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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
FTC announces a $5B fine against Facebook for repeated privacy violations as part of a settlement that requires federal oversight of its business practices — The settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook ends a 16-month probe that began after revelations of the tech giant's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica
Om Malik:
Media companies keep playing a blame game, pointing to tech companies for their failures, but sales execs focused on short-term thinking should take the blame — Earlier this week, the New York Post reported that the cover of the July 29th issue of Time magazine, which celebrates …
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:
Interviews, including with the dev who led the team behind the retweet button, discuss the power of retweets to drive extreme content and spread misinformation — Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter's retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day.
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@kantrowitz, @eli_schiff, 9to5Mac, @ericajoy, @noupside, Gizmodo and The Hill, more at Techmeme »
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Jodi Rudoren, a veteran editor and reporter at The New York Times, has been named editor in chief of The Forward, a 122-year-old Jewish publication — The Forward, a 122-year-old Jewish publication, named a new leader of its newsroom on Tuesday, appointing Jodi Rudoren …
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Sasha Koren / Times Open:
NYT R&D debuts The News Provenance Project to explore product design and user-facing tools to make content origins clearer to audiences and fight misinformation — The Times's Research & Development team is exploring ways to make the origins of journalistic content clearer to news audiences.
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The Next Web, @sashak, @dangillmor, CoinDesk and Talking Biz News
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix shed over $24B in value in six days after it reported losing US subscribers for the first time last quarter; market cap at end of Tuesday was $134.5B — The heavy volume of trading over the past nine days suggests many investors are cashing in on their big gains.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
AT&T Q2: 778K net loss in DirecTV, U-verse customers; 168K net DirecTV Now subscriber loss; WarnerMedia revenue up 5.5% YoY to $8.35B, operating income up 10.3% — WarnerMedia was AT&T's fastest-growing division in the second quarter of 2019. But the telco showed ongoing signs of trouble …
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Netflix launches a $2.80 per month mobile-only subscription plan in India, restricted to one mobile device at 480p standard definition — Netflix has a new plan to win users in India: make its service incredibly cheap. The streaming giant today introduced a lower-priced mobile tier in the country that costs Rs 199 ($2.8) per month.
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Variety, Fast Company and XDA Developers, more at Techmeme »
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:
Profile of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who has donated $100M+ to charities and who champions “vigorous, trustworthy journalism” and women in tech — Craig Newmark is a self-proclaimed nerd and reformed jerk. Now he's putting money behind his politics.
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@craignewmark, @georgiadreid1, @richardjnieva, @blkbaer, @techledes, @jdolcourt and @jasonhiner, more at Techmeme »
Kali Hays / WWD:
Ad spend in print magazines in US fell 18% YoY in 2018, but spend in magazines' digital verticals rose 3.3%; magazine advertisers spent $13.64B total, down 12% — A few editors had success last year online and on YouTube, but digital ad dollars are very, very slow to appear.
Max Willens / Digiday:
Bustle Digital Group acquires Inverse, a science- and geek culture-focused site, which was founded by Bleacher Report cofounder Dave Nemetz and had raised $6M — Bustle Digital Group has made another acquisition in an attempt to grow beyond its female-focused audience.
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American Press Institute, Business Insider, Variety, @benjamingoggin, @davenemetz, @timmulk, @joshuatopolsky, Adweek and Talking Biz News, Thanks:@kerrymflynn
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
The success of Barr's press conferences after the Mueller report shows the power of TV over text; Mueller's hearing could reset the narrative in the same medium — Back in May, Representative Justin Amash of Michigan held a town hall to defend his position as the lone Republican calling …
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