The Brief – Tuesday 16 December – More scams for Meta, BBC funding future, TikTok sale set to be pushed back

🙈 19% of the $18bn Meta earned from Chinese advertisers last year derived from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content, according to internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters. (Reuters)

📺 The BBC funding review could potentially include plans to supplement the licence fee with advertising, subscriptions and other commercial revenues. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy will unveil proposals later this week. (The Times)

⌛ The US government appears poised to extend the ban-or-sale deadline for TikTok for the fifth time on Tuesday. Legal experts have said the Trump administration does not have legal authority to extend the ban, which was passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. (BBC)

🤖 The Washington Post began releasing AI-generated podcasts even after internal tests found that more than two-thirds of scripts generated by the feature failed a metric to determine whether they met the publisher’s standards. The AI podcasts included errors and introduced bias, but the release moved forward anyway, with the product team saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”. (Semafor)