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YouTube releases its first community guidelines enforcement report: 8M+ videos removed in Q4 2017, with 6.7M first flagged by machines — In December we shared how we're expanding our work to remove content that violates our policies. Today, we're providing an update and giving …
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Variety, New York Times, Recode, Engadget, Fortune, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
A Twitter user discovered homophobic posts on Joy Reid's old blog The Reid Report; Reid claims the content was added by hackers — MSNBC weekend host Joy Ann Reid apologized last December for a series of homophobic blog posts she wrote from 2007 to 2009 about then-closeted-Governor Charlie Crist of Florida …
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@ggreenwald, @ggreenwald, @bernstein, Mediaite, Sean Hannity, Fox News and The Daily Caller
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
McClatchy partners with Google to roll out its new subscription tool, Subscribe with Google, across all 30 of its local news sites across 14 states — Google is rolling out its subscription tool, Subscribe with Google, on April 24, and it picked newspaper chain McClatchy as its first launch partner …
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@dawnbvaughan, @cforman, @doug_hanks and @mcclatchy
Radhika Jones / Vanity Fair:
Vanity Fair's website has launched a paywall, with readers getting four articles a month for free before needing to subscribe — I've been an avid watcher of The Crown for its first two seasons. It is one of the most subtle and fascinating studies of female power I've seen.
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Wall Street Journal, Digiday and @claireatki
The Guardian:
Sean Hannity's real estate venture bought houses through a property dealer who was involved in a criminal conspiracy to fraudulently obtain foreclosed homes — Shell company tied to the Fox News host bought homes through Jeff Brock, who was charged in 2016 with fraud and conspiracy for his role …
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The Wrap, Contemptor and Splinter
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Sean Hannity:
Sean Hannity responds to Guardian story, describing it as the “latest fake news attack”, and says he never discussed Obama-era loans with HUD officials
Sean Hannity responds to Guardian story, describing it as the “latest fake news attack”, and says he never discussed Obama-era loans with HUD officials
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AOL, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, Newser, Slate, HuffPost, Splinter, Washington Post, CNBC, @erikwemple, TIME, CNNMoney and The Guardian
Steve Pratt / Pacific Content:
As it prepares to launch a podcasts app, Google adds seamless podcast listening across devices, allowing users to listen on a phone and resume on Google Home — Google has a new podcasting strategy that completely reimagines how people find and listen to shows. Today, part one of our exclusive five-part series.
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Nieman Lab, @ow, @shansquared, @pippateer, Engadget, @moorehn, @agolis, The Next Web, @phkeane, RAIN News and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Monika Bickert / Facebook:
Facebook publishes the internal guidelines it uses to enforce its public Community Standards, will allow users to appeal when their posts are taken down — One of the questions we're asked most often is how we decide what's allowed on Facebook. These decisions are among the most important …
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The Daily Caller, @gaberivera, @darth, VentureBeat, BGR and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Roku adds news to its free channel, including the new streaming network ABC News Live — Last fall, Roku launched its own channel to provide its cord-cutting customers with access to free movies and TV shows in a single destination. Today, it's adding live news to its channel, too.
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Multichannel News
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Tech news site Techdirt sent FOIA requests to the CIA about a card game the agency created to train analysts, recreated it, and is launching it via Kickstarter — Yes, the CIA made a card game. And... we're releasing it. No, really. If you want to play the top secret card game …
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@cfidd and Boing Boing
David Beard / Poynter:
Profile of Alice Crites, the Washington Post's library-trained researcher who suspected account of Roy Moore accuser and shared byline on Pulitzer-winning story — Little known, widely respected: It's another Pulitzer season for Post's Alice Crites — One Pulitzer can make a career.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
A look at The Daily Beast's reinvention under Editor John Avlon, with a focus on pop culture and politics driving traffic of 16.5M monthly visits in 2017 — It's been more than four years since John Avlon, — the former columnist and ubiquitous cable news commentator …
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@davidklion
Christi Carras / Variety:
TAL podcast S-Town, PBS' “Inside Putin's Russia”, and Vice News Tonight on HBO's “Charlottesville: Race and Terror” were among this year's Peabody award winners — The Peabody Awards board of jurors has announced the winners in the news, radio/podcast …
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