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Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Facebook now lets users and Pages limit comments on posts, after a 2019 Australian court ruling that news outlets are liable for comments on their Pages — The new feature to limit comments comes after an Australian court ruling that found news outlets are liable for comments on their pages
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Three video creators say Facebook underpaid them by thousands in ad revenue after it updated monetization tools in January; Facebook blames a “technical issue” — Britain Lockhart never knows what he'll find when he scuba dives for treasure. Neither do his viewers on Facebook who tune in for a surprise reveal.
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Variety:
Netflix is paying $450M for the rights to Knives Out 2 and Knives Out 3, the follow-ups to the 2019 mystery with director Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig — Netflix is plunking down an astounding $450 million for the rights to “Knives Out 2” and “Knives Out 3,” the next two follow-ups to the 2019 murder mystery.
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Lyz / Men Yell at Me:
A nuanced conversation with Talia Lavin about the emotional toll of online harassment, and how journalists can try to keep themselves and their families safer — The first time the online mob came for me was in 2016. I was live-tweeting my caucus experience, which I was writing about for VICE …
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Delia Cai / Deez Links:
Interview with Ann Friedman on jury-rigging a paying newsletter, not feeling like a brand ambassador for Mailchimp, using classifieds for revenue, and more — Within the individual newsletter economy, you can pretty much trace the lineage of any highly curated 'stack back to one of the …
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Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: Vice Media is in advanced talks to merge with 7GC, a SPAC led by tech investor Jack Leeney, after previous talks with Nine Media failed — Vice Media is in advanced talks to merge with 7GC & Co Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company led by tech investor Jack Leeney …
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Aoife White / Bloomberg:
A group of ad-tech companies, including PubMatic, details SWAN, an “anonymous” identifier that lets users control ads they see, as an alternative to web cookies — - SWAN network, backed by PubMatic, others, to launch in summer — Google's FLoC has been criticized by privacy advocates
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google is rolling out FLoC, its alternative to third-party cookies and a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Entertainment group Endeavor, parent of WME and UFC, has filed its prospectus for a possible IPO, disclosing a $625.3M net loss in 2020 with revenue of $3.5B — Endeavor has filed its prospectus for a possible IPO offering later this year, with updated financial disclosures revealing …
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The Wrap, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and Reuters
Nandini Jammi / BRANDED:
How brands like GoDaddy and GoodRx appeared on Steve Bannon's new outlet, illustrating that the way people think about brand safety has outlived its usefulness — Here's what's new with us: — We were interviewed by — Claire was quoted for a piece on publisher branding in AdWeek
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Mike Juang / Ad Age:
Bloomberg Media is developing its own advertising platform, called Bloomberg Iris, joining a growing list of publishers devising in-house solutions — Company joins the ranks of publishers embracing in-house solutions—and snubbing third-parties — Bloomberg Media is developing …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: Fox Corp CEO and executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch has departed Los Angeles and moved back to Australia — Lachlan Murdoch, the Fox Corp. CEO and executive chairman, has departed Los Angeles and returned to Australia with his wife and children, according to three people with ties to the Murdoch family.
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@davidfolkenflik, @brianstelter, @eshap and @npr
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sports media startup Buzzer secures rights to stream short snippets of live action from NHL games and PGA golf on phones for 99 cents apiece — Buzzer has secured rights to stream snippets of NHL games and PGA golf on smartphones — Sports leagues and TV networks are finding …
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@benmullin, @wsj and FierceVideo
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New York Daily News delivered on its pledged pandemic bonuses to management before holding back bonuses for everyone else, citing staffers' efforts to unionize — The New York Daily News on Friday appeared to stiff its journalists out of a modest bonus it had promised them for their hard work during the pandemic.
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@michellemanafy and @helenkennedy
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal is considering pulling its movies from HBO Max and Netflix and keeping future releases for Peacock — Media giant's NBCUniversal division wants to boost its own streaming service, Peacock — Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal is considering pulling its movies …
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