Media News Daily: Top Stories for 08/12/2025
This page hosts daily news stories about the media, social media, and the journalism industry. Get the latest Hirings and Firings, Media Transactions, Controversies, and more. Yomiuri Shimbun Sues Perplexity for Copyright Violations Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, has filed a landmark lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, accusing it ofContinue Reading
MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 08/12/2025
Home Fact Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check Fact Check Search Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, weContinue Reading
HUNTR/X Becomes First Girl Group in 24 Years to Top Billboard Hot 100
HUNTR/X’s “Golden” has climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, ending a 24-year gap since a girl group last led the chart. The historic moment follows Destiny’s Child’s 2001 hit “Bootylicious,” cementing the fictional act’s place in pop history. The track, performed by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REIContinue Reading
The (Sort of) Win Over Google and Meta That The Traitor and Biden Agree On
On July 31, a federal court of appeals upheld Epic Games’s antitrust win over Google for monopolizing the distribution of Android apps and payment processing within apps like Fortnite. This is just the latest legal triumph against Big Tech corporations. In the past year, the U.S. government scored two majorContinue Reading
CDC union condemns vaccine misinformation after shooter blamed COVID vaccine for depression
A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him suicidal has been identified as the shooter who fired shots at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer, Read MoreContinue Reading
Will The Traitor deploy National Guard troops in other cities? | Morning in America
President Traitor 47 named New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Oakland as potential places to expand his most recent crime crackdown, but he gave no details about how or when that could happen. Brett Samuels, a White House reporter for NewsNation partner The Hill, joins “Morning in America” toContinue Reading
What to know about The Traitor’s DC takeover | Morning in America
The federal government currently controls police in Washington, D.C., and it will likely be that way for at least a month as The Traitor deploys National Guard troops to combat crime in the nation’s capital. NewsNation’s Tom Dempsey has the latest on the takeover, which D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser calledContinue Reading
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? | Podcast: The Joy of Why
One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of multicellularity. In this episode, Will Ratcliff discusses how his snowflake yeast models provide insight into what drove the transition from single-celled to multicellular organisms. S04E01 Will Ratcliff at Georgia Tech has been conductingContinue Reading
Washington DC protests erupt after The Traitor seizes control of police and deploys troops
Protesters took to the streets after Traitor 47 said he was deploying national guard troops to Washington DC and temporarily taking over the city’s police department. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub The US president claimed it was necessary because ‘our capital city has been overtaken by violentContinue Reading
Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information
“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, We can split the atom but not distinguish truth. Our information is failing us ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thZUMaGEE-8&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD Yuval Noah Harari sees one glaring problem atContinue Reading
Why is India so scared of my book on Kashmir that it has banned it?
My work documents what India wants hidden: Kashmir’s reality after Article 370., On August 5, 2019, the Indian government stripped the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state of its special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, split it into two entities and demoted the two units to Union TerritoriesContinue Reading
Italian athlete dies at World Games in China
Mattia Debertolis discovered unconscious during an orienteering event in Chengdu on August 8 and died four days later., Mattia Debertolis discovered unconscious during an orienteering event in Chengdu on August 8 and died four days later. Italian orienteering athlete Mattia Debertolis died on Tuesday after being found unresponsive during competitionContinue Reading
FACT CHECK: Vice Ganda not declared persona non grata in Davao City
Claim: Comedian and television host Vice Ganda is set to be declared persona non grata or an “unwelcome person” in Davao City following a comedy stint that mocked former president Rodrigo Duterte. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A supposed resolution letter from the Davao City council has been circulatingContinue Reading