partnership that will see the independent studio work to develop new AI-powered technologies for filmmakers.

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Human Rights Watch releases report on Operation Metro Surge entitled "A Manufactured Crisis" www.hrw.org/sites/defaul...

US: Federal Government Terrorized Minnesota Communities

The Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota between December 2025 and March 2026 led to widespread human rights violations, terrorized residents with ...

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