On Tuesday, Mediaite told Status’s Oliver Darcy it had suspended founding editor Colby Hall “pending further investigation” for “errors” in the sites’s One Sheet newsletter that Hall had insisted “were purely a result of sloppiness in how he aggregated and categorized information, not from the issue of AI.”
This was despite the fact that he had hours earlier told Semafor he used AI in a “limited way” to cull over a dozen media sites (including NewsBusters) each weekday.
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