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Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M every day to users who create the top Snaps through 2020 — After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within …
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Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently — Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company's bottom line.

HuffPost India has shut down and all of its content seems to have been deleted — Today is @huffpostIndia's last day. Pound for pound, story for story, reporter for reporter, this is the greatest newsroom I have worked for; (and I still can't quite believe I had the privilege to lead) Thank you everyone for reading our stories and supporting our journalism
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WarnerMedia releasing Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max alongside theaters signals the importance of streaming to studios and represents an emerging industry norm — The announcement that “Wonder Woman 1984” will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day is the clearest sign …
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As more writers join Substack, subscription fatigue and the pressure to deliver continuous value to paying readers may push many back to traditional pubs — Plus: The threat of blogs, the balkanization of social media, and a new record for America's mayor. — HAS there ever been a worse year than 2020?
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Analysis: Facebook and Instagram ads appear to be reaching a saturation point after the number of ads served rose by a quarterly average of ~30% YoY since Q3'15 — Spending big money to make big money in the ad business may no longer be on the table inside Facebook's network
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Trump's clear election loss has widened the split in the right-wing online information ecosystem between those that choose reality and those that choose Trump — When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury.
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Nonprofit ad group Ad Council is planning a $50M campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccines to skeptical Americans, after a similar polio campaign in the 1950s — The nonprofit marketing group led a polio vaccine campaign in the 1950s. Now it is working on a $50 million ad blitz to counter concerns about coming treatments.
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Walt Disney Television CFO and president of business operations Ravi Ahuja is stepping down — Ravi Ahuja, who is president of business operations and chief financial officer at Walt Disney Television, is stepping down. — Ahuja, who was formerly CFO of Fox Networks Group, took the position after Disney's acquisition of Fox.
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Netflix says it will expand its footprint in New Mexico's ABQ Studios and pledges to spend an additional $1B on production there — Netflix is expanding its footprint in New Mexico, announcing Monday that it is expanding ABQ Studios and pledging an additional $1 billion in production spending there.
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The Atlantic partners with WNYC to launch a longform podcast The Experiment in January about the myths and ideas underpinning the US as a nation — Launching in January, the weekly show will be hosted by Julia Longoria — As a polarized country faces a chaotic transition of presidential power …
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Apple now allows up to 10 different active offers per in-app subscription, allowing publishers to offer targeted discounts through their iPhone and iPad apps — Want to offer a special introductory rate for students and educators? Superfans of your local football team?
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