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Brian Stelter / CNN:
After complaining about CNN, Trump suggests customers boycott the network's corporate parent, AT&T; source says AT&T executives expected such attacks eventually — California (CNN Business)President Trump's years-long effort to punish CNN for its news coverage took a new …
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New York Times:
Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children — Christiane C. didn't think anything of it when her 10-year-old daughter and a friend uploaded a video of themselves playing in a backyard pool.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
At WWDC, Apple splits iTunes into Podcasts, Music, and TV, announces full-text podcast search, and tools to allow publishers to easily port iOS apps to Mac — Apple just finished the annual keynote event at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the two hours each year when Apple tells us …
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Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Report: US advertisers spent $479.1M on podcast ads in 2018, up 53% from 2017, and are predicted to spend $678.7M this year — U.S. advertisers' spending on podcasts rose 53% in 2018 — Podcasters continue to find growing interest from marketers, but their growth remains constrained …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: FTC secured the rights to begin an antitrust probe of Facebook as part of an agreement to let DOJ lead a Google probe; Facebook stock closes down 7%+ — Federal antitrust enforcers and lawmakers are poised to scrutinize the nation's largest technology companies …
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New York Times:
In email to Hollywood studio execs, Peter Chernin says he is launching a $15M campaign to fund ACLU's legal attack on anti-abortion laws in GA and other states — LOS ANGELES — One of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, the producer and investor Peter Chernin, has started a campaign to raise millions …
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Twitter acquires Fabula AI, which uses machine learning to help detect the spread of misinformation online, to join Twitter's team of AI researchers — Twitter has acquired Fabula AI, a London-based startup that uses machine learning (ML) to help detect the spread of misinformation online.
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Pricing WarnerMedia's streaming service is complicated by HBO's $15/month price: it's double Disney's, but lowering it threatens revenue from cable partners — With its acquisition of Time Warner last year, AT&T was on its way toward creating a streaming service that will one day be the exclusive online home …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Newsletter provider Substack now lets newsletter publishers create public or subscriber-only discussion threads — Substack is launching a new feature called “community” — namely, the ability for newsletter publishers to create discussion threads, which can either be open to anyone or limited to subscribers.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Inside The Salt Lake Tribune's plan for securing 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, which it officially applied for last week as an education organization — The IRS is complicated. So is running a 148-year-old newspaper in 2019. — Three weeks and one New York Times profile after announcing …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: studio partners will be able to license Vudu originals in international markets and put content on Vudu, non-exclusively, for free — Walmart might have scuttled its plans to build a subscription video streaming service catering to the “heartland,” but the company still has streaming video ambitions.
Tony Munroe / Reuters:
Refinitiv, which is partly owned by Reuters, has removed Reuters news stories about Tiananmen from its Eikon terminal under pressure from China's government — BEIJING (Reuters) - Under pressure from China's government, financial information provider Refinitiv has removed …
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