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Barbra Streisand joined the family of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday in condemning the choice of a leadership award previously named after the late Supreme Court justice going to Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch, among others. Streisand, who accepted the honor formerly known as the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award last year, wrote on Instagram she was “proud” to have done so “in memory of one of the most esteemed public figures in American history.” The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation,…

Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and three other individuals will no longer receive Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s namesake leadership award, presenting organization Opperman Foundation announced late Monday. The awards’ cancellation came hours after singer and former RBG award recipient Barbra Streisand slammed the decision to honor Musk and Murdoch, and several days after the late justice’s daughter spoke out against the award as well. “The last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of RBG,”…

Elon Musk and Rubert Murdoch are earning a leadership award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barbra Streisand and the family of the late justice are not happy about it. On Monday, the entertainment icon — who was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award last year — joined the family of Ginsburg in denouncing the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation for its recent choice of honorees. In 2019, Ginsburg helped establish the award with the Opperman Foundation to celebrate “women who exemplify human…

The media industry occupied center stage in the news cycle in 2023, with high-profile ousters, massive legal settlements, social media and technology arms races, and economic headwinds impacting an already vulnerable advertising environment. And while 2023 will likely be best remembered as the year Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X and ushered in controversy, it also featured a wave of media layoffs, cable news drama and more newsroom experiments with artificial intelligence to create content. Read on for our…

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It’s hard to make the activities of Fox News and its Dominion Voting fiasco seem tame by comparison but another one of Rupert Murdoch’s media companies appears to have done it. How about a news operation that gets its scoops by hacking members of the royal family? Teenage Cybercrime Gang LAPSUS$ Strikes AgainTo explain, Prince Harry revealed this week that his brother, Prince William, received a pretty nice settlement after suing a number of British tabloids for hacking his cell phone back in the early aughts. Harry is…

Fox News’s $787.5 million settlement agreement with Dominion Voting Systems is a hefty chunk of change. It’s one of the largest defamation payout ever for a defamation suit representing more than half of its total profit from last year, though the right-wing media company will likely sustain the blow. But the payout itself has led to a massive wave of speculation and conjecture. Was Fox going along with its previous settlement goal, or was it more concerned about what would come out in court?NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter |…

Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News have reached a settlement in the companies’ two-year-long defamation dispute. The agreement was announced by the case’s presiding judge in court on Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple reports—coming just hours after jury selection was completed. The decision by both parties to settle moves what could’ve been a landmark case for media and misinformation out of the courtroom, and thus out of the public eye.How Can You Be a Steward of Good Tech in 2023? | Gizmodo InterviewThe…

WILMINGTON, Del. — Fox Corp. and its cable networks agreed Tuesday to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims that Dominion's machines swayed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.The settlement, which came after a 12-member jury had been seated in the case in Delaware Superior Court, averted a weekslong trial that could have seen top Fox TV hosts and network boss Rupert Murdoch publicly testify.The deal, which will cost Fox nearly half of the $1.6 billion…