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Meta Hires Chief Correspondent From Tucker Carlson-Founded Daily Caller
Mark Zuckerberg has hired Henry Rodgers to help the company shape its “public policy”
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Trump Calls ‘60 Minutes’ Interview With Kamala Harris the ‘Biggest Broadcasting Scandal in History’
The president says CBS News “defrauded the public” by editing answers from the former vice president, again suggesting they should be “immediately terminated”
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News Corp. Posts Higher Profits, While Wall Street Journal Subscribers Decline
The news giant lost 30,000 WSJ customers during the holiday quarter as overall Dow Jones subscriber growth was flat
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DOGE Cancels Politico’s Government Funding After $8 Million in Subscription Contracts Revealed
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the political outlet’s funding “will no longer be happening”
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TikTok ‘Uncertainty’ Helps Snapchat, CEO Evan Spiegel Says
“Advertisers are very focused on contingency planning” in case TikTok is banned, the Snap boss says
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Pro-Trump TikTok Party Host Threatens Legal Action Against New York Magazine
CJ Pearson says the magazine’s viral “Cruel Kids” cover unfairly branded the party as racist
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The New York Times Adds 350,000 Subscribers in Q4 to Mark Best Digital Sub Growth in Years
NYT hits 11.43 million customers as Q4 sales of $726.6 million match analyst estimates
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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Tears Up as Dad Mourns ‘Dream Girl’ Daughter and Wife Who Died in DC Crash | Video
The anchor took 10 seconds to collect herself as guest Andy Beyer shared the pain of losing his “soulmate” Justyna
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Elon Musk Suggests America Should ‘Defund NPR’ as Government Cuts Roll On
“It should survive on its own,” the X owner bluntly states of National Public Radio
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Cynthia Nixon ‘Mad as Hell’ at NYU, Trump Over Canceled Trans Doctor Appointments
The actress says it “sickens me to my core” that kids cannot receive puberty-blocking medication following a Trump executive order
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AOC Rips Elon Musk as ‘Morally Vacant’ and ‘One of the Most Unintelligent Billionaires’ Over Government Cuts | Video
The Democratic congresswoman says Musk is “not smart” for his actions to cut trillions from the U.S. government’s budget
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Fox to Launch New Streaming Service by End of 2025
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says the SVOD will be priced “relatively low” and target viewers who do not pay for traditional TV
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Fox Q2 Profit, Revenue Surge on Strong Political Advertising, Sports and Tubi
The media giant also reveals plans to launch a streaming service by the end of 2025
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Spotify Adds Record 11 Million Premium Subscribers and Posts First Annual Profit
The music streaming giant hit 263 million paying customers in Q4 and closed 2024 with a $1.18 billion profit
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Apple’s Emergency Request to Halt Google Antitrust Remedy Trial Denied
Delaying the April trial would “only perpetuate” Google’s “unlawful” search monopoly and harm the public, Judge Amit Mehta ruled