Swift’s Deepfake Complexifier, K Street Freeze-Out, Netflix After Stuber

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon bundle of Puck’s freshest reporting.

First up today, Peter Hamby presents an insider’s power ranking of Trump’s V.P. hopefuls: the dark horses and doormats, the Palin equation, and the media chatter surrounding it all.

Plus, below the fold: Lauren Sherman untangles the success of fashion’s most unassailable brand. Eriq Gardner wonders whether the recent Taylor Swift drama could puncture Silicon Valley’s favorite legal heat shield. On The Town, Matt Belloni rings up Lucas Shaw to discuss film chief Scott Stuber’s Netflix exit and what it means for the streamer’s movie arm. And on a rollicking episode of The Powers That Be, Abby Livingston joins Peter Hamby to explain the K Street freeze-out that’s keeping retiring congresspeople up at night.

PETER HAMBY

The media chatter around Trump’s vice presidential search is rightly derided as an overhyped and silly guessing game—the product of bored reporters and TV people paying way too much attention to a closely held decision that probably won’t matter anyway. But here we go…

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ERIQ GARDNER

The White House is calling for new laws to prevent the scourge of A.I. pornography. But poking holes in Section 230, the legal heat shield surrounding Silicon Valley, may be harder than it seems. And Hollywood may want a word, too…

MATTHEW BELLONI

Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss film chief Scott Stuber’s exit from Netflix and what it means for the streamer’s movie arm, Netflix’s foray into live programming with a $5 billion deal for WWE’s ‘Raw,’ and its latest earnings report, which saw a big boost in subscriber growth.