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New York Times:
How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social media content removal, led to the ban on X  —  To combat disinformation, Brazil gave one judge broad power to police the internet.  Now, after he blocked X, some are wondering whether that was a good idea.
Associated Press:
Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country  —  The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …
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Threads: @lorakolodny, @andrealessi, @the.morning.constitutional, @lorakolodny, @quillmatiq, @johannes.ernst, and @crumbler.  Mastodon: @chartier@toot.cafe.  Bluesky: @bsky.app
X: @elonmusk, @prestonjbyrne, @zanfa, @tedcruz, @pedrohcgs, @iohk_charles, @luke_metro, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @marionawfal, @noahpinion, @ggreenwald, @elonmusk, @carnage4life, @ballouxfrancois, @brendancarrfcc, @ballouxfrancois, @prestonjbyrne, @willoremus, @albertwenger, @binarybits, @ggreenwald, @matthiasellis, @zedonarrival, @brendancarrfcc, @davidmackau, @adamscochran, @shaunmmaguire, @shaunmmaguire, @shaunmmaguire, @ianbremmer, @bluesky, @chrchristensen, @chrchristensen, @brndxix, @chrchristensen, @bluesky, @notgwendalupe, @lindayax, @timsweeneyepic, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @mikeisaac, @jihoz_axie, @x, @djrothkopf, @levelsio, and @willguyatt
Forums: r/inthenews, r/MarchAgainstNazis, r/worldnews, r/teslainvestorsclub, r/NPR, r/Journalism, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technology, r/technews, r/VaushV, r/elonmusk, r/news, r/InternationalNews, r/Fauxmoi, r/musked, r/law, r/Twitter, r/worldnews, and Beehaw
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New York Times:
Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users  —  The platform went dark across Brazil on Saturday, sending online commentators to new digital town squares.
New York Times:
Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine  —  The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.
Nick Burns / Americas Quarterly:
A profile of Alexandre de Moraes as even some supporters wonder if the Brazilian Supreme Court judge has become too powerful and gone too far by banning X  —  An escalating clash with Elon Musk and damaging revelations in the press are intensifying a long-running debate about whether Alexandre de Moraes is too powerful.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands  —  In the battle between Elon Musk and Brazil, there are no heroes — only two sides engaged in an epic display of hypocrisy and overreach.
Wall Street Journal:
Big YouTube shows including Hot Ones and Good Mythical Morning attract large audiences but aren't yet getting Primetime Emmy nominations and ensuing ad revenue  —  ‘Hot Ones,’ ‘Chicken Shop Date’ and ‘Good Mythical Morning’ draw big audiences but aren't getting the kind of ad dollars and accolades TV shows do
More: AV Club, The Wrap, and Mashable
Threads: @simondowens.  X: @cleoabram and @thesimonetti
LinkedIn: Mario Armstrong and Shira Lazar
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models  —  Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI chatbots, including by adding a “strategic text sequence” to data sources, and via an AI optimization startup  —  When I set out to improve my tainted reputation with chatbots, I discovered a new world of A.I. manipulation.
More: Digital Journal, Longreads, and Axios
Threads: @kevinroose.  Bluesky: @g026r.leftblank.org.  X: @ashleevance.  Forums: r/technology

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CNBC:
Disney and DirecTV reach an agreement that will bring Disney's ESPN and other channels back to the pay-tv provider's customers after a roughly two week blackout

Joseph Gedeon / Politico:
The US State Department says Russia's RT is operating a military procurement network to supply Russian forces and is growing global covert influence operations

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is in talks with BuzzFeed to stream Hot Ones, to add to its live lineup; Sean Evans would host several live episodes specifically for Netflix

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Ed Newton-Rex / Music Business Worldwide:
It's time for audio services like Spotify to deal with AI by using labels and banning or downweighting music made with AI tools that don't license training data
Matt Stoller / BIG:
Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A Texas federal judge who held Tesla stock denies a motion to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing Media Matters of misrepresenting the amount of extremist content on X

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a now-patched zero-day in a Chromium core engine to steal crypto from organizations
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned” of CSAM
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
The City of Columbus, OH, sues security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of sharing data stolen by a ransomware gang with media
New York Times:
Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at US tech companies with E2EE messaging apps, like Signal, Apple, and Meta
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