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Jack Dorsey / @jack:
Jack Dorsey responds to #RIPTwitter, links Twitter's identity with real-time, doesn't deny an algorithmic feed but says there was no plan to launch next week — Hello Twitter! Regarding #RIPTwitter: I want you all to know we're always listening. We never planned to reorder timelines next week.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter's algorithmic timeline is like expanded version of “while you were away” feature, according to users testing it; opt-out is available — Here's how Twitter's new algorithmic timeline is going to work — Twitter went into an uproar Friday after a BuzzFeed report …
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Twitter says it has suspended 125K accounts for promoting or threatening terrorist acts since mid-2015 — Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists' Tweets — For years, Twitter has positioned itself as a “global town square” that is open to discourse from all.
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Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
LinkedIn will stop selling ads on other sites, an offering launched after its $175M purchase of Bizo in 2014 — LinkedIn Shuts Down Its Ad Network 12 Months After It Opened — Overall Ad Business Only Accounted for 21% of Q4 2015 Revenue — Sponsored Webcast
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
How The New York Times is experimenting with bots to let readers ask elections questions from Slack, and how it may answer with automation — The New York Times' new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers' questions straight to the newsroom — Want more election coverage right in your company's Slack?
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@tealtan, @phillipadsmith, @niemanlab, @losowsky and New York Times
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
PayPal stops taking payments for UnoTelly VPN and SmartDNS service, saying service can be used to bypass copyright law — PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services — PayPal is widely known for their aggressive stance towards BitTorrent sites, Usenet providers and file-hosting services …
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CBC News, @dangillmor, Motherboard and Plagiarism Today
Washington Post:
Inside Peyton Manning's secret investigation into Al Jazeera documentary — BROWNSBURG, Ind. — Five days before a documentary alleged that quarterback Peyton Manning and other star athletes had used performance-enhancing drugs, two men hired by Manning's lawyers visited the parents of the documentary's key witness.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times is unearthing unpublished photos from its archives for Black History Month — In this black and white photo taken by a New York Times staff photographer, two unidentified second graders at Princeton's Nassau Street Elementary School stand in front of a classroom blackboard.
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Verizon updates go90 video app to exempt it from data caps for customers not on prepaid plan — Verizon just blatantly betrayed net neutrality by excluding its video app from data caps — The FCC's net neutrality rules, passed last year, explicitly ban internet providers from a number …
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TechCrunch, @digiphile, DSLreports, @rafat, @recode, @zpower, Re/code, Engadget, The Next Web, @backlon, PR Newswire and Multichannel News
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The Conversation expands across the U.S., freshly funded by universities and foundations — January was a good month for The Conversation U.S. (TCUS), the American edition of the nonprofit site first launched in Australia as a platform seeking to offer in-depth, reliable takes on the news cycle.
Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
What a $5 million Super Bowl ad can buy you in digital media (tl;dr: a lot) — Every year, marketing pundit-types ask themselves the question: “Is the Super Bowl worth it?” And when the price tag is $5 million for 30-seconds of airtime, it's a pretty good question — especially …
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Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company:
Virtual reality startup Wevr raises $25M, plans to launch cross-platform VR content network, Transport — Leading VR Company Building Cross-Platform Content Network — With at least five different virtual reality platforms available to consumers this year, there is the potential that content …
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VatorNews, TechCrunch, socalTECH.com, Variety and Fortune
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Sources: New editor to be installed at Las Vegas Review-Journal as early as Friday, stories involving owner Adelson are being reviewed, changed, or killed daily — Sheldon Adelson tightens grip on Review-Journal — After a brief spell of normalcy seemed to return to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, all bets are now off.
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