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Max Tani Semafor

Reporter · US

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Sep 14, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Max Tani Semafor

    Inside the US Treasury secretary’s tense relationship with financial media - Editor and Publisher (opens the original)

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    Last September, Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got a call from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The secretary had been a regular on Bloomberg’s TV programming and in its reporting for years, first as the founder of a hedge fund, and increasingly as he rose in Donald Trump’s circle to become the most powerful financial official in the now-president’s Cabinet. He was furious that Bloomberg reporters Anthony Cormier and Zachary Mider planned to report that Bessent had agreed

  2. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Max Tani Semafor

    Spotify’s new ‘skip’ button could end the podcast business as we know it - Editor and Publisher (opens the original)

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    Spotify is terrifying much of the podcast industry with a tiny little widget. Last week, the audio streaming giant tweaked its streaming interface, adding a feature that allows some users to more effectively skip through the parts of a podcast no one wants — notably ads, as well as promotions and filler content — as long as they aren’t sold directly by Spotify. Spotify cast the move as streamlining a feature that already exists, the 15-second skip button, which users in practice often use to byp

  3. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Max Tani Semafor

    Senate Democrat’s new bills would restrict AI-powered ads and paid influencers - Editor and Publisher (opens the original)

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    A flood of paid, unlabeled influencer marketing and AI-produced political ads has prompted a Senate Democrat to look at new restrictions on political advertising online. On Monday, California Sen. Adam Schiff plans to introduce two new bills that would attempt to illuminate who is paying influencers for political speech online and restrict AI-generated likenesses of politicians. The Promoting Authenticity with Influencer Disclaimers Act would amend the Federal Election Campaign Act to require la

  4. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Max Tani Semafor

    News Corp accuses search engine Brave of AI copyright infringement - Editor and Publisher (opens the original)

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    News Corp, the Murdoch family-owned parent company of The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing an AI company that describes itself as “the world’s most complete non-Big Tech search engine.” On Tuesday, News Corp announced that it is suing Brave AI, a privacy-focused search engine with an AI sidebar tool that plugs into large language models. In its lawsuit, News Corp alleged that Brave masks its web crawlers such that publishers cannot detect or block them, and delivers “summaries

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