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9:40 AM ET, June 4, 2019

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 Top News: 
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
FloSports, a provider of live streaming and on-demand sports programming, raises $47M led by Discovery with WWE participating, bringing total raised to $75M  —  FloSports, a provider of live-streaming and on-demand niche sports programming, announced a $47 million Series C funding round, led by current investor Discovery.
Discussion: The Wrap, Reuters and Awful Announcing
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.
Discussion: Substack Blog
 
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Reuters:
Sources: Google's ad market dominance and its effect on ad tech firms and publishers is one of the areas of the DOJ's possible antitrust investigation
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Police drop investigation of two Belfast journalists arrested for alleged theft of a confidential police document used in their No Stone Unturned film
Discussion: The Guardian
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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
Sportswriting in UK revolves around embargoes, even for comments made by players after games, a phenomenon some say is based on extreme lack of access
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Profile of HitRecord, a GitHub-like collaborative media platform cofounded by Joseph Gordon-Levitt that has paid out $3M+ to content contributors since 2010
 

 
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

 
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