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Outside the Diddy Trial, a New Media Guard Takes Over

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As television cameras in the courtroom rattled the O.J. Simpson trial 30 years ago, influencers and livestreamers outside 500 Pearl St. in Manhattan during the rapper's federal trial point to a trend and conundrum for media.

Kid Cudi leaves after testifying last month during Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Logo text Every weekday around 3 p.m. local time at the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, a frenzy begins. Following hours of sensational testimony and evidence in the sex-trafficking and racketeering trial of hip-hop and fashion mogul Sean “ Diddy ” Combs - whose nosedive as a cultural icon after three decades of success seems to sink him further from those heights as new victims take the stand to implicate and denounce him - you'll spot the first tri

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