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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Twitter says Bloomberg's edited debate video, which included cricket sounds, would likely be labeled manipulated video per its new policy, unlike on Facebook — What's a joke and what's manipulation? — As platforms prepare for the upcoming 2020 election season, Twitter and Facebook …
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Twitter confirms it is testing bright labels beneath lies and misinfo posted by politicians and public figures, and points-based “community badges” for users — A leaked demo features bright red and orange badges for tweets that have been deemed “harmfully misleading.”
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Bloomberg:
Sources: the Trump campaign has bought exclusive nationwide masthead ads on YouTube for days leading up to and on election day; ads may cost up to $1M+ a day — In the immediate run up to the U.S. presidential election and on Election Day, the homepage of YouTube is set to advertise just one candidate: Donald Trump.
Alina Tugend / New York Times:
A look at news literacy programs teaching students in the US how to spot fake news, including Civic Online Reasoning, Center for News Literacy, and Checkology — News literacy instruction is flourishing in the wake of the 2016 election as worries about fake news grow.
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@sheg_stanford and @penamerica
Samantha Cole / VICE:
Reporter Alison Parker's father files a complaint with FTC against YouTube for making the process of removing videos of her 2015 murder “deceptively burdensome” — In August 2015, 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her cameraman, Adam Ward.
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@dataeditor, @motherboard, @jason_koebler, @vice, @samleecole, @motherboard and @samleecole
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS All Access and Showtime have 11M subscribers; Pluto TV had 22.4M MAUs in Q4 2019, up 75% YoY; revenue from all three hit $1.6 billion in 2019 — CBS All Access and Showtime are on track to garner a combined 16 million subscribers by year's end, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish told investors Thursday.
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Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
ViacomCBS to expand CBS All Access with content totaling ~30K episodes of TV and ~1K movies from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount, and others
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
ViacomCBS revenue fell 3% to 6.87M in Q4, its first post-merger quarter, with a net loss of $273M; company anticipates merger savings of $750M, up from $500M
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LightShed Partners, Hollywood Reporter, @saraevans83, The Wrap, Yahoo Entertainment, CNET, The Wrap, Reuters and The Streamable
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired:
Study: the seven most-watched YouTube Gaming channels in January streamed recorded, autoplaying videos promoting cheats that linked to credential-stealing sites — YouTube is littered with bot-driven videos promising big in-game riches—that also try to steal your personal information.
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@cecianasta, @cecianasta, @marzgurl and @eposvox
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Daily Memphian, a Memphis news site which launched in 2018 and generated controversy over its opaque fundraising, paywall, and staffing — It's generated controversy over its fundraising, its paywall, and its staffing. But it's also about as close as a major American city …
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@maiden_memphis, @gteresa, @ldtestino and WKNO
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
In an email to staff, The California Times, which owns LA Times, announces voluntary buyout packages for employees who have worked there for at least two years — New York (CNN Business)The Los Angeles Times is offering its staff voluntary buyouts less than two years after biotech billionaire …
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@cafwu, @cnnbusiness, @kerrymflynn and The Wrap
CNN:
The number of TV shows filmed in NYC has risen from 10 in 2002 to 73 in 2019 thanks to streaming media and a substantial tax credit offered by New York State — New York (CNN Business)On a soundstage near the Brooklyn waterfront, dozens of production staff are gathered around four actors …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
West Virginia's Charleston Gazette-Mail has laid off its executive editor Greg Moore, who says the paper's owner HD Media is eliminating the position — Last fall, the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette-Mail celebrated doubling digital subscriptions. Today, it eliminated the position of the editor who helped make that happen.
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@gregmoorewv, @robertjbyers, @kenwardjr, @scmitchp, @caitycoyne, @johnmcquaid, @poynter, @garyaharki and @kristenhare
Frank Pallotta / CNN:
WarnerMedia says it has reached a distribution deal to add HBO Max to YouTube TV, bringing HBO and Cinemax content to the platform for the first time — New York (CNN Business)WarnerMedia has reached a deal that will bring HBO Max to YouTube TV customers as it tries to promote …
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Fast Company, @lamonicabuzz, @frankpallotta, Multichannel News and Broadcasting & Cable
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