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March 22, 2023

CNBC: SEC charges Tron founder Justin Sun, celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul with crypto violations

CNBC: SEC charges Tron founder Justin Sun, celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul with crypto violations. “The Securities and Exchange Commission has unveiled fraud and unregistered securities charges against crypto founder and Grenadian diplomat Justin Sun, alongside separate violations against the celebrity backers of his Tronix and BitTorrent crypto assets, which included Jake Paul, Lindsay Lohan and Soulja Boy.”

March 4, 2023

Variety: John Mellencamp to Donate Archives to Indiana University

Variety: John Mellencamp to Donate Archives to Indiana University. “Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, the proudest Hoosier in rock, plans to donate his archives to Indiana University, the institution announced Friday during a Mellencamp Symposium being held on campus.”

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February 22, 2023

Insider: TikTokers are using AI to make Joe Biden talk about ‘getting bitches,’ Obama drop Minecraft slang, and Trump brag about how he’s great at Fortnite

Insider: TikTokers are using AI to make Joe Biden talk about ‘getting bitches,’ Obama drop Minecraft slang, and Trump brag about how he’s great at Fortnite. “Over the weekend, TikTok account @ai.voicesspeech posted a video featuring algorithmically-generated voices for Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and other notable figures playing the social deduction game ‘Among Us,’ and squabbling over who among them is the evil impostor.”

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February 21, 2023

Deadline: BBC Takes Down Story About Will Ferrell After Being Fooled By Fake Twitter Account

Deadline: BBC Takes Down Story About Will Ferrell After Being Fooled By Fake Twitter Account. “The BBC has taken down from its website a story about Will Ferrell after being fooled by a Twitter account that did not belong to the Anchorman actor. Ferrell has been in the UK this month on something of a soccer tour, attending a variety of games and mingling with fans.”

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February 12, 2023

Mashable: What is subtle merch? Cracking the coded messages of fandom that are all over TikTok

Mashable: What is subtle merch? Cracking the coded messages of fandom that are all over TikTok . “Far from the mass-produced concert tee or branded figurine, ‘subtle merch’ or your fave ‘coded’ items are deeply personal to fans, often homemade, and signal a fan’s knowledge or insider status within a given fandom.”

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February 5, 2023

Deadline: Douglas Foundation Archive Adds 10,000 Personal Items From Anne And Kirk, Goes Online Fully Digitized For Public Access

Deadline: Douglas Foundation Archive Adds 10,000 Personal Items From Anne And Kirk, Goes Online Fully Digitized For Public Access. “Now the Douglas Foundation, which was created by Kirk and Anne in 1964 when Michael was just 20, has just launched for the first time a high resolution on-line library of documents, photos and memorabilia digitized from Anne’s private archives of more than seventy years.”

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January 31, 2023

Motherboard: AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse

Motherboard: AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse. “ElevenLabs didn’t point to any particular instances of abuse, but Motherboard found 4chan members appear to have used the product to generate voices that sound like Joe Rogan, Ben Sharpio, and Emma Watson to spew racist and other sorts of material. ElevenLabs said it is exploring more safeguards around its technology.”

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January 15, 2023

Rolling Stone: Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?

Rolling Stone: Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?. “The outsider streaming site that just partnered up with Donald Trump Jr. is growing — but not in the way most people think.”

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January 13, 2023

New York Times: A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?

New York Times: A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?. “At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined.”

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January 12, 2023

PetaPixel: Photo Agency Sues Twitter for $228.9 Million Over Copyright Infringement

PetaPixel: Photo Agency Sues Twitter for $228.9 Million Over Copyright Infringement. “A photo agency has filed a $228.9m copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter after thousands of its photographs were uploaded by users of the social media site. Photo agency Backgrid and ten anonymous defendants have sued Twitter for allegedly failing to take down more than 1,500 photographs of celebrities owned by them and illegally posted to the platform by users.”

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January 10, 2023

Motherboard: Citizen App Doxes Billie Eilish’s Family Home to Tens of Thousands of People

Motherboard: Citizen App Doxes Billie Eilish’s Family Home to Tens of Thousands of People. “A push notification informed thousands of users of the crime reporting app Citizen Thursday night that police were responding to a 911 call in Los Angeles, an attempted burglary at a specific home in the city’s Highland Park neighborhood. At 9:41 p.m., the notification was updated to disclose that, according to police, the home belonged to pop star Billie Eilish. The notification—which included the home’s exact address—was sent to 178,000 people, according to the metrics that Citizen shows its users, and was viewed by nearly 78,000 people.”

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January 8, 2023

Mid-Day: Why people are keeping their deceased ones alive through social media accounts

Mid-Day: Why people are keeping their deceased ones alive through social media accounts. “The last post on Bollywood singer KK’s Instagram account was in October 2022, roughly five months after his sudden death in Kolkata last May. ‘After he passed, I spoke to Nakul [his son], about what we should do with his account,’ says Shubham Bhatt, KK’s manager, ‘and we decided to not deactivate it as it was a way to reach out to all his fans….’ … The singer’s posthumous Instagram account is now of the many belonging to renowned artistes across the globe, who have an active account after their death.

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December 31, 2022

PetaPixel: Photographer Reveals How To Spot Photoshopped Celebrity Images

PetaPixel: Photographer Reveals How To Spot Photoshopped Celebrity Images. “A photographer has become a TikTok star educating the internet on how to spot if a celebrity image is Photoshopped. Commercial photographer Caroline Ross is teaching ‘digital media literacy skills’ on TikTok — asking viewers if they can spot what is ‘fake’ in a celebrity’s image and revealing exactly how stars edit their photos.”

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December 24, 2022

Sportico: Tom Brady, Steph Curry Connection to FTX Highlighted in SEC Complaint

Sportico: Tom Brady, Steph Curry Connection to FTX Highlighted in SEC Complaint. “While spokespersons and endorsers are usually not liable for the unlawful acts of a sponsored company, these celebrities allegedly held larger roles, including as investors and customers, and arguably possessed more knowledge than an ordinary endorser and a higher duty of care. They, in turn, promoted FTX and in some instances urged their fans to take their advice and spend their money on FTX.”

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December 10, 2022

CoinDesk: Class Action Lawsuit Against FTX’s Celebrity Promoters and Sam Bankman-Fried Is Quietly Dropped

CoinDesk: Class Action Lawsuit Against FTX’s Celebrity Promoters and Sam Bankman-Fried Is Quietly Dropped. “A class action lawsuit filed against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and a host of paid celebrity promoters for the now-defunct crypto exchange has been dropped. On Thursday, lawyers for the suit’s lead plaintiff, Edwin Garrison, filed a voluntary notice of dismissal with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.”

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CNBC: SEC charges Tron founder Justin Sun, celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul with crypto violations

Deadline: Douglas Foundation Archive Adds 10,000 Personal Items From Anne And Kirk, Goes Online Fully Digitized For Public Access

Motherboard: AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse

New York Times: A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?

PetaPixel: Photographer Reveals How To Spot Photoshopped Celebrity Images

Sportico: Tom Brady, Steph Curry Connection to FTX Highlighted in SEC Complaint

CoinDesk: Class Action Lawsuit Against FTX’s Celebrity Promoters and Sam Bankman-Fried Is Quietly Dropped

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