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Good morning! Here's the latest on Meta, Nikki Glaser, MSNBC, Bill Simmons, Pokémon Go, "The Last of Us," and more. But first...

'Who are you with?'

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Four times in the past week, President Trump has interrupted a press pool Q&A to ask, "Who are you with?"

On one occasion it was because he loved a Breitbart correspondent's puffy queries. The other three times, he bristled at more serious questions from more serious outlets.

The inquiry takes on a different meaning now that the White House, and not the independent White House Correspondents' Association, is deciding who is in the press pool on any given day. Trump has the ability to cut off news outlets that cross him. That's why some White House correspondents have been paying attention to Trump taking roll call.

On condition of anonymity, several correspondents described it as a worrisome development because it might cause people to think twice before asking certain questions. One likened it to the president "taking names for his naughty or nice list." (The matter also came up at the association's town hall meeting last night.)

The Factba.se database shows that Trump asked "who are you with" every so often during his first term, but is doing it much more often this time around. In early February, he asked for S.V. Dáte's affiliation when the HuffPost reporter asked him, "the Vice President suggested that if the Supreme Court rules in a way that you don't like, they can just enforce it by themselves. Do you agree with that?" HuffPost was booted from its pool assignment later in the month.

Over the weekend when Trump gaggled on Air Force One, Washington Post reporter Michael Birnbaum asked him, "Is Putin disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine when you're trying to make peace there?" Trump seemed confused by the question. He asked "who are you with," and when Birnbaum named the Post, Trump said "you've lost a lot of credibility" and skipped the question.

And on Wednesday, when Voice of America correspondent Patsy Widakuswara asked Irish prime minister Micheál Martin "what about the president's plan to expel Palestinians out of Gaza? Are you discussing that with him?" Trump jumped in and said "nobody's expelling any Palestinians. I don't know -- who are you with?"

"I'm with Voice of America, sir," she said.

"No wonder," Trump said, waving his hand to the ground dismissively and repeating "Voice of America," the government-funded broadcaster.

This week happens to be Widakuswara's last as VOA's White House bureau chief. She was recently (and involuntarily) reassigned to a new role, stoking speculation inside the news outlet that she was sidelined to avoid Trump's retribution.

No joking matter

During that same Q&A with Trump and the Irish prime minister, Real America's Voice representative Brian Glenn (also known as Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend) asked Martin "why in the world would you let Rosie O'Donnell move to Ireland?"

Trump laughed and said he liked the question but Martin seemed confused. Glenn played it off as a joke – underscoring that it was an utter waste of time and access. But it's likely to keep happening because the White House wants slavishly pro-Trump personalities in the room for presidential photo ops, distorting the entire press corps dynamic.

 >> I'm reminded of this great Peter Baker line from last week: "You're seeing basically inherently political organizations masquerading as news organizations, calling themselves news organizations, and injecting themselves into our pool. And for the viewer at home watching this, it's confusing. They don't know the difference between Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend and the Washington Post."

Kelly's kicker

When NBC's Kelly O'Donnell pressed Trump over his "inconsistency" about tariffs, Trump snapped back, "There is no inconsistency. Only with NBC, which is one of the worst networks on television, by the way." O'Donnell responded: "It was your home for a long time."

Meta challenges author in arbitration

Meta is "striking back against a former employee whose explosive book just came out — and in a very public way I've never really seen them go after someone," the NYT's Mike Isaac observed last night.

As CNN's Clare Duffy reported here, Meta filed an arbitration demand against author Sarah Wynn-Williams, stating that the claims in "Careless People" violate a non-disparagement agreement she signed when she left the company. On Wednesday an emergency arbitrator said she must stop promoting the book until the arbitration is finished.

"Careless People" is still for sale because the publisher is not enjoined by the order. (The book is doing well, and may be helped by the news of this legal tussle. When I checked last night, it was #10 on Amazon's new releases list. This morning, it is #3.) Still, this is a blow to Wynn-Williams' book tour plans...

THIS JUST IN

How Meta will roll out Notes

This morning Meta said that the Community Notes system it announced back in January will begin to roll out next Tuesday. Some key details from the company's blog post: The beta test will take a while. "Initially we will use X's open source algorithm as the basis of our rating system." Once it's working well, Notes will roll out in the United States. Meta wants to expand it around the world, "but we won’t be doing that immediately."

 >> A notable note about Notes: "Fact checked posts often had their distribution across our platforms reduced. That won't be the case with posts that have notes applied to them. Notes will provide extra context, but they won't impact who can see the content or how widely it can be shared." This means Meta will no longer try to reduce the reach of a lie, no matter how shameful or harmful.

 >> In other Meta news, Mark Zuckerberg was back at the White House yesterday.

NEW THIS MORNING

The MSNBC rebuild

The rebuild of MSNBC is well underway ahead of Comcast's "SpinCo" restructuring. In a cheerful new story this morning about what the channel will be once it splits up with NBC News, NYMag's Charlotte Klein says "what MSNBC is doing is a bright spot for the news industry right now."

 >> The details: "The network will be hiring more than 100 journalists — from field producers to correspondents to photographers — to work across the operation, which will include a bureau in Washington (for which it’s looking for a bureau chief) and a newsroom in New York." Read on...

Univision airs 'fearmongering' deportation ad

The Bulwark’s Adrian Carrasquillo highlights frustration at Univision over the network's willingness to air Homeland Security ads "warning immigrants that the government will find and deport them." (Immigrant-rights groups view the ads "as a blunt attempt at fearmongering on the taxpayer dime.")

One of Carrasquillo's sources pointed up, to Univision's owner, Televisa, whose co-CEOs have touted a "longstanding friendship with President Trump." The source remarked, "I've only known journalism in the States, I haven't done journalism in Mexico — they take care of whoever is in political power in Mexico — so I just feel that is trickling down in the States."

Political media notes and quotes

 >> This morning's new CNN poll is full of fascinating #'s about the economy about the expected impacts cuts to federal programs. (CNN)

 >> "DOGE makes its latest errors harder to find:" Musk's "group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency," but the NYT "was still able to detect another batch of mistakes." (NYT)

 >> Check out this Politico piece about "who's in Elon's ear — and DMs." (Politico)

 >> The FCC is asking the public to help it cut "unnecessary regulatory burdens." (The Hill)

 >> "As markets whipsaw, conservative media shrugs," Ken Bensinger writes. (NYT)

 >> Fallout from showing the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land:" Miami Beach's mayor "moves to end O Cinema lease after screening of Israeli-Palestinian film." (Miami Herald)