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☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story This week, there were multiple news stories surrounding the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), a site where 12% of Americans say they regularly get news. On Wednesday, CEO Linda Yaccarino announced that […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to President Donald Trump in order to settle his lawsuit against CBS News, which arose over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Zohran Mamdani is the apparent winner of this week’s Democratic primary for New York City mayor, and some are connecting his success to his viral videos and use of new media. Mamdani has […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles and the responses from the federal government and law enforcement have created a major news event that touches many facets of the current information environment:  […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story X (formerly Twitter) is piloting a new use for its Community Notes feature: flagging posts that generate agreement from users who normally have differing views, Axios is reporting. The end goal is to […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The tensions between President Donald Trump and U.S. public broadcasters continued to play out this week with two major developments:  About a quarter of U.S. adults (24%) say Congress should remove federal funding […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story There were continued developments at CBS News this week as Paramount executives reportedly forced out CBS News President Wendy McMahon, who told staff that “it’s become clear the company and I do not agree […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Hasan Piker, a popular progressive streamer with millions of followers across YouTube and Twitch, said he was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently after flying back to the U.S. Piker said […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was selected today as the first American leader of the Roman Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The first conclave since 2013 prompted discussion […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Swedish journalist Joakim Medin received an 11-month suspended sentence in Turkey for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Medin, affiliated with the Swedish newspaper Dagens ETC, was arrested at Istanbul airport on March 27 […]