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Max Willens / Digiday:
Facebook to hire a small team of journalists to curate a Top News section in its upcoming news tab, which it will begin testing in the US by the end of October — Facebook famously got rid of its “trending topics” editorial team back in 2018. Now, it's again hiring editors — just don't expect “trending 2.0.”
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook releases first findings from a conservative bias audit, says initial findings influenced policy changes like creation of a content oversight board — Facebook will release the findings of a roughly year-long conservative bias audit Tuesday, along with changes to its advertising policies as a result, executives tell Axios.
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Ethan Zuckerman / My heart's in Accra:
Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, says he plans to leave the MIT Media Lab in May 2020 due to the lab's ties to Jeffrey Epstein — A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that implicate Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky in Jeffrey Epstein's horrific crimes.
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BostonGlobe.com, Politico, @antonioregalado, @annanowo, @jkbjournalist, @sdkstl, @jeffjarvis, @mclneuro, @heerjeet, @jeffjarvis, @amymaxmen, @pinboard, @sdkstl, @hunterwalk, @dylanmatt, @newley, @page88, @cindygallop and VentureBeat
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Brian Karem, Playboy's White House correspondent and a CNN contributor, files a lawsuit against the White House, seeking restoration of his press pass — Playboy White House correspondent Brian Karem on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the White House after his credentials were suspended for a month.
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Washington Post, Politico, @farhip, @thehill, @briankarem, Mediaite, @briankarem, Washington Post, Fox News, @boutrousted, CNN and The Wrap
NBC News:
How The Epoch Times, driven by ties to Falun Gong, became a part of Trump's 2020 strategy by spending big on pro-Trump Facebook ads and peddling conspiracies — Started almost two decades ago with a stated mission to “provide information to Chinese communities to help immigrants assimilate …
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Sources: to satisfy regulators, YouTube officials are finalizing plans to end targeted advertisements on videos kids are likely to watch — - The solution could impact ad sales for the video giant — Groups that complained to regulators aren't satisfied by fix
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Digital TV Europe, @alistairmbarr, @mmasnick, @hshaban, @josheidelson, Business Insider, Variety and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg:
Profile of The Athletic, which now has 400+ editorial staffers and expects to have ~1M subscribers by 2020; source: a funding in May valued it at about $500M — Alex Mather would like you to know that he loves newspapers. He's loved them since he was a kid growing up in Philadelphia.
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@daveambrose, @bw, @robsondan, @eaamalyon, @fichtenbaum and @craigcustance
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
How companies like McDonald's and Facebook use podcasts, such as Gizmodo-produced The Sauce, as subtle brand-building efforts meant to entertain and persuade — With podcasts rising in popularity, it's no surprise that companies are producing their own. What's more surprising is that people are actually listening to them.
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@yaffebellany, more at Techmeme »
Pat Caldwell / Malheur Enterprise:
Malheur County officials in Oregon request a criminal investigation into The Malheur Enterprise reporters over after-hours phone calls and emails to officials — The calls come after investigative reports about county economic development projects — UPDATE: A comment from a sheriff's commander …
Han Zhang / New Yorker:
A look at College Daily, a nationalistic Chinese news site producing viral content for Chinese students living overseas, with 1M+ readers a day mostly on WeChat — On a Monday morning in February, members of the staff of College Daily, an online Chinese-language publication for Chinese students living …
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@johnny_observe, @ks1729, @ariahychen, @jessicadrun and Talking Biz News
Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News:
Pluto TV partners with NFL to create The NFL Channel, which will show highlights and full reels of classic games and recaps of old seasons — The NFL Channel will “celebrate seasons past” with season recaps, classic games and archival episodes of “Hard Knocks”
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Broadcasting & Cable and The Streamable
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple Music launches a new chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 50, powered by Shazam data and featuring songs trending in the US and 10+ other countries — Apple continues to make use of Shazam, the music recognition app it acquired for $400 million in 2018. Earlier this month …
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@mcwm, Apple Music and Variety, more at Techmeme »
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