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Mounir Lamouri / Chromium Blog:
Chrome 64, coming January 2018, will allow autoplay video only when media has no sound or the user shows interest in content — Users watch and listen to a lot of media, and autoplay can make it faster and easier to consume on the web. However, one of the most frequent user concerns …
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Brian Patrick Byrne / The Daily Beast:
Twitter says it has fixed a “bug” that allowed advertisers to target users based on racist and derogatory terms like the n-word and “Nazi” — Twitter's advertising platform tells prospective marketers it has 26.3 million users interested in the derogatory term …
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Google allowed advertisers to target racist and bigoted keywords, suggested more similar keywords, and allowed campaigns using those keywords to run — Google prompted BuzzFeed News to run ads targeted to keywords like “black people ruin neighborhoods,” then allowed the campaign to go live.
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Jim Brady / ESPN:
Jemele Hill's tweets broke ESPN guidelines, but all of ESPN's personalities are in a tough spot, urged to be active and engaging but not partisan or opinionated — As public editor, I've referenced ESPN's internal and external battles over politics and cultural coverage many times in the past 10 months.
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David Folkenflik / Analysis : NPR:
Lessons from Seth Rich story, 4 months after Fox retracted it with no explanation: investigations must be ironclad, don't lead witnesses, transparency matters — On Monday, lawyers for Fox News must submit court filings addressing how the network mishandled a story about the unsolved killing …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Meghan McCain, Fox News contributor and co-host of its afternoon program Outnumbered, is leaving the network
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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Alexa O'Brien, who posted evidence from Manning trial on YouTube, was banned from YouTube, had Gmail suspended; Google and YouTube fixed error, apologized — YouTube's latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start.
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Source: Facebook handed over data on Russian ad buys to special counsel Mueller under search warrant, including ad copies, targeting info, and account details — What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook — Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run …
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple says Safari's upcoming “Intelligent Tracking Prevention”, criticized by ad groups, will only block re-targeting, allow cookies from visited sites, more — Apple introduced a new technology to intelligently block browser cookies in Safari, which brought criticism from a number of advertising organizations.
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Andrew Zaleski / Wired:
Profile of VidAngel's Neal Harmon, whose streaming service is in a legal fight against studios over the right to filter offensive content from movies, TV shows — On June 9 of last year, a private investigator visited Neal Harmon in his Provo, Utah office with unwelcome news: Disney …
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Interview with Joy Reid, host of MSNBC's AM Joy, on moving from reporting to commentary, growth of her audience amid election, her family and education, more — Joy Reid has not figured out how to bend the rules of space and time, though regular viewers of MSNBC can be forgiven for thinking she somehow has done just that.
Anastasia Tsioulcas / NPR:
Online white supremacist forum Stormfront stops using Johnny Cash's version of “I Won't Back Down” on radio show after music labels send cease-and-desist order — Stormfront, the Internet-based white nationalist organization, has stopped using a Johnny Cash recording of Tom Petty …
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
CNN set to launch “Pacific”, a technology-focused vertical about changing media on the West Coast, led by Dylan Byers, with a newsletter, podcast, and events — CNN is set to launch a new technology-focused vertical about the changing media landscape on the West Coast.
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