Mediagazer: Inside this week's Snapchat Summit for 13 creators in Venice Beach, where they met Evan Spiegel, learned about product plans, and shared ideas (Kerry Flynn/Digiday)

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
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Kerry Flynn / Digiday:

Inside this week's Snapchat Summit for 13 creators in Venice Beach, where they met Evan Spiegel, learned about product plans, and shared ideas — Shortly after Cyrene Quiamco arrived at her hotel in the Venice neighborhood in Los Angeles, from her home in Little Rock, Arkansas …

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Despite Amazon's efforts, paid reviewers who organize via Reddit, Slack, Discord, and Facebook are still flooding the site with fake reviews — A vast web of Amazon review fraud lives online, and it's designed to evade the company's efforts to thwart it. — One morning in late January …

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

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