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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Facebook to shut down Trending and is testing new features like a breaking news label for publishers, a Today In section, and a News Video in Watch section — NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is shutting down its ill-fated “trending” news section after four years, a company executive told The Associated Press.
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Facebook's new promoted content rules block some ads from Vice, Newsmax, others, classifying ads as political and requiring advertiser verification via mail — 'Everything we've tried to do in the past couple days has just been shut down,' says one publisher
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Ned Berke / Center for Cooperative Media:
Facebook's plans to manage promoted political content: a machine learning classifier begins June 6 and will scan text and images for terms related to politics — Facebook announced on May 24 that any Facebook Page promoting political content on the platform will need to follow the platform's rules for …
Dan Rys / Billboard:
Spotify updates its hateful content and conduct policy, says it will no longer use the provision that led to removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from playlists — Three weeks after Spotify announced a new policy regarding hate content and hateful conduct on its service …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Joy Reid apologizes for old posts on the blog she started in 2005: “I'm sorry for the collateral damage and pain” — Problems piling up at NBC — After months of scrutiny and questions surrounding her now-shuttered blog, MSNBC Joy Reid offered an unconditional apology on Friday …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
While BuzzFeed's audience for lifestyle content is large, its news unit drove its first two deals with Netflix and Hulu as it works to find revenue beyond ads — BuzzFeed has built a sizable audience on YouTube and Facebook with its entertainment and lifestyle content.
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The Daily Beast:
Tracing Maria Bartiromo's shift from fierce financial journalist at CNBC to pro-Trump Fox anchor whose ratings soared as her embrace of Trumpism progressed — “President Obama politicized all of his agencies: the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the CIA—they were all involved in trying to take down Donald Trump."
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Netflix sues Relativity Media, claiming Relativity failed to deliver a required number of releases in 2017 and breached an exclusivity deal — Netflix sued Relativity Media on Friday, accusing the bankrupt mini-studio of violating an exclusivity agreement by providing five films to Amazon and Starz.
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
New civil lawsuit includes a previously undisclosed allegation of rape by Harvey Weinstein, following a woman's pitch in 2011 for an internet marketing startup — Three women filed a new class action lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein on Friday, including one who alleged that Weinstein raped …
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Steve Smith / Folio:
Magazines like The New Yorker and The Economist develop apps to give users a more curated experience, to increase retention without overwhelming the reader — As Apple's App Store turns 10-years-old next month, magazine publishers are still figuring out how best to capitalize on the platform they once saw as a potential savior.
Rebecca Keegan / Vanity Fair:
Columnist Nikki Finke plans to return to the web, first by tweeting election commentary before launching a new politics focused website — The once feared Hollywood columnist is training her eye on politics. — Like many Democrats, Nikki Finke spent Election Night 2016 in an emotional fetal position.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple is working on a new ad network for app promotion, in talks with Snap, Pinterest, others to distribute its search ads for apps — Increasing ad sales could help offset slowing iPhone growth, but effort would face stiff competition from Google and Facebook
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