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Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
Twitter DMs show Wikileaks asked Trump Jr. to help share its work, support Assange as ambassador; Trump Jr. appeared to act on some requests during '16 campaign — Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year's presidential election …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg's new Twitter network will launch Dec 18; sources say it has already secured eight-figures in ad revenue for its first year — Bloomberg's new Twitter network will launch on Dec. 18 with six founding partners: Goldman Sachs, Infiniti, TD Ameritrade, CA Technologies, AT&T and CME Group — and more are in the works.
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Matt Pressberg / The Wrap:
A&E, Scripps, Discovery, AMC, and Viacom invest $25M in Philo, a streaming service offering programming from 35+ cable TV channels for $16 a month — Algorithms, like Netflix's recommendation engine, have been the secret sauce for streaming television, turning viewers on to shows they never knew they liked.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sources: New LA Times editor told journalists told not to retweet praise of investigative series on Disney, elevating tension within the newsroom — A dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Walt Disney Company has ignited a battle between the paper's employees and its new top management.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube partners with Ticketmaster to sell concert tickets on artists' video pages, starting from today in the US — YouTube today announced a partnership with Ticketmaster that will see the Google-owned video network connecting fans with concert tickets and tour information directly on artists' YouTube video pages.
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Freedom House:
Report: governments in 30 countries manipulated social media to counter critics, drive specific agendas, more; elections in 18 countries may have been affected — Key Findings Online manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States.
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Chavie Lieber / Racked:
Inside the swag retail economy, where magazine staffers sell promotional items to supplement income, and how companies lack policies regarding the practice — How editors turn their gifts into cash. — PHOTOGRAPHY BY TED & CHELSEA CAVANAUGH — PIN — A few months ago …
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Paresh Dave / Reuters:
YouTube confirms it has updated its policy on extremist content, broadening it to include videos that do not depict violence or preach hate — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google in the last few months has begun removing from YouTube extremist videos that do not depict violence or preach hate …
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Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Amazon says it has “no plans to create a free, ad-supported version of Prime Video” following AdAge report — An alternate to the $99 subscription — Update November 14th, 11:06AM ET: This article was updated to include a statement from Amazon denying the claims.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fullscreen Media says it will shut down its SVOD service January 2018, will lay off about 25 employees — Fullscreen Media will pull the plug on its subscription-video service introduced less than two years ago, and is laying off about 25 employees with the shutdown.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Interview with The New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson on regulating Facebook, global initiatives and ambitions, and building things beyond news — “I think over the next five years, it's possible the competitive landscape will actually get in some ways more attractive for The New York Times …
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber calls on “deeply flawed” social media networks to “drop the pretence” they are not media companies — Financial Times editor Lionel Barber has said social media networks are “deeply flawed news outlets” as he called on them to …
Joseph Otterson / Variety:
‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Moving Forward at Amazon With Multi-Season Production Commitment — A “Lord of the Rings” TV series is moving forward at Amazon with the streaming service giving the series a multi-season production commitment, Amazon announced Monday.
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