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Rob Goldman / Facebook:
Facebook will start testing new ad transparency features in Canada in Nov., in US and elsewhere by summer, including an option to see all ads a page is running — When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads.
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Clio Chang / Splinter:
The open sexual harassment by The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier, literary editor for over 30 years, raises questions about accountability — On Tuesday night, The New York Times, Politico, and The Atlantic all published stories detailing numerous sexual harassment allegations against Leon Wieseltier …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Women of the campaign press corps say Mark Halperin's unsavory behavior was an “open secret”, dating from the mid-1990s — Dianna Goldberg was a young researcher at ABC News in 1994 when she asked a colleague, Mark Halperin, for some information about a story.
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The Daily Beast:
Penguin Press announces it is canceling plans to publish book Mark Halperin was co-authoring on 2016 election
Penguin Press announces it is canceling plans to publish book Mark Halperin was co-authoring on 2016 election
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New York Post, @oliverdarcy and Mediaite
Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO drops miniseries about the 2016 election based on Mark Halperin's planned book after sexual harassment claims
HBO drops miniseries about the 2016 election based on Mark Halperin's planned book after sexual harassment claims
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Five women accuse veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment while he was at ABC News; Halperin apologizes
Five women accuse veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment while he was at ABC News; Halperin apologizes
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
BuzzFeed's Product Labs offers marketing to creators of products or services in exchange for a cut of net sales, probably 10-20% — You make the ShamWow, they'll make the ad. — BuzzFeed makes money selling ads. It has started making money selling its own gadgets.
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@pkafka, @adariostrange and @myurow
Runa Sandvik / Times Open:
The New York Times launches experimental Tor Onion Service; logins and comments not yet available — Today we are announcing an experiment in secure communication, and launching an alternative way for people to access our site: we are making the nytimes.com website available as a Tor Onion Service.
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The Next Web, Fast Company, Nieman Lab, Boing Boing and BetaNews
Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
In Q3, Amazon reports 58% rise to $1.12B YoY in “other” revenue, composed mostly of ad sales; CFO says ads help site visitors make informed decisions — Calling all brand marketers: We're opening up a few more complimentary spots to join the Digiday Marketing Summit in the Bahamas in December.
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Publishers Weekly and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
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Business Wire:
Amazon reports Q3 revenue of $43.74B, up 34% YoY, vs $42.14B expected; net income of $256M, up from $252M YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours
Amazon reports Q3 revenue of $43.74B, up 34% YoY, vs $42.14B expected; net income of $256M, up from $252M YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours
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Anya Schiffrin / Columbia Journalism Review:
How European regulators are weighing control of misinformation and free speech, hampered by a lack of consensus, research, public data from Facebook and Google — This month, a new law against hate speech will go into effect in Germany, fining Facebook, Twitter, YouTube …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says people are watching YouTube on TVs for 100M hours/day, up 70% in the last year — YouTube viewing on actual TV sets is up 70 percent in the last year. — YouTube has been trying to position itself as a TV competitor for years.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Civil, the blockchain-based system to fund journalism, has raised $5M from ConsenSys and has attracted its first publication, news and politics site Popula — One of the most confusing efforts to fund journalism in recent memory is inching closer to reality.
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Civil, @liberationtech and @alltheshapes, more at Techmeme »
Alex Heath / Business Insider:
Twitter publishes stricter non-consensual nudity rules, says it will launch stricter enforcement on violent groups and hate symbols late November — Twitter said Friday that it would start imposing stricter rules on banning revenge porn and other tweets featuring non-consensual nudity.
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Twitter Help Center and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Shashidhar KJ / MediaNama:
Sources: HuffPost decides not to renew 3-year partnership with Times of India Group; HuffPost to relaunch in India — HuffPost and the Times of India Group have ended their partnership, multiple, reliable sources, including current and former employees, have confirmed to MediaNama.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
German advertising trade groups propose European chapter of the Coalition for Better Ads that would enable more local control of European digital media markets — Cracks are appearing in the Coalition for Better Ads as German members have started demanding more of a voice in the discussions.
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Business Insider and Business Insider