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Leaders of the broadcasters – including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks – have instructed their organizations to continue broadcasting because they believe last weekend’s terminations were unlawful, CNN reported. —SS

“The Chinese government has argued that the dominance of American soft power, in the form of these news sources, has undermined China’s security at home and its economic and geopolitical interests abroad…‘Against this backdrop, the actions of the Trump administration are cause for enthusiastic celebration,’ said David Bandurski, the director of the China Media Project, a research organization. ‘In a matter of weeks, Trump seems to have slit the throat of American influence.’” —ND

“Why waste your time? Why be around powerful people if the only way they’re using their power is to lie to the public and to demean your profession and to undermine the amendment in the Constitution that your profession is built around?” — Ron Fournier, a former Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press, who said reporters would be better off spending the night calling sources and filing Freedom of Information Act requests.

“The Independent has hired a team to oversee Bulletin, which Broughton said was evidence that AI would not replace traditional journalism but would instead offer new ways of delivering news. The service’s summaries will also be approved by the journalists responsible for the longer-form articles on which the shorter, AI-generated posts will be based. [Christian Broughton, chief executive of The Independent] said the product would involve ‘no scraping [and] no disruptions’ risked by AI-only news services.” —ND

“His resignation came after the Post asked him and the university about complaints from students, professors and [American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop]’s partner journalists about his behavior.”

“‘[The tech companies] are talking a big game on censorship. But at the end of the day, the thing that really hits these companies bottom line is what data they can collect, how they can use that data, whether they can train their AI models on that data, and if this administration is planning to take the foot off the gas there while stepping up its work on censorship,’ [an anonymous source in the FTC] alleges. ‘I think that’s a change big tech would be very happy with.’” —ND

“The initiative by Il Foglio, a conservative-liberal daily, is part of a month-long journalistic experiment aimed at showing the impact AI technology has ‘on our way of working and our days,’ the newspaper’s editor, Claudio Cerasa, said.”