Published on March 20, 2025
copyrights, In The News, Journalism, social media
MORE: Meta (Facebook’s parent company) accused of torrenting 82 terabytes of authors’ pirated books to create its AI system; Director might go to jail after accused of scamming Netflix out of millions; Retractions and walkouts plague science journals; Whoopi Goldberg thinks crowdfunding can buy a newspaper…that isn’t for sale?; Voice of America to be closed, and Disney scales back premiere of controversial live action ‘Snow White.’ Did star’s comments play a role in that?
Published on March 13, 2025
author scams, In The News, Journalism, legal, libel, social media, writing scams
MORE: Ex-Facebook employee has published a tell-all book about the company; Books that were stolen by Nazis have been returned to their rightful owners; Arrest of Columbia anti-Israel activist not about free speech; Writer who wanted to ‘ram a knife down Jews’ throats’ acquitted by Belgian court; Guardian Media Group forced to apology and pay damaged for libel; Couple sues hotel after allegations made in Facebook group post; and ABC News is slashing more jobs.
Published on March 1, 2025
Defamation, Journalism, legal, libel
MORE: Reporter who hid Biden’s dementia now wants to sell books he wrote about Biden’s dementia; Why nobody trusts mainstream media anymore; Kim Kardashian sued for ID’ing a NY man as a Texas death row inmate; State drops libel lawsuit against newspaper that was forced to remove editorial criticizing local officials; Pink Floyd cofounder found guilty of defamation; and Meghan Markle changes name of clothing line to a name owned by another clothing line.
Published on February 3, 2025
Censorship, In The News, Journalism, social media
MORE: Virginia legislature supports colleges and universities engaging with terrorist groups; Books written by humans are getting their own certification; Teaches sues after getting fired for being opposed to book bans in schools; CNN’s Alex Marquardt doesn’t lose job after costing the company millions for defamation; and how one blogger created the the largest single-day stock drop in history.
Published on January 23, 2025
Censorship, In The News, Journalism
MORE: ESPN apologizes for not airing National Anthem at the Sugar Bowl after terror attack in New Orleans; Politico Editor-in-Chief changes his tune; First Amendment vs. Internet Censorship; and Trump orders the government not to infringe on American’s speech
Published on January 2, 2025
Defamation, Journalism, legal, libel
Think you can write/say anything you want about a public figure? THINK AGAIN!
Published on December 19, 2024
Censorship, In The News, Journalism, legal, libel
MORE: Man spared from paying $4500 library fine; School board meeting attendees applaud after citizen challenges trans book in classrooms; One AI program is taking down phone scammers!; Would YOU trust AI to be your therapist?; Open AI whistleblower found dead from “suicide”; Washington Post top editor prospects flee; and Join millions for a Christmas Revival!
Published on December 6, 2024
Censorship, copyrights, Journalism, legal, Print on demand, self-publishing, traditional publishing
MORE: Librarians forced to deal with violence on the job; WARNING about Edioak and House of Pages; Massive layoffs at CNN; Books aren’t the only artistic things being forged!; Book Guard targets authors; HarperCollins is selling its authors’ manuscripts to an AI company; and Start-up Spines mocked for charging authors $5K for AI editing!!
Published on November 17, 2024
author scams, complaints, Complaints about specific publishers, Journalism, legal, writing scams
Since 1987, WritersWeekly.com has provided freelance job listings, paying markets, industry news, articles focused on how to make more money writing, thousands of warnings about bad actors in the writing and publishing communities, and so much more. WritersWeekly has, and always will be, completely free. And, WritersWeekly has never accepted paid advertisements. WritersWeekly has received […]
Published on November 17, 2024
author scams, complaints, Complaints about specific publishers, Journalism, legal, writing scams
Here is one example of how Facebook refused to remove the paid advertisement from one of the scammers…
