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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 — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is quickly disappearing from the internet, though some accesses to his site Infowars is still available on the web.
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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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David French / New York Times:
Given the malleability of the “hate speech” label, tech companies should use libel and slander legal standards when removing content like Infowars
Given the malleability of the “hate speech” label, tech companies should use libel and slander legal standards when removing content like Infowars
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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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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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Michael Phillips / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Roanoke Times files a suit against its ex-reporter Andy Bitter over the rights to the Twitter account @AndyBitterVT, alleging it's company property he inherited — The Roanoke Times filed a lawsuit Tuesday morning in a U.S. District Court against a former reporter over the rights to a Twitter account.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 …
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Kali Hays / WWD:
Analysis: US magazines lost ~$417.5M in revenue last year as top 50 biggest advertisers cut spending; there are now 7,176 magazines, 207 fewer than a decade ago — Some magazines are figuring out how to drive growth online and in print, but only a few. — The magazine industry puts on a brave face, but data doesn't lie.
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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Report from FCC's inspector general refutes controversial claims by senior FCC officials that a cyberattack hobbled its comment system in May 2017 — An investigation carried out by Federal Communication Commission's own inspector general officially refutes controversial claims that a cyberattack …