“Tom Goldstein, a publisher of SCOTUSblog and one of the most experienced U.S. Supreme Court lawyers in the country, was indicted Thursday in Maryland federal court on charges he schemed to evade taxes for years and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts … from ‘ultrahigh-stakes poker’ games.”

“Ms. Watford, who joined The Post in May, also laid out big-picture goals for the company. Among them: reach 200 million paying users, which the slide deck described as a ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal,’ or ‘B.H.A.G.'”

“The experience of logging on and consuming information through the algorithmic morass of our feeds has never felt more dispiriting, commoditized, chaotic, and unhelpful than it does right now. It is useful, then, to juxtapose this information ecosystem—one that’s largely governed by culture-warring tech executives and populated by attention seekers—with a true technological public good.”

Newsroom do not have to be part of the INN network to qualify. If approved, INN will disburse grants in “as little as 72 hours.”

“At a moment when trust in media has plummeted and many news outlets have seen revenue decline, this type of slop content mill ring is a double whammy. It pollutes the information ecosystem with junk and stolen writing, and it siphons off programmatic advertising revenue from legitimate content producers.”

“This goes far beyond the issue of the presidential endorsement, which we recognize as the owner’s prerogative.”

“The team behind London Daily Digital say they plan to launch the title next month (February) as a website and a page-turning daily digital edition. It is also planned for the title to have a monthly print edition priced at £5 with a run of 100,000 copies.”

“Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s VP of global news partnerships, said that the goal is to ‘further enhance the usefulness of results’ in the Gemini experience.”

“The late 2010s genre of #MeToo reportage cannot thrive on today’s volatile internet. Information is misinformation and vice versa. Victims are offenders and offenders are victims. The word that comes up again and again in all the internet litigation of Lively v. Baldoni is ‘narrative.’ Abuse seems to be far from anyone’s mind.”

“When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — ‘Pope Francis endorses Trump,’ Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.”