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Ex-Facebook news curators describe suppressing conservative news, being instructed to include non-trending stories, removing news about Facebook itself — Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential “trending” …
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Facebook says it has “rigorous guidelines” in place to protect neutrality and consistency of its Trending Topics section, in response to Gizmodo report — Facebook has responded to allegations in a Gizmodo report that its contract news curators actively censored stories …
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@o_ema, Business Insider, @ellenhuet, @gaberivera, Social Media Collective and The Daily Caller


Sources: To combat ad-blockers, Google said to be exploring an ‘acceptable’ ads policy — Google is reportedly jumping deeper into the ad blocking issue by exploring an acceptable ads policy, publisher and industry sources say. — Google, together with Facebook, controlled 64 percent of the digital ad market last year.
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Till Faida, CEO of Eyeo, maker of AdBlock Plus, says it's close to 1B downloads and is installed on over 100M active devices — Ad blocking software's usage on the web, and now mobile, has forced the media and publishing industry to look to new revenue models.
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VentureBeat, Adblock Plus and …, ZDNet and Fast Company


Spotify expands its video offerings, unveils slate of 12 original series which will be available to both free and paid users in US, UK, Germany, and Sweden — Russell Simmons, Tim Robbins to produce programs for Spotify — Videos will help Spotify compete with YouTube, Apple
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Fast Company, MacRumors, Tubefilter, GeekWire, Quartz, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Fortune, RAIN News, @mattbraga, AOL, The Verge, @thestalwart, @aaronrutkoff and iMore


Artist manager Irving Azoff writes open letter to YouTube, criticising Google for not letting artists opt out of it, says company hides behind safe harbor law — “You have built a business that works really well for you and for Google, but it doesn't work well for artists," says the legendary artists' manager.
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Fast Company, RAIN News, Fortune, @terrencehart, @alec_empire, The Wrap, @pakman and hypebot


Judge dismisses mental competency lawsuit brought against Viacom's controlling shareholder, Sumner Redstone, by ex-girlfriend — A Los Angeles judge has dismissed a salacious lawsuit that challenged the mental competence of Sumner Redstone and provided a rare window into the rivalries …
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Google News gets new Local Source tag to highlight local coverage of major news stories — Google has today announced plans to shine a light on local news reporting with the introduction of a new Local Source tag in Google News. — The Internet giant has long appended articles in Google News …
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Google News Blog, @walldo, Search Engine Land, Mashable and Engadget


Fusion partners with The Young Turks to launch a weekly, one hour show this fall covering election — Road trip! — Millennial-focused cable channel Fusion announced today it's launching a weekly, one-hour show this fall in tandem with online news series The Young Turks, founded by former MSNBC and Current TV host Cenk Uygur.
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The Wrap, FishbowlDC and Variety


Journalist Julia Ioffe files police complaint following anti-semitic abuse from Trump supporters, alleged offense listed as threat to kidnap or injure a person — Julia Ioffe has filed a report with the D.C. police department over the anti-Semitic threats that she received …
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FishbowlDC and AOL


A year in at Vox, Recode looks at its future: Video, distributed content, more podcasts, and no / — “I have nothing but not-nice things to say about people,” said Kara Swisher. “But Jim Bankoff has been a fantastic leader.” — It's been a year since Vox Media, the company helmed by CEO Bankoff …
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FishbowlNY, Re/code, Politico, @shansquared, @alexweprin, @jeremymbarr and Media Wire Daily


Q&A with Investopedia Vice President Caleb Silver on emphasizing news, using data to determine coverage, and where traffic comes from — Caleb Silver is vice president of content at Investopedia.com with 20 years of experience in broadcast news, digital video programming, documentaries, live events and branded content.