Karina Montoya
@pressgirlk.bsky.social
🌎 #journo researcher & program manager at @cmdgtech.bsky.social by @openmarkets.bsky.social 📝 media, digital markets, AI, public policy | 🗣ESP, FR, PT | https://linktr.ee/pressgirlk 📍Bay Area, CA |
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Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
"The Commission had every legal tool it needed to protect media pluralism and chose not to use them. This merger hands even more control over Europe's entertainment and news to a single American conglomerate.” - @courtneyr.bsky.social www.openmarketsinstitute.eu/publications...
Clearance of Paramount-Warner Bros Merger Is a Failure to Protect Europe's Creative Industries — OMI Europe
The Commission's approval comes despite months of warnings from civil society, journalists, and the film and TV industries that the deal would concentrate an unprecedented share of production, distrib...
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‼️ The judge granted the TRO. The Paramount-WBD deal is paused globally for 14 days. 🔊 Loud message to the market: there is credible evidence this deal risks lessening & hurting competition in the U.S. ➡️ Aug 3: Preliminary injuction hearing is scheduled to decide if pause goes beyond 14 days.
Karina Montoya@pressgirlk.bsky.social · 3w ago#WBDParamount: At the court hearing on the temporary restraining order (TRO) sought by 12 states, it has come down to Paramount asking the court to help it avoid paying a millionaire fine for delays in closing the deal. California's lawyer, James Weingarten: "That ask is beyond the pale."
Not sure if everybody already knew this story, but I learned it only recently and was so taken aback by it that I thought it was fake. Well, it's real — I guess genuinely cool things do happen every now and then.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2w agoMore than 18 years ago, a baby named Lamine Yamal and his mom Sheila met Lionel Messi at a @unicef.org fundraising photoshoot. Today, both are UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors. One of them will be the FIFA WorldCup 2026 champion.
Bien jugado, England. Será para la próxima, Francia. GREAT GAME.
#WBDParamount: The judge just decided she will not rule from the bench. She committed to issue a ruling by July 22. Paramount closed by saying: We promise we won't close the deal until we hear from you, your honor.
#WBDParamount: At the court hearing on the temporary restraining order (TRO) sought by 12 states, it has come down to Paramount asking the court to help it avoid paying a millionaire fine for delays in closing the deal. California's lawyer, James Weingarten: "That ask is beyond the pale."
Excellent reporting from @propublica.org, as officials tasked with regulating the media market in the public interest seek to do the exact opposite. The Skydance-Paramount deal should have not happened. FCC Chair Brendan Carr & Comm. Trusty should have not voted. 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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Ossoff makes an important point here that accurately frames Trump’s election fraud lies as racist. Trump’s 2020 election lies and efforts to overturn its results always target Black voters as illegitimate. The localities Trump challenged were disproportionately majority-Black.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoOssoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"
I guess I moved to California right when I should. Not that I anticipated any of this, but hey, glad to be here when peak levels of action are underway in tech policy, consumer protection, and antitrust 🤘 My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Corner Newsletter: California Takes Antitrust Leadership Role
July 14th, 2026
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God how are they still trying to push this product to us 😂 Pretty desperate if you have to pull a Jenner for it 😅
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w agoNo.
Media consolidation clear as water. With the WBD-Paramount merger, the Ellison family would control: 🎦2 of 5 major film studios 🎤1 of 4 major TV networks: CBS (CBS News and CNN) & 15+ local CBS stations 📺3 major TV studios & >50% of basic cable 🌐3 major streaming services oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit to Block $110 Billion Warner Bros./Paramount Merger
LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today led a coalition of 12 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit challenging the $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (Warner B...
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Quite honestly these corporations have literally no excuse. They are already allowed to drag on disagreements for over a year as if they lacked the money to negotiate fair deals.
Center for Media & Digital Governance@cmdgtech.bsky.social · 4w agoWhen dominant tech platforms dictate the terms for journalism, they gain extraordinary power over the information citizens depend on. France's Meta ruling recognizes that protecting independent media is also about protecting democratic sovereignty. www.openmarketsinstitute.eu/publications...
Te quiero mucho Telemundo que no tienes publicidad en la "pausa de hidratación" 😂 #fifa2026 en mi lunch break ✌🏽
At the end of times, I guess there would only be a handful of people still capable of writing without AI 'help.' Not surprising but still: www.404media.co/linkedin-and...
LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests
An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.
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Los comentadores de Telemundo lamentándose que el Team USA no siguió sus recomendaciones pa meterle intesidad al partido es todo lo que quería escuchar #FIFA2026 😂
It's errands time this morning (day off, thank you USA 250). I'm at a car shop today not too far from home, and I see this flyer on the waiting area 💜
La estábamos pasando tan bien sin este hombre volviendo a ser el centro de atención (y bueno, tampoco es que la FIFA es una santa víctima de nada, que no hay corrupto sin corruptibles).
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.Trump: "The game tonight's going to be amazing. We're going to have a full team and Belgium is going to have a full team…If they beat us, we'll say it was — I say it was rigged just like the election was rigged in 2020."
Cabo Verde y México me han devuelto fe en la humanidad estos días. Qué fortaleza pa dejarlo todo en la cancha hasta el último segundo 🫂 🇨🇻 🇲🇽
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde es el verdadero ganador (para mí). P A R T I D A Z O. Se tenía que decir y se dijo.
Well, this is both hilarious and terrifying. Here's the Meta that went to court in DC to say their products are great and they do nothing to unfairly undermine their competitors to monopolize markets 😅
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social
