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    Measles outbreak raises concerns about health information

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, so do concerns about the health information Americans are encountering. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recently confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, has offered some public comments in […]

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    White House says it will now select the press pool

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday that the White House will now select which news outlets cover the president in the press pool, a smaller group of reporters who have […]

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    Democrats consider digital media strategy post-election

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story In the wake of President Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, Democrats and left-leaning influencers are grappling with the changing digital media ecosystem and its role in the election outcome.  A recent Pew Research Center study of […]

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    Musk claims journalists are doxxing his staff

    ☀️ 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, Elon Musk claimed that journalists reporting on his Department of Government Efficiency and its employees are “doxxing” his staff, or publishing private personal information about them.  As they have for the past four decades, most Americans say criticism from news […]

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    How news influencers talked about Trump and Harris during the 2024 election

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Trump administration last week issued an executive order to freeze spending on all federal loans and grants, which has since been rescinded after major backlash. News of the spending freeze was initially […]

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    Chinese company DeepSeek bursts onto the AI scene

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story DeepSeek, a Chinese technology company, recently introduced a new AI chatbot system with similar capabilities to major U.S. models like ChatGPT. But DeepSeek built its model with much less investment and computing power […]

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