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Knight First Amendment Institute, Gizmodo, and others ask Facebook to amend its ToS, which prohibits the use of journalistic tools like web scrapers — Last year, we launched an investigation into how Facebook's People You May Know tool makes its creepily accurate recommendations.

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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:

Ipsos: 43% of Republicans say they believe Trump should have the power to shut down news outlets “engaged in bad behavior”, with 12% of Democrats agreeing — Freedom of the press may be guaranteed in the Constitution. But a plurality of Republicans want to give President Trump …

Discussion: New York Post, Splinter, @amy_siskind, @jayrosen_nyu, infowars.com, @samstein, The Week and USA Today

Shoshana Wodinsky / The Verge:

Following bans of Infowars' content, its mobile app has shot up iOS App Store and Google Play Store charts, going from 47th to 4th in US news category on iOS — ‘Infowars WILL NOT be silenced’ — Infowars Official, the app named after Alex Jones' controversial radio talk show …

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Infowars page removed from LinkedIn and Pinterest, but remains on Twitter, which has said it does not violate its policy, and Instagram

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Snap reports Q2 revenue of $262.3M, up 44% YoY, and 188M DAUs, up 8% YoY but down from 191M in Q1 against competition from Facebook Stories — The Stories War has officially killed Snapchat's growth. In Q2 2018 earnings today, Snapchat's daily user count shrank 1.5 percent to 188 million this quarter …

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Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal:

Snap's DAU decline in Q2 marks the first time Snapchat has lost daily users since the company was founded in 2011 — Company is latest social-media company to post disappointing user growth for the quarter — Snap Inc. SNAP .54% reported on Tuesday that its number of daily active users fell …

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Jeff South / Nieman Lab:

More than 1,000 US news sites and about a third of the 100 largest newspapers are still unavailable online in Europe, two months after GDPR took effect — Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers have instead chosen …

Discussion: @verifiedjoseph, @jcsouth and data.verifiedjoseph.com, more at Techmeme »

Jem Aswad / Variety:

Warner Music Group sells its entire stake in Spotify for $504M — UPDATED: In its earnings call on Tuesday morning, Warner Music Group announced that it has now sold its entire stake in Spotify, realizing $504 million. — CEO Steve Cooper said that the sale resulted in $126 million …

Discussion: Music Business Worldwide, Hollywood Reporter, @musicbizworld and The Wrap

Kimberly Nordyke / Hollywood Reporter:

In a 45-minute rant on his radio show, Howard Stern said CBS CEO Les Moonves tried to “ruin his life” with a $500M CBS lawsuit 12 years ago — The SiriusXM host referred to Moonves as “Tony Soprano” and went into the backstory of the $500 million lawsuit that CBS “socked” him with 12 years ago.

Discussion: Variety, Business Insider, @thrmattbelloni, @thr and TV Tattle

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

AT&T has acquired controlling interest in Otter Media from the Chernin Group, a deal valued at more than $1B; Otter Media will be folded into WarnerMedia — LOS ANGELES — Jesse Jacobs, president of the Chernin Group, felt defeated. — It was July 12, 2013, and Mr. Jacobs had just found …

Discussion: The Wrap, Variety, MediaPost, AT&T and TechCrunch

Jason Schwartz / Politico:

Fox News says it is addressing producers and “talent involved” on Jesse Watters show over racist comments made about NYT writer Sarah Jeong — It was not a drill. Saturday night on Jesse Watters' show was the moment Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott had instructed her top producers …

Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post

Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:

WaPo employees: Bezos should focus on fixing the 401(k), reopen US bureaus, refocus the sports desk, bring back the ombudsman, and plan for the post-Trump era — A punch list for the paper's owner. — On August 5, 2013, Washington Post employees gathered in their auditorium …

Discussion: @abeaujon and Washington Post

Vibhuti Sharma / Reuters:

Disney Q3: revenue of $15.23B, up 7% YoY, missing expectations of $15.34B; cable and studio revenue rise 2.5% YoY to $4.19B and 20.3% YoY to $2.88B respectively — (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Tuesday due to higher programming costs and another drop in subscribers at ESPN.

Discussion: The Wrap, Variety, Deadline, CNBC, Multichannel News, Deadline, Investor Relations and Wall Street Journal

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