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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 …
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook is starting to show users which marketing and data companies have your data, how an ad was targeted, and how to opt-out — The new tool tells you how an ad was targeted and which third-party agency or data broker was used. It also links to pages to opt out.
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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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Sources: Verizon quietly sought buyers for Yahoo Finance earlier this year as it revamped its media division, but ended its search recently — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc earlier this year looked for buyers for Yahoo Finance, one of the most popular internet destinations …
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, Techdirt and Variety
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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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK to set up a National Committee for the Safety of Journalists to examine current protections for journalists and how to improve them — Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has announced the UK will establish a National Committee for the Safety of Journalists.
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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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American Press Institute, Press Gazette, @cnni and @jeffjarvis
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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9to5Mac, Music Ally and Music Business Worldwide, more at Techmeme »
Lindsay McKenzie / Inside Higher Ed:
Elsevier ends access to new articles in academic journals for the University of California system amid a long, continuing contract fight — Elsevier this week began revoking the University of California system's journal access — more than six months after the two parties failed to reach agreement …
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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.
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
The News Project's publishing platform, which aims to provide “a news business in a box”, goes live with its first customer, CalMatters — CEO Merrill Brown says he founded The News Project to address one of the big problems in the journalism business: “It costs too much to launch and operate news sites.”
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