Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia on Sunday unveiled plans for the United Football League, the new spring pro football league born from the merger of the XFL and USFL.
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The CEO of the parent company of Sports Illustrated was ousted on Monday.
The firing followed a scandal over the publication’s use of AI-generated stories from fake authors, although it was not immediately clear if that was related to the shakeup.
Ross Levinsohn, CEO of The Arena Group, was terminated and Manoj Bhargava was named interim chief executive officer, the company said. No other information was provided, other than that the board met “and took actions to improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company.”
Last week, the company fired operations president and COO Andrew Kraft, media president Rob Barrett and corporate counsel Julie Fenster.
Levinsohn had been in his role since 2020. He had previously been a top executive at Yahoo, Fox Interactive and Tribune Publishing.
A recent piece on the web site Futurism alleged that stories on the Sports Illustrated web site “were churned out using AI,” and that the contributor profiles on many of them were also AI-generated, right down to the author photos, which Futurism’s researchers claim they found on sites selling AI-generated images.
The site also alleges it found similar content on The Street.com, which Arena Group bought from co-founder Jim Cramer in 2019. There was also a controversy earlier this year when Men’s Journal, another Arena Group publication, published an Ai-generated medical article reportedly riddled with “inaccuracies and falsehoods.”
The union representing editorial staff said that it was “horrified” by the report.
A spokesperson the The Arena Group said that “the articles in question were product reviews and were licensed content from an external, third-party company, AdVon Commerce. A number of AdVon’s e-commerce articles ran on
Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia on Sunday unveiled plans for the United Football League, the new spring pro football league born from the merger of the XFL and USFL.
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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Cheating pays — for Bart and Homer, that is. This Sunday’s episode of “The Simpsons” takes on sports cheating, college admissions scandals (like “Varsity Blues”) and more, as father and son become kings of the blue-collar sports circuit. But in “Do the Wrong Thing,” Marge soon suspects that there’s something dishonest going on.
If you have been thinking about getting a new TV and maybe a new sports package this Christmas or in the New Year, Sky might just be the best option for you. We all know that December can be an expensive time, but Sky is offering six months of Sky Sports for free, as well as a shiny new 4K TV when you buy one of its new Sky Glass bundles.
Jaden Thompson Byron Allen’s media company Entertainment Studios, also known as Allen Media Group (AMG), is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, a major milestone for one of the most visible Black-owned media companies in the U.S. AMG has championed several diversity-related initiatives over the years, including the recent launch of the streaming service HBCU Go.
Rick Ross has shared his intentions to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in “early 2024”.The rapper first announced on the Full Send podcast that he had ambitions to scale the mountain in Tanzania in 2022. He then promised he would spend 2023 getting in shape for the challenge.Now, in an Instagram story, he has confirmed he will climb the mountain next year: “It’s official. Early 2024, it’s going down.” Ross, who shared a video of him running and training for next year’s ascent, said he was “getting in the best shape of our lives [for this].
It’s not looking so hot for Prince Harry in court…
failed court challenge in a libel lawsuit.The Duke of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers Ltd. over an article that said Harry tried to hide his efforts to retain publicly funded protection in the UK after leaving his role as a working member of the royal family.Justice Matthew Nicklin ruled Friday in the High Court in London that the publisher has a “real prospect” of showing that statements issued on Harry’s behalf were misleading and that the February 2022 article reflected an “honest opinion” and wasn’t libelous.“The defendant may well submit that this was a masterclass in the art of ‘spinning,’” Nicklin wrote, in refusing to strike the honest opinion defense.Harry has claimed the article was “fundamentally inaccurate” and the newspaper defamed him when it suggested he lied in his initial public statements over efforts to challenge the government’s decision to strip him of his security detail after he and his family moved to the US in 2020.Harry, 39, the younger son of King Charles III, also has a lawsuit pending against the government’s decision to protect him on a case-by-case basis when he visits Britain.
UPDATED, 5:30 PM: After a three-year legal battle, a California jury today found that Google violated antitrust laws when it removed Fortnite maker Epic Games and other publishers from its app store. The jurors in San Francisco found in favor of Epic on all of the 11 claims.
Prince Harry has been ordered to pay The Mail on Sunday‘s legal costs of nearly £50,000 ($62,800) after trying to have part of the UK tabloid paper’s libel defense thrown out.
O’Neal passed away on December 8 at the age of 82.His son, 56-year-old actor Patrick O’Neal, confirmed the news on his Instagram account Friday.“My dad passed away peacefully today,” he wrote. “As a human being, my father was as generous as they come. And the funniest person in any room.
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Global Content Distribution has acquired worldwide rights to movie Depravity (previously known as Sic), the directorial debut of The Fighter and The Finest Hours screenwriter Paul Tamasy who also wrote the script.
libel case against the Mail on Sunday newspaper over an article about his security arrangements must go to trial, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Friday, rejecting the royal’s attempts to have the publisher’s defense thrown out.Harry, King Charles’ younger son, sued publisher Associated Newspapers last year over an article that stated he had tried to keep secret a separate legal fight with the British government over his publicly funded police protection, which was withdrawn after he stepped back from royal duties in 2020.The report also accused Harry of attempting to mislead the public about his willingness to pay for the policing himself.Harry applied to have the newspaper group’s defense thrown out, but Judge Matthew Nicklin said in a written ruling that it had a real prospect of success.The judge added in a summary of his ruling: “The Duke of Sussex’s claim will now go through its remaining pre-trial phases and, unless resolved in some other way, to a trial at some point in 2024.”
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