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Facebook let ad buyers target users interested in algorithmically generated anti-Semitic topics like “Jew hater”, then removed some topics after being contacted — Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you.
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Facebook says it's temporarily removing self-reported ad targeting fields and will improve its processes following uproar over anti-Semitic targeting options — Facebook equips businesses with powerful ways to reach the right people with the right message. But there are restrictions on how audience targeting can be used on Facebook.
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Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
Sources: ESPN tried to keep Jemele Hill off air Wednesday after Twitter uproar, but cohost balked and fill-ins sought by producers refused; ESPN refutes claim — Her colleagues, including co-host Michael Smith, weren't having it. — At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening …
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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
Profile of Jemele Hill and her partner, Michael Smith, the co-hosts of ESPN's SC6, as Hill faces blowback for tweeting that Trump is a white supremacist
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Financial Times:
News execs say Google plans to revise rule that hurt rank of paywalled news sites that did not offer “first click free”; Google says it has nothing to announce — Google is expected to end a policy that allows users to breach newspaper paywalls to read articles for free …
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Comedy Central extends Trevor Noah's contract through 2022 and adds year-end specials for The Daily Show — The deal, which includes year-end specials featuring the host, will keep him on the Viacom-owned cable network through 2022. — Comedy Central is fully committing to Trevor Noah.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Survey: WAN-IFRA publishers get average of 7% of digital revenue via Facebook, with 25% getting no direct revenue; 69% say main goal of using FB is distribution — For years publishers have held onto the hope that all their investments in Facebook will, at some point, pay dividends when it comes to revenue.
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WAN-IFRA, Press Gazette, World News Publishing Focus … and @thomasfgodfrey
Chantal Fernandez / The Business of Fashion:
Editor-in-chief of Condé Nast's Glamour, Cindi Leive, announces she's stepping down after 16 years, becoming fourth longtime magazine editor to leave in 2 weeks — After 16 years leading the women's title at Condé Nast, Leive is resigning at the end of the year.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Leaked memo directs every federal government department or agency to hold one hour event on handling classified and unclassified information to prevent leaks — The top US national security official has directed government departments and agencies to warn employees across …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
New York Times reporter Mike Isaac is writing a book about Uber for W. W. Norton, due out in 2019 — Crazy ambition, betrayal, sex, deceit and naked power grabs all make for a page-turner. — The Uber story has crazy ambition, betrayal, sex, deceit, naked power grabs, and lots and lots and lots of money.
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Lucy Battersby / Sydney Morning Herald:
Lachlan Murdoch and partner Bruce Gordon make new bid for Australia's Ten Network, competing with CBS Corp. — Just hours after media reforms passed the Senate, Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon have lodged a fresh bid for Network Ten, increasing their offer for creditors of the troubled broadcaster from $35 million to $55 million.
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Marty Swant / Adweek:
IAB and other online ad trade groups ask Apple to rethink Safari's “Intelligent Tracking Prevention” cookie rules, expected to roll out this month on desktop — They argue it'll hurt user experience and campaign targeting — The biggest advertising organizations say Apple will …
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Ad Age, @carnage4life, AdExchanger, The Verge, Search Engine Land and @jason_kint, more at Techmeme »
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook says it will stop letting advertisers edit headlines on previews of news stories they use as ads, with exceptions for original publishers — Social network's change came after WSJ flagged examples of the practice — Facebook FB -1.17% on Thursday said it will stop allowing advertisers …
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