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Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
Twitter has suspended several accounts, some with millions of followers, that allegedly engaged in tweet stealing and “tweetdecking”, mass-retweeting each other — The Tweetdeckoning is nigh. — @Dory, @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue, Girl Code/@reiatabie, Common White Girl/@commonwhitegiri …
Dan Mitchell / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT's Farhad Manjoo tweeted an average of 15x a day for two months while he was supposedly unplugged from social media to get news from print — So many writers have produced “I went offline, and here is what I learned” stories that they became a tedious cliché years ago.
Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip:
Study: reporters driving Facebook engagement come from hyper-partisan sources like Breitbart and the Daily Wire; two in the top 50 write for fake news sites — With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
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April Glaser / Slate:
Investigations reveal discussion groups, online communities, and user-made games on Steam that glorify school shooters and mass shootings — As the country continues to debate gun violence in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, we've seen some of the usual misdirected discussion of whether video games bear some responsibility.
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with YouTube's chief business officer, Robert Kyncl, on managing the Logan Paul controversy, accusations that YouTube is politically biased, and more — “We should have done better,” the chief business officer says of how the company handled the star's widely condemned vlog …
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Inside The Globe and Mail's Lab 351, an in-house incubator that allows employees to pitch and build out new ideas for solving the organization's problems — A driving principle for the incubator is to make it so “ideas can bubble up from the bottom, or the middle, or the top” of the organization.
Deborah Copaken / The Atlantic:
Freelancer charts harassment by former New York Observer editor Ken Kurson and the Observer's lack of formal complaint process for non-staff members — 1. Land a job. At a new online magazine for approximately the same salary you earned in 1992, but whatever.
Joseph Lichterman / The Lenfest Institute …:
A look at WTF Just Happened Today, a member-supported two-man daily news outlet that fosters community by welcoming members' skills and expertise — Most weekday afternoons, freelance editor Susanna J. Sturgis takes a few minutes out of her day to edit the latest post on What The Fuck Just Happened Today? …
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@ylichterman, @meghanjambor and @jsamditis
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Tronc's new publisher Ross Levinsohn has a history of large expenses, lavish parties, and persuading corporate employers to buy startups founded by his friends — Editor's note: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive. — One of the nation's most important newspaper companies …
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@jeremiahdobruck, @johnjcook, @mattdpearce, @sarahparvini, @laobserved, @mattdpearce, @jackshafer and @davidfolkenflik
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Quartz debuts a Facebook Messenger bot that delivers news, introduces readers to Quartz Obsessions, and more, after good responses to its Quartzy chatbot — I feel like I'm back in 2016, because Quartz on Thursday announced the launch of its Facebook Messenger chat bot …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their integrations with Giphy after users saw a racist GIF as an option to add to images — Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their Giphy GIF sticker features after users saw an extremely racist GIF as an option to add to their images.
Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
Facebook gets exclusive rights to stream 25 MLB afternoon games, Facebook's first major US sports league exclusive; sources estimate price at $30-$35M — Social network is said to pay $30 million to $35 million — First time a major U.S. league has given Facebook exclusivity
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