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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 …
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Splinter, New York Post, @amy_siskind, @jayrosen_nyu, infowars.com, @samstein, The Week and USA Today
Gizmodo:
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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New York Times, Nieman Lab, Columbia Journalism Review, @jeffjarvis, Techdirt and @mathewi
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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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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CNBC, CNET, The Wrap, @stevekovach, @stevekovach, @cwarzel and Quartz, more at Techmeme »
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CNET:
Infowars page removed from LinkedIn and Pinterest, but remains on Twitter, which has said it does not violate its policy, and Instagram
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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Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Observer, Mashable, TechCrunch, HuffPost, @mediaite, Engadget, @oliverdarcy, The A.V. Club, @rasmus_kleis, CNBC, Business Insider, CNBC, The Guardian and Slate, 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 …
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Music Business Worldwide, Hollywood Reporter, @musicbizworld and The Wrap
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 …
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@verifiedjoseph, @jcsouth and data.verifiedjoseph.com, more at Techmeme »
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Video streaming startup NewTV, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, raises $1B round with Disney, Alibaba, NBCUniversal, and others participating — - Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman have raised $1 billion from media and technology heavyweights for a new mobile streaming venture.
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 …
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Light Reading, The Wrap, Variety, AT&T, MediaPost, TechCrunch and Tubefilter
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.
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Variety, Business Insider, @thrmattbelloni, @thr and TV Tattle
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 …
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Mediaite and Washington Post
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
It will not be long before reporters become casualties of the Trump era's rhetoric and a journalist is killed — Before too long, a reporter will become a direct casualty of the Trump era. — With the ever-present caveat that predictions are worthless: an American journalist …
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Showtime CEO David Nevins says he wants to renew “Who is America?” for a second season and suggests Sarah Palin interview may not be broadcast — David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock; D Dipasupil/Getty Images — Showtime “would love” to renew Sacha Baron Cohen's controversial series Who Is America? …
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Slate, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Mashable