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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: News Industry Struggles as Traffic from Big Tech Plummets

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The Best of the Week’s News:

  • News industry frets as clicks from Big Tech plummet. (NYT)
     
  • Elon Musk yanks the NYT’s verification badge as misinformation on Israel-Hamas war spreads unchecked. (WaPo/NYT)
     
  • New California law raises minimum wage for health care workers to $25 an hour. (CalMatters)
     
  • Skyrocketing housing costs force professionals to live in their cars. (NYT)
     
  • Meet Leonard Leo, the man behind the right wing overhaul of the judicial system. (ProPublica/WNYC
     
  • A $20,000 lectern and a girls’ trip to Paris spark an investigation into Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (40/29 News)