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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Both Twitter and YouTube struggled again to contain the spread of conspiracy theories and Islamophobic content amid a news event, as Notre Dame burned — Images and videos of the flaming cathedral spread quickly across social media and were quickly seized upon to push Islamophobic narratives that have flourished in far-right politics.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
YouTube showed a link and description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as part of its fact checking, underneath live streams of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue surpassed $4.52B, up 22% YoY, vs $4.50B est.; net subscriptions grew 9.6M, up 16% YoY, with 1.74M in the US and 7.86M internationally — - The company reported $4.52 billion, vs. $4.50 billion expected, per Refinitiv consensus estimate.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix will test Top 10 lists of popular shows in the UK, shares data for first month of some shows: The Umbrella Academy, 45M; Triple Frontier, 52M; FYRE, 20M — Ben Affleck-starring ‘Triple Frontier’ Has Been Watched by 52M Households in 4 Weeks — Netflix is getting ready to reveal …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Netflix says it looks to add only ~300K US subscribers in the next quarter, down from 850K a year ago, reflecting its struggle to grow domestically — The streaming company added 9.6 million subscribers last quarter — and it says it isn't worried about Apple or Disney.
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Wired:
Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.
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Lydia Polgreen / HuffPost:
HuffPost is launching a membership program, HuffPost Plus, with tiers from free to premium, offering access to members-only newsletters and other features — From voting rights to self-care, HuffPost's stories put people before power. Support the mission by becoming a member.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: James Murdoch wants to use some of his proceeds from the sale of 21st Century Fox to invest in comic book publisher Artists, Writers and Artisans — Former chief of 21st Century Fox is beginning to invest some of the $2.2 billion he made from the sale of the company's major entertainment properties
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Financial Times, @benmullin, Deadline, @arappeport and @alexeheath
Reuters:
Google has removed the popular video app TikTok from its Play Store in India to comply with a state court's directive — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a state court's directive to prohibit its downloads …
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information, says she's considering ads for things like jobs and events but remains leery of programmatic and native ads — - Jessica Lessin, one of Business Insider's “100 people transforming business,” started The Information based on pricey subscriptions …
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@businessinsider and Talking Biz News
Pankaj Mishra / FactorDaily:
FactorDaily, a three-year-old longform tech journalism site in India, will end its text stories next week to focus on podcasts — First, the news: we are stopping our longform text stories on FactorDaily from next week. We will, instead, concentrate on podcasts, becoming an ‘audio first’ storytelling platform.
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@scepticgeek, @viveksinhas, @jikkuvarghese, @ariathak, @logic, @natasha_malpani, @akm1410, @samidhas and @raju
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Meredith says it has had 20M views across its 14 shows on IGTV, Instagram's longform video service, and plans to launch six more by mid-2019 — In October, Meredith announced that it was going to produce 10 shows for IGTV, Instagram's long-form live video service. — Now, it's doubling down.
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@media_evan, @torystarr3 and @vanessaw
Tim Katz / Official Google India Blog:
YouTube India says it will display info panels in English and Hindi on all videos by a channel that is owned by a news publisher that is funded by a government — In the last few years, news has become an integral part of YouTube's experience for millions of Indians online.
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Ren LaForme / Poynter:
A list of winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes, including Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar, the NYT, WSJ, and others — This post will be updated as the awards are announced. — The winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York City on Monday.
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