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Rob Price / Business Insider:
Teen Vogue deletes uncritical election security Q&A with Facebook; an inaccurate disclaimer that labeled it as sponsored, added after publication, was removed — - Teen Vogue on Wednesday published and then deleted an uncritical story about Facebook that has prompted widespread bewilderment.
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Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Upcoming video streaming service Quibi will be built for mobile, with very short shows and content that works well in both portrait and landscape mode — What the heck is Quibi? That's the question I've been asking myself over the past year, as the Jeffrey Katzenberg-founded streaming …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Quibi will have 50-60 shows at launch in April, with plans for 175 shows and 8,500 “quick bites” within a year; Meg Whitman expects profitability in 2-10 years — Quibi on Wednesday revealed a new mobile video technique called Turnstyle that allows mobile video consumers …
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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Quibi, which had already raised $1B, says it has raised another $400M from undisclosed investors ahead of its April launch — In a place known for high stakes gambling, tech veteran Meg Whitman says she's feeling even more confident these days about betting on the success of her streaming video start-up Quibi, which launches in April.
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Bloomberg:
IAC to sell CH Media, the parent of CollegeHumor, to the unit's chief creative officer; source says 100 will be laid off, leaving 5-10 employees — - IAC will keep minority stake in slimmed down company — Barry Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp. plans to sell CH Media …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify announces new tools to target podcast ads in real time using user data for its exclusive podcasts — One step closer to becoming a podcast ad network — Spotify is going to start using its copious amounts of user data to run targeted ads inside its exclusive podcasts.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Sun launches a dedicated website for the US, run by ~12 people in NYC, featuring new content and parts of the UK version's entertainment and royal coverage — The Sun, the UK's biggest newsbrand, has officially launched in the US with a website dedicated to publishing news for an American audience.
Will Oremus / OneZero:
Facebook's deepfakes policy is a good move but remains deeply flawed, covering only certain videos created by AI and creating loopholes for misleading “satire” — It's better than nothing — but just barely — Monday, Facebook announced a new policy against “deepfake” videos.
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Washington Post:
Facebook bans deepfakes, but its new policy may not cover simpler forms of deception like with the distorted Pelosi video
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Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
NBCUniversal says it is building One Platform, an all-in-one ad system that merges its TV and digital ad buying capabilities, to be ready by 2020's TV upfronts — More than 300 engineering and platform employees are working on building an all-in-one ad system
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Profile of Fox News' Pete Hegseth, whose military views evolved to mirror Trump; some see opportunism in his shift from views he held as a veterans group leader — The transformation of Pete Hegseth — an Ivy League-educated, decorated Army platoon leader — is a symbol of the Republican Party in the Trump era.
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Twitter suspends accounts that impersonated NY Post reporter Mark Moore and Israeli Haaretz reporter Jack Khoury to push pro-Iranian regime propaganda — It's one of a number of bogus accounts that spread fake news about enemies of the Iranian regime. — Twitter suspended on Wednesday …
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Apple:
Apple says News has over 100M MAUs in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada and Apple Podcasts now has over 800K shows in 155 countries — Apple has marked the close of a historic 2019 for its Services offerings, a year that introduced Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple News+ and Apple Card …
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