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3:55 PM ET, June 4, 2019

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

YouTube bans kids from live-streaming video unless accompanied by an adult, after a NYT report about YouTube's recommendation algorithm for posted videos — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — YouTube is taking additional steps to restrict the possibility that children …

Discussion: YouTube Blog, CNET, @czaneh and Deadline, more at Techmeme »

New York Times:
Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children

Max Willens / Digiday:

Facebook says its tools allowing paywall deployment through Instant Articles are now widely available, tests News Funding for converting paying subs inside FB — Facebook is doing more to help publishers big and small pursue subscriptions, both on and off its platform.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, Adweek and Facebook Journalism Project

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 — SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ad tech firms and publishers have had to stay in the good graces of Google or risk insolvency.

Discussion: CNBC, Politico, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, The Verge, Bloomberg, The Verge, CNN and WTVR-TV

Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News:

Spotify begins a small scale test of curated podcast playlists to enhance podcast discoverability — This came in overnight. Fresh off its run of podcast company acquisitions, Spotify is now taking a crack at the problem that's perhaps most groaned about in the community: discoverability.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, The Verge, @caseynewton and Engadget

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 …

Discussion: @newsbyschmidt, @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab and @niemanlab

Marc Tracy / New York Times:

Internal email: Vice Media EIC Jonathan Smith and managing editor Rachel Schallom have been let go after Vice's consolidation of several brands under Vice.com — The editor in chief and the managing editor of Vice Media's website have both been let go, the new executive overseeing …

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, American Press Institute, TechCrunch, @bakerluke, @niubi and @nickshaxson

James Griffiths / CNN:
In China, June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is nicknamed “internet maintenance day” as websites go dark rather than risk publishing

Discussion: @cnn, @keithboykin, @jgriffiths, Natasha Chen CNN and @hadas_gold

Oliver Darcy / CNN:

Co-author of NYT Biden-Ukraine story hired as Ukraine president's spokesperson; NYT defends article, says it didn't know of her application for the job — New York (CNN Business)The New York Times reported last month that Joe Biden was facing conflict of interest questions for his role …

Discussion: @jbenton, @sivavaid, @brianstelter, @johnmcquaid, Fox News, The Daily Beast, The Independent and Mediaite

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 — Federal antitrust enforcers and lawmakers are poised to scrutinize the nation's largest technology companies for potential anticompetitive practices …

Discussion: The Verge, Associated Press, New York Times, CNBC, Reuters, Axios, @ceciliakang, @greg_ip, @politicalshort, Gizmodo, Fortune, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, USA Today, MediaPost, NBC News, The Week and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Amanda Meade / The Guardian:

News Corp Australia plans to cut 55 journalists across the country who lack digital skills — Staff told ‘big cuts’ will include 55 editorial posts as executive chairman says newsrooms need ‘new skills’ — News Corp staff will be hit by a widespread round of targeted redundancies, including 55 journalists, within days.

Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald, @fexi, @kamahlaje, @hornery, AdNews, @antmandan, SBS News, Australian Financial Review and Mumbrella

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:

Two reporters laid off from BuzzFeed and HuffPost form an advocacy group, the Save Journalism Project, to raise awareness about big tech's damage to journalism — Two prominent reporters who were recently laid off from digital media outlets are forming a new advocacy group to raise awareness …

Discussion: @mmasnick, @dcbigjohn, @rosiegray, @rosiegray, @rosiegray and @lebassett

Paul Karp / The Guardian:

Australian federal police raided the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst over her reporting on a leaked plan to expand government spying — AFP officers execute search warrant over 2018 report about new powers for intelligence agencies to spy on Australians

Discussion: New York Times, Australian Federal Police, @crowedm, NEWS.com.au, BBC, @nytimes, @rharris334, @annikasmethurst, @andrea__leong, @edourdoo, @ausfedpolice, 3AW, AdNews, Committee to Protect …, Senator Nick McKim, Reporters Without Borders and Mumbrella

Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:

Daily Beast article exposing the man allegedly behind fake Pelosi video sparks debate over whether media should ID private individuals spreading misinformation — A modified video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that started circulating recently—with the vocal track slowed down to make her appear drunk …

Discussion: New York Magazine, @standbyme2018, @mantzarlis, @bostonjoan, @glennf, @mathewi, National Review and Techdirt

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
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