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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
The Drudge Report has been linking to an obscure site filled with plagiarized content from NYT and others, sending ~8M pageviews to the site since November — On Tuesday, New York Times columnist Kara Swisher revealed that a widower sent a personal letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple acquires Martin Scorsese's next film, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro — ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ to be labeled an Apple Original Film — Apple Inc. has nabbed director Martin Scorsese's next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon …
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Apple's acquisition of Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead of a reboot on TV+ signals a strategy shift for the service that had relied on original content — Apple isn't echoing Netflix's strategy, but it's certainly doing something new — Apple is acquiring Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead …
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
After Twitter labeled Trump's tweets, his campaign and Fox News target Twitter's Site Integrity lead Yoel Roth; Twitter says Roth works on manipulation and bots — “No one person at Twitter is responsible for our policies,” a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
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Bloomberg:
After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down”
After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down”
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
In a first, Twitter adds a “Get the facts” label to two Trump tweets with false claims about mail-in voting, which links to a Twitter Moment refuting his claims
In a first, Twitter adds a “Get the facts” label to two Trump tweets with false claims about mail-in voting, which links to a Twitter Moment refuting his claims
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Kathryn Hopkins / WWD:
Hearst is offering free PSA ads to advertisers in Harper's Bazaar, Elle, and Marie Claire, which will also help thicken issues at a time when ads are falling — More than 80 brands have participated, including Chanel, Gucci, Cartier, Carolina Herrera and Unilever.
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
To protect a key Boris Johnson aide caught breaking lockdown rules, his government is deploying Trump's “fake news” screeds under a veneer of British gentility — In early April, Matthew Weaver, a reporter at The Guardian in the UK, received a phone call from a source in Durham …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC's Emily Maitlis says she didn't host Wednesday's Newsnight after being reprimanded for her remarks on Cummings because she'd asked for the night off
BBC's Emily Maitlis says she didn't host Wednesday's Newsnight after being reprimanded for her remarks on Cummings because she'd asked for the night off
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Indiegraf, with funding via Google News Initiative and Facebook Journalism Project, launches as a network of local news sites sharing resources in Canada — What would a newspaper chain look like if it were reimagined for a group of digital, subscriber-funded publications?
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Ludovic Blecher / The Keyword:
Google grants between $5K and $30K to 5,300+ small and medium local newsrooms around the world through its Journalism Emergency Relief Fund — Head of Google News Initiative Innovation — COVID-19 has upended the news industry, hitting local news particularly hard with job losses, furloughs, cutbacks and even closure.
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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Behind the rise of TikTok “cults”, like Step Chickens, which revolve around a single creator and borrow tactics from “comment raid” groups on other platforms — Fandoms are forming around a new kind of influencer: the charismatic cult leader.
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Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
A look at leftist podcasts, like Chapo Trap House, which generates $2M in Patreon subscriptions annually from 36K subscribers, in the wake of Sanders' loss — Chapo Trap House—one of the most popular podcasts of the American far left—took a sharp turn after a devastating Super Tuesday for its preferred candidate, Bernie Sanders.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Instagram says it will now split revenue with creators, sharing 55% of the revenue from IGTV ads and badges on Live, starting with 200 partners next week — And purchasable Badges in Instagram Live — For the first time in its history, Instagram will start sharing revenue with creators through ads …
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
HBO Max launches without being on Roku and Amazon, the two most popular streaming platforms — The latest new streaming service HBO Max bowed with unlimited access to every episode of “Friends,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “Game of Thrones.” But if all you've got is a streaming player from Roku or Amazon, you won't be able to watch.
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Financial Times:
Rising subscriptions help shield NYT and WSJ from worst of pandemic; NYT CEO: notion that its success is crowding out competition is “very strange defeatism” — Rising subscriptions help shield New York Times and Wall Street Journal from worst of pandemic
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