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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Not only does the “social media summit” empower pro-Trump influencers to cry censorship, it may also be a political tool to prevent enforcement of content rules — Trolling on the internet was once a thankless pastime. Make edgy jokes on the right message board …
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Ex-Vanity Fair writer backs up Vicky Ward, who claims Graydon Carter cut accusations by women from an Epstein profile; Carter: Ward lacked on-the-record sources — Having seen my own articles nipped and tucked and altered for reasons that seemed to have nothing to do with journalism …
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Poynter, Washington Post, New York Times, @clarajeffery, @petekeeley, @fdwilkinson, @moorehn, @lazybastid, @akstanwyck, @markberman, @stevebattaglio, @beccamford, @abcarianlat, @mattmitovich, @davidfolkenflik, @morningedition, @albardach, @eriqgardner, @katierosman, Vanity Fair and bookforum.com
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
US podcast network competitors Stitcher and Wondery team up to launch Podfront, a joint podcast platform hosting over 300 podcasts, in the UK — There's more than one way to expand overseas. U.S. podcast network competitors Stitcher and Wondery have decided to pair up to take on the U.K …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
YouTube to require those submitting manual copyright claims to give timestamps of where in a video infringing content appears, making creator responses easier — YouTube is updating the way it handles manual copyright claims with changes that should make them much less of a headache for video creators.
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YouTube Creator Blog and Variety
Hadas Gold / CNN:
The UK and Canada are giving $4M+ to a new global media defense fund, to be administered by UNESCO, to support, train, and provide legal help for journalists — London (CNN Business)The United Kingdom and Canada are together giving more than $4 million to a new global media defense fund.
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Press Gazette, Press Gazette, @cnni and @jeffjarvis
Rob Arthur / VICE:
4chan, with its ~20M monthly visitors, has had a 40% spike in hate speech since 2015 according to analysis of 1M+ comments on the site — On 4chan you'll find anime, porn, and sports chatter. You'll also find an endless stream of racist threats, stomach-churning memes, and misogynistic vitriol …
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@no_little_plans, @donie, @danieljkelley, @christianjbdev, @no_little_plans and Boing Boing
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon Music Unlimited's subscribers grew ~70% in the past year, compared to ~25% for Spotify; in April Amazon had 32M+ music subscribers in total — Amazon is adding subscribers to its music-streaming service at a faster rate than rivals such as Spotify, Apple and Google …
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Music Ally, more at Techmeme »
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
YouTube appears to have blocked some popular YouTube-to-MP3 ripping sites; music labels have taken action against them before and asked YouTube to do the same — Several stream-ripping sites have been unable to download and convert files from YouTube starting a few hours ago.
Discussion:
Plagiarism Today and hypebot
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Survey of 1,660 US 18- to 34-year-olds finds 88% access news at least once per week, 53% once a day, but say they are often not covered accurately — A Knight Foundation survey of 1,660 18- to 34-year-olds, conducted by the University of Chicago's NORC, finds that young adults …
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@knightfdn, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Max Willens / Digiday:
As video streaming wars heat up, publishers increase revenue with significant affiliate commissions they earn by driving signups to those services — The battle of streaming video has only just begun, but publishers are cashing in thanks to affiliate links.
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In a 3-2 party-line vote, the Republican-controlled FCC votes to ease rules governing children's programming broadcasts — In a 3-2 party-line vote, the Republican-controlled FCC voted Wednesday to ease rules governing children's programming broadcasts. — The move, which had been widely expected …
Jonah Weiner / New York Times:
An in-depth look at the changing TV landscape as users shift towards consuming media online, pitting old companies like HBO against new companies like Netflix — In their rush to match Netflix, competitors like HBO, Hulu and Amazon are ordering a slew of content — ushering out the age of …