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Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Kara Swisher and Jack Dorsey's #KaraJack chat showed Twitter needs major product fixes to make it easier to follow complex public conversations — Without major fixes to the product, the platform will never be a place for complex discussions. — Earlier this week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation says “digital gangster” Facebook deliberately broke laws, calls for antitrust, data abuse investigations — A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes …
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South China Morning Post:
Xuexi Qiangguo, a propaganda app with Snapchat-like messaging features developed by China's Communist Party, becomes top free app on Apple's App Store in China — The Xuexi Qiangguo app is now most downloaded item on Apple's App Store in China, surpassing popular social media apps such as WeChat and TikTok.
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James Wagner / New York Times:
Profile of Sports Reference, a family of sports websites with 11 full-time staff, that its founder says had 1B page views last year — PHILADELPHIA — While writing a sermon in September, Cheryl Pyrch, the pastor of Summit Presbyterian Church, needed an assist.
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Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Blippi, a YouTube star popular with kids, says he used DMCA takedown notices for years to remove Harlem Shake Poop, an embarrassing 2013 video he starred in — Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden.
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@cshirky, @charlielyne, @tiffanycli, @scout_finch, @arthur_affect and @jason_koebler, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
An account of the rise and untimely death of Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder Colin Kroll, based on interviews with and documents from friends, police, and others — Self-taught coder Colin Kroll shot to startup fame, allowing him to live life in a fast lane — Colin Kroll, a college dropout …
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Poynter:
Outgoing director of the International Fact-Checking Network reflects on how fact-checking changed since 2015, dealing with platforms like Facebook, and more — So long, fact-checkers … When I started as director of the International Fact-Checking Network in September 2015, there was very little there to direct.
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@politifact, @newslitproject, @firstdraftnews, @digiphile, @dpfunke, Nieman Lab, @janebsinger and @mantzarlis
Amal Ahmed / Columbia Journalism Review:
How ISPU, a think tank focusing on religious minorities, uses poll data and reports to help journalists challenge stereotypical portrayals of Muslim Americans — Muslim Americans are more likely to marry outside their faith tradition than Protestants. A third of the members …
Anna Altman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, who has been closely tracking how Fox News coverage influences Trump's tweets since 2017 — “There's a saying in politics that personnel is policy,” Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, said on a recent afternoon.
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@mattgertz, @mattgertz, @susannahchen, @mattgertz, @mattgertz, @mattgertz and Washington Post
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
A history of how many 19th century newspapers blackmailed prominent figures, made newly relevant following the Jeff Bezos-National Enquirer scandal — After buying The Washington Post in 2013, Jeffrey P. Bezos visited the newsroom and answered questions from employees in a town-hall-style meeting.
Thanks:@mikerosenwald
Loyola Phoenix:
In editorial, journalists at Loyola University's newspaper describe how the university communications office has restricted media access to professors and staff — A Phoenix news reporter, on the trail of a story about Loyola's above-average abundance of women in STEM programs …
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@johnrobinson, @mikemcdtweets, @crampell and @royalpratt
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Brazilian fact-checker AosFatos.org describes how it found an estimated 3M visits to fake news sites allegedly connected to its impersonator AosFatos.com — Someone is publishing fake news stories on a website that looks like a fact-checking organization. — On Wednesday, Brazilian fact …
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