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Facebook announces that it would stop allowing ad targeting to race, gender, and age groups in the housing, jobs, or credit categories by the end of the year — After years of criticism, Facebook announced on Tuesday that it would stop allowing advertisers in key categories to show …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook settles with ACLU over allegedly discriminatory ads for employment, housing, and credit, paying ~$5M and making changes to prevent discrimination — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has reached a historic settlement with Facebook over advertising practices that allegedly discriminated against minorities.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
David Sirota, hired March 11 by Bernie Sanders, informally advised Sanders for months while attacking opponents on Twitter and in The Guardian through December — Shortly before he gave speeches launching his 2020 campaign earlier this month, Bernie Sanders emailed his supporters …
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Instead of focusing only on moderation, the debate around New Zealand massacre should look at how platforms incentivize and provide infrastructure for extremism — It's time for a real conversation about the infrastructure and incentives that Big Tech provides far-right extremists.
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Variety:
21st Century Fox and “New” Fox are now standalone entities, with Fox adding four new board members including Chase Carey and former House Speaker Paul Ryan — UPDATED: 21st Century Fox said Tuesday it has completed the distribution of shares to birth the Fox Corporation.
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Allison Braden / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Baltimore, Charlotte, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh, ex-writers of alt-weeklies are starting publications, focusing on advocacy reporting and overlooked topics — Just 35 days after the publisher of Creative Loafing Charlotte laid off the alt-weekly's seven full-time employees …
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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple says it will support three media literacy programs in the US and Europe that aim to combat fake news and train young people to seek reliable news sources — Just days before Apple's big March 25th event where it will unveil a new subscription news service, the company has revealed plans …
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Medium:
Medium is once again seeking writers and editors to launch new publications on its platform, offering temporary contracts which may or may not be renewed — We are looking to fund more great editors, writers, and publishers — Every day, millions of people read unique, thought-provoking stories on Medium.
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Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Former New York Times food writer Mark Bittman is launching Salty, a publication covering “practical” stories about food, on Medium
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Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Some music publishers sue fitness startup Peloton, seeking $150M+ in damages, saying Peloton has used music in workout videos since 2014 without proper licenses — Several members of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) have collectively filed a lawsuit against fitness startup Peloton today …
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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Snapchat has started brokering deals between influencers and brands, with a focus on those creating AR content, in a bid to retain creators using its platform — Right around Cyrene Quiamco's 30th birthday, Snapchat came through with a gift: a brand hookup.
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The Incline:
Spirited Media has sold Pittsburgh news site The Incline to local news startup Whereby.us, which operates sites in Miami, Seattle, Orlando, and Portland — The Incline's getting a signal boost and new partners in journalism. — Dear Incline readers, — Some personal news: we've got a new owner!
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Kate Clark / TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator has backed Brew, a podcasting network which pays creators based on their number of unique listens — Podcasts are exploding in popularity and Y Combinator, the startup accelerator known for its long list of unicorn graduates, is throwing its support behind …
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Media Matters for America:
Despite Alex Jones' YouTube ban, an account posting only InfoWars content, called Resistance News, had millions of views, before YouTube took it down today — Update (3/19/19): Following the publication of this post, the Resistance News channel was removed from YouTube …
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Rep. Devin Nunes is suing Twitter and some of its users for defamation, alleging Twitter is shadow banning conservatives, seeks $250M+ in damages — House Intelligence Committee ranking member and former chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is suing Twitter and a number of its users for more than $250 million.
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
NYT CEO Mark Thompson says the company has cut the number of articles it provides to Apple's news app, as Apple prepares to launch a subscription news service — The New York Times has recently cut the number of stories it's giving to Apple Inc.'s news app, the newspaper publisher's chief executive officer …
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