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Will Oremus / Slate:
Facebook has forfeited our trust to the point that we see nefarious motives in any misstep, as some overblown reactions to Spotify and Netflix integrations show — Facebook may or may not have lost its handle on our data. But it has definitely lost its handle on the public narrative—and the benefit of the doubt.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @lam_barrett, @nxthompson, @zittrain, @willoremus, @syardi, @willoremus, @zittrain, @zittrain, @hshaban, @jason_kint, Techdirt, The Wrap, Vox, Motherboard, The Guardian and @facebook, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
Deep dive into why Saudis murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a moderate and patriot dissident journalist of Saudi Arabia, after failing to woo him back with promises — Jamal Khashoggi had been in the United States for only a few months when the forces he had fled in Saudi Arabia made clear that he would never fully escape.
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@wesleylowery, @postbaron, @gregjaffe, @michalskilaura, @abuaardvark and Editor & Publisher
Rani Molla / Recode:
More than half of top 50 shows on Netflix, by one measure, are owned by others like Disney, NBCU, and WarnerMedia, which are planning rival streaming services — Fortunately for the streaming giant, its own shows are popular too. — Many of Netflix's most popular shows are owned by companies that plan to compete with Netflix.
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@ranimolla and @alexeheath
Juliet Chung / Wall Street Journal:
Moonbug, a London-based startup that recently acquired YouTube channel Little Baby Bum, raises $145M to buy and develop more programming for kids — Entertainment company wants to acquire popular shows, invest in production — Children's entertainment company Moonbug Entertainment …
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TechCrunch, @felixcapital and Deadline
Agence France-Press:
Der Spiegel plans a special 23-page section on how award-winning reporter Claas Relotius got away with inventing sources and stories — German magazine calls Claas Relotius scam ‘worst thing that can happen’ to editorial team — The German news weekly Der Spiegel is to publish …
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Spiegel Online, @natashafatah, @shane_bauer, @petersmanns, DW.COM, Washington Post, The Wrap, The Guardian and @mikeisaac
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Medium:
Two residents of Fergus Falls, MN, detail what Claas Relotius of Der Spiegel fabricated or got wrong when he visited to write about US rural support of Trump
Two residents of Fergus Falls, MN, detail what Claas Relotius of Der Spiegel fabricated or got wrong when he visited to write about US rural support of Trump
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New York Times, @jeffjohnroberts, @tomdreisbach, @lachlan, @chashomans, @stillgray, Politico, Spiegel Online, @spiegel_english, @nkjemisin, @shane_bauer, @c_stroop, @bentaub91, @mathewi, @juliareinstein, @bernstein, @juliareinstein, Hmm Daily, New York Post, @craigsilverman, @yair_rosenberg, @macloo and The Rural Blog
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Fortnite creator faces lawsuits alleging copyright infringement for profiting off dance “emotes”, raising questions about monetizing public forms of expression — Epic Games' Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now, but one of its biggest sources of revenue …
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Wall Street Journal, @bryfitz, @mathewi, @mattpavelle and The Ringer, more at Techmeme »
Vox Media:
Vox Media launches Vox Video Lab on YouTube, a two-tiered video subscription program starting at $4.99 with access to Q&As, outtakes, and more from Vox creators — New Membership Program Launched with Support from Google News Initiative — Today we're happy to introduce the latest project …
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Business Insider
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Forbes Media CEO says overall revenue and profit are up 18% and 42% YoY, respectively, and that it plans to invest in or acquire one or two companies per year — Forbes said it just had its most profitable year since it became Forbes Media in 2006. And now, the company …
Thanks:@steverubel
Kaitlin Thaney / Wikimedia Foundation:
Wikimedia says Facebook, which uses Wikipedia content to provide information on article sources in the News Feed, has donated $1M to the Wikimedia Endowment — We are pleased to announce that Facebook, one of the world's leading social networking platforms, has given $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment …
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VentureBeat and MediaNama
The Guardian:
Russia's media regulator says it will review whether the BBC is in compliance with Russian law in a retaliatory move after Ofcom in the UK censured Russia's RT — Retaliatory move comes after UK watchdog found network RT broke impartiality rules — Russia's media regulator has said it will carry …
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@ksenijapavlovic, BBC, Telegraph and BBC
Tara John / CNN:
UK's Advertising Standards Authority announces companies will be banned from including gender stereotypes that could cause offense in ads beginning June 2019 — London (CNN)Depictions of girls as less academic than boys or men being belittled for “unmanly” behavior will be soon be a thing of the past in British commercials.
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The Guardian, The Independent and The Week
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
iflix, a Netflix-like streaming service targeting emerging markets, is selling its Africa business to concentrate on Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines — Iflix, the emerging market Netflix competitor that's backed by Sky, is leaving Africa to double down on its business in Asia.