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Bhanu Pratap / Reuters:
Facebook says it has removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attack in the first 24 hours; over 1.2M of those videos were blocked at upload — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Helping people examine killers' motives could help defuse radicalization, but the press has a responsibility not to pour gasoline on a roaring blaze of racism — Mass shootings have a way of making the theoretical talk about Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and their role in spreading hate all too real.
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
As social media platforms struggle to remove the NZ shooter's video, the Sun and Daily Mirror ran edited footage and Mail Online published the manifesto as well — Other British news outlets, The Sun and The Mirror, featured the attacker's first-person video, including in GIF form on the homepages of their websites.
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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees detail the process and the difficulty of moderating Facebook Live
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Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Fox News did not air Jeanine Pirro's show on Saturday, a week after her remarks that Rep. Ilhan Omar may not support the US Constitution because she's a Muslim — Jeanine Pirro's weekly show on Fox News did not air on Saturday evening one week after the former federal judge suggested on air …
New York Times:
American officials citing intel reports say Jamal Khashoggi's killing was part of a broad campaign to silence dissenters, authorized by MbS over a year before — WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia authorized a secret campaign to silence dissenters …
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@ceciliakang, @davidcayj, @karaswisher, @axios, @markmazzettinyt and Axios
Kayleigh Barber / Folio:
Interview with Wired's EIC Nicholas Thompson and audience development director Indu Chandrasekhar on subscriptions, newsletters, Apple News, and more — A year after launching its paywall, Wired isn't done testing out new ways to capitalize on this and other consumer-based revenue models.
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@kayleighjbarber and Talking Biz News
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Australian journalists covered the years-long child sex abuse investigation of George Pell and his subsequent trials amid court suppression orders — In February 2016, Lucie Morris-Marr broke news of a police probe into allegations that Australia's Cardinal George Pell …
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@shelleymiranda and @cjr
Sam Nussey / Reuters:
In Japan, three-year-old online streamer AbemaTV has ~25 ad-supported channels and ~8M viewers per week with a focus on low-budget reality-based programming — TOKYO (Reuters) - On a Friday night at a downtown Tokyo television studio, 12 teen models with cutesy nicknames like Ayamin and Kyokyo …
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Rollo Romig / New York Times:
Profile of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist, whose murder in 2017 became the symbol of the ruling party's war on journalists it often calls “presstitutes” — How the journalist Gauri Lankesh became a casualty of India's increasingly intolerant politics.
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@pbhushan1, @mohanguruswamy, @priyankkharge and @meenakandasamy
Nicole Sperling / Vanity Fair:
Since the Disney-Fox merger was announced, longtime 20th Century Fox employees say they've been issued mostly vague guidelines with no clear business directives — With the biggest entertainment merger in a lifetime about to close, anxiety is running high on the Fox lot and beyond.
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@jamsessionmb, @nicsperling, @newmutantsup, @charlieridgely and UPROXX
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Spotify says “every monopolist will suggest they have done nothing wrong”, that Apple's response is not new, and is entirely in line with Spotify's expectations — In Friday's early hours, Spotify and Apple traded potshots in their ongoing battle over the App Store.
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Insider says it has 3.7M subscribers across its daily channel and video shows on Snapchat and is adding 15,000 subscribers a day — Insider has found a new way to make money off its old Facebook news-feed videos: by recutting and distributing them on Snapchat.
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