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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Some YouTube thumbnails depicted bestiality, now pulled; YouTube says monitoring tech missed because bestiality thumbnails may lack signals of typical porn — There is bestiality on YouTube, and it's surprisingly easy to find. It's also surprisingly prevalent, but not in videos …
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@pkafka, @jimwaterson, The Verge, Mashable, @gaywonk, @mattmittenthal, @cwarzel, @cwarzel and @cwarzel, more at Techmeme »
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Justin Baragona / Contemptor:
Infosec expert for Joy Reid says significant evidence exists that her old blog was compromised and some recently circulated posts were not on site at any time — Earlier this week, Mediaite published a bombshell report on the discovery of a large number of homophobic posts that had been discovered …
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@erikwemple, shoqvalue.com and Mediaite
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Chris Butler / Internet Archive Blogs:
Wayback Machine says it declined to take down “fraudulent” blog posts after Joy Reid's lawyers contacted archive; robots.txt later excluded blog from archives — Some recent press stories (1, 2) have discussed archived blog posts of a prominent journalist, Joy Ann Reid …
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New York Times, Fast Company, @dangillmor, Contemptor, @kfile and The Daily Caller
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Twitter user shared screenshots of homophobic posts on Joy Reid's Reid Report, found via Wayback Machine; Reid claims content was manipulated by external party
Twitter user shared screenshots of homophobic posts on Joy Reid's Reid Report, found via Wayback Machine; Reid claims content was manipulated by external party
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Mediaite, HuffPost, @pflag, Mediaite, Splinter, @jamie_maz, @bernstein, The Daily Caller, BuzzFeed, Boing Boing, @ggreenwald, Fox News, @ggreenwald, @kfile, @caulkthewagon, @ggreenwald, @bernstein, @jamie_maz, Sean Hannity and New York Post
Wall Street Journal:
Some ad tech firms worry EU's GDPR will just increase market share for Facebook and Google, but EU's Věra Jourová doubts that will be an effect of the law — Big tech companies gain while smaller online ad firms are squeezed under the European Union's GDPR, which takes effect in May.
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@ddayen, @keachhagey, New York Times, @patrickruffini, @matthewstoller, @jason_kint, @douglascarswell, @astepanovich, @karaswisher, @antoniogm, @privacymatters, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @dxsimmons, @jason_kint and @krmarko
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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@cforman, @laurenhorsch, @dawnbvaughan, @doug_hanks, @mcclatchy and @cforman
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Mark Anderson / Sacramento Business Journal:
McClatchy's Sacramento Bee announces plans to lay off or buy out 14 editorial staffers and eight working on production and copy desk, effective in early May
McClatchy's Sacramento Bee announces plans to lay off or buy out 14 editorial staffers and eight working on production and copy desk, effective in early May
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Comstock's magazine, @kylebuis, @callaghanpeter, @andrewsheeler, @fergusonbj, @mattdpearce, @byrosenberg, @newsfletch, @rl_bynum, @byrosenberg and @byrosenberg
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches a redesigned mobile app for its free users that lets them listen on-demand to any song on one of 15 personalized discovery playlists — Today at the Gramercy Theater in NYC, Spotify's Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström announced a brand new free version of the Spotify mobile app.
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Recode, Slate, @alexeheath, newsroom.spotify.com, The Verge, @daigosweden, TechHive, @alexeheath, RAIN News, Engadget, @lucas_shaw, Fortune, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Engadget and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Sinclair revises plan for Tribune deal, would sell 23 TV stations, keep New York's WPIX, sell but operate Chicago's WGN, end up with 215 stations in 102 markets — Sinclair Broadcast Group has been forced to significantly revise its plan for station divestitures if its $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media is approved.
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Broadcasting & Cable, TVSpy, The Wrap, Reuters, sbgi.net, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis and Radio & Television …
Mike Shields / Business Insider:
Sources: Bloomberg is planning to erect a paywall on its site, possibly as soon as next month — - Bloomberg is planning to start charging readers to access stories on Bloomberg.com, potentially starting next month, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Talking Biz News and @yoda
Ina Fried / Axios:
Oath, which owns Yahoo and AOL, is changing its terms of service to force users to give up their class action lawsuit rights in the US — Verizon's Oath unit, which includes Yahoo, AOL and other media properties, is making a change that requires users to give up their right to be part of class action lawsuits.
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@inafried, more at Techmeme »
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
UK-based digital publication The Debrief, which launched in 2014 and was aimed at young women, is shutting down, possibly due to changes to Facebook News Feed — It launched in 2014 with ambitions to be more than just a “BuzzFeed” for young women. Now, The UK-based digital publication The Debrief, is shutting down.
New York Times:
Records and interviews show the head of security for EPA chief Scott Pruitt moonlighted for National Enquirer publisher AMI amid the 2016 campaign — Pasquale Perrotta is being investigated by the E.P.A. and Congress for his outside work, which included assignments for American Media Inc., the publisher of The National Enquirer.
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@kenvogel and @ericliptonnyt
Amy Russo / Mediaite:
Trump tells supporters in email he's boycotting the White House Correspondents Dinner and will hold a rally that night in Michigan's Washington Township instead — President Donald Trump is explaining his absence from the upcoming White House Correspondents' Dinner with a fundraising email …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and The Daily Caller
Owen Jones:
Journalism is one of the most socially exclusive professions in Britain, concentrated in one of the world's most expensive cities, and it must change — This tweet has triggered such an inferno amongst British media types, the response would probably have been more measured if I'd told every single …
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@owenjones84, @matthewstadlen, @ilana, @felixsalmon, @mattyglesias, @craigbamford, @jk_growling, @nicklittler, @pekkapekkala, @hugh_sir, @cjfdillow, @neon_uk and @owenjones84