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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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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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Ad Age, Poynter, Washington Post, New York Times, Slate, Vanity Fair, New York Times, @moryan, @markberman, @davidfolkenflik, Jezebel, @bryancurtis, @morningedition, @albardach, @lazybastid, @stevebattaglio, @petekeeley, @clarajeffery, @fdwilkinson, @akstanwyck, @beccamford, @abcarianlat, @mattmitovich, @moorehn, @eriqgardner, @katierosman and bookforum.com
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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Facebook, Adweek, TechCrunch, Mashable, Marketing Land, @cwarzel and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Sam Chambers / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Condé Nast has pulled its £234M investment from fashion retail marketplace Farfetch amid mounting losses and management concerns — Condé Nast has dumped its £234m stake in Farfetch amid concerns over how the luxury marketplace is managed.
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New York Post, CityAM, Drapers, Fashion news …, The Fashion Law, The Drum and Folio
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, @cnni and @jeffjarvis
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Reuters:
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 …
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@kenli729
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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@donie, @danieljkelley, @christianjbdev, @oliverdarcy, @no_little_plans, @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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9to5Mac, Music Ally and Music Business Worldwide, more at Techmeme »
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Nielsen says it will start surveying podcast listeners about their consumption habits, including genre preferences and how long they listen to shows — More data on listeners — Nielsen, a company best known for tracking TV shows' popularity, is getting into the podcast data collection business.
Discussion:
Engadget, @ashleyrcarman, @zachthemack and PR Newswire, more at Techmeme »
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces it is rolling out redesigned News results for Search on desktop, making publishers' names more prominent, adding a carousel, and more — Google Search on the desktop web has seen a slew of visual refreshes in recent weeks. The latest is a substantial redesign of the News tab …
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@googlenewsinit and Search Engine Journal
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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Plagiarism Today and hypebot
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