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Carla Herreria / HuffPost:
Vanity Fair faces backlash after reporter suggests in video that Hillary Clinton should take up knitting or “literally anything” instead of running again — The snarky video is part of a series, but the New Year's advice for the former presidential nominee caused the biggest stir.
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David Uberti / Splinter:
The faux scandal about Vanity Fair's Clinton video uses familiar social media bad-faith tactics that end up silencing individual journalists — A silly social video by Vanity Fair that suggested New Year's resolutions for Hillary Clinton drew harsh backlash from #Resistance Twitter myrmidons …
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
BuzzFeed has fired White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo after an internal investigation into allegations of inappropriate comments to a colleague — - BuzzFeed News' White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo has been let go following an investigation into inappropriate comments to a colleague.
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@cernovich, @maxwelltani, The Daily Caller, thecut, Splinter, The Wrap and Axios
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump continues to define the press as his prime adversary, using Twitter and a Fox News alliance to bury damaging stories and capitalize on recent media errors — Assessing Year One. — The guy who said, “Never quarrel with a man who buys his ink by the barrel,” didn't anticipate Donald Trump.
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Investigation finds publishers like Ozy drove millions of visitors to pages with ads from companies like JPMorgan, but the traffic turned out to be fraudulent — Fake traffic was sent to pages containing ads for JPMorgan Chase & Co., Visa, Amazon, KFC, and other big brands.
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@myurow, @craigsilverman, @robnorman, @mulvihill79, @shani_o, @adcontrarian, @kantrowitz, @jbenton, @bgrueskin, Boing Boing, @joshsternberg and @buzzfeednews
Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Source: Snap is developing a “Stories Everywhere” product, led by ex-News Corp. SVP Rahul Chopra, to push Stories outside Snapchat, possibly via a web player — Snapchat is developing a new product called “Stories Everywhere” with a goal of making Snapchat Stories available outside …
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The Hill, Axios, 9to5Mac, @jarroddicker, @shiraovide, Mashable, Variety, @donaldrichard and The Verge, more at Techmeme », Thanks:@jonsteinberg
Yair Rosenberg / New York Times:
Twitter blocked Impostor Buster, a bot that exposed trolls that posted racist messages impersonating Jews, other minorities, after trolls reported harassment — Like many Jewish journalists who reported on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, I spent the 2016 election being harassed …
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@yair_rosenberg, @yair_rosenberg, @impulse_random, @page88, @jesseargon, @damienmiller, @kneath, @nick_carnes_, @adamserwer, @jensimmons, @marvelle, @jasoncfry, @sumankguha, @triketora, @charlesornstein, @creationdaniel, @mikecosper, @reglevy, @ericajoy, @attackerman, @nocturnegames, @lewsos, @mrlnmarce, @gretchen_sf, @icpmoles, @clarajeffery and @stephenfloor, more at Techmeme »
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
McClatchy's Kansas City Star expanded staffing in its editorial department as others cut, with goal of driving readership and ensuring Star's community role — For editorial pages as well as other cornerstones of legacy metro newspapers, these are generally bad times, if not the worst of times.
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@kcurkyle, @dangillmor, @pottsmark, @mikelindblom, @pottsmark, @gregholmannl and @paperboyphil
Wall Street Journal:
As Facebook expands content moderation, contract workers describe the job of vetting porn, racism, and violence: high turnover, $13-$28/hour in Bay Area, more — Social-media giants hire legions of contractors to hunt for pornography, racism and violence in a torrent of posts and videos
Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Sources: Amazon plans to expand ad offerings in 2018, especially on search and video products, and increase off platform ad sales, with ad tech firms like Kargo — - It also has plans to increase advertising sales off its platform, including partnering with third-party technology companies to sell partnered TV and mobile ads.
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Analysis of code from the top 10K websites on Alexa finds that 30.5% employ anti-ad blocking measures, many of which are hidden from the sites' visitors — It's no secret that ad blockers are putting a dent in advertising-based business models on the web. This has produced a range of reactions …
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Report: subscription-based VOD in France hit €173M during the first nine months of 2017, nearly double that of the same period in 2016 — Bolstered by Netflix, subscription-based VOD in France hit €173 million ($205 million) during the first nine months of 2017 …
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