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Infowars page removed from LinkedIn and Pinterest, but remains on Twitter, which says Infowars and Alex Jones don't 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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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 — “Hate speech” is extraordinarily vague and subjective. Libel and slander are not. — Mr. French is a First Amendment litigator and senior writer for National Review.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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