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TechCrunch:
Many large websites went down Tuesday, including Amazon, Twitch, BBC, NYT, Spotify, Reddit, and FT, due to an issue at the Fastly CDN, which has now been fixed — Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal …
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Thomas Grove / Wall Street Journal:
Russia has been pressuring social media platforms like YouTube and Twitter to remove anti-government content and police its critics, and it seems to be working — Kremlin uses Twitter and other platforms to advance its goals overseas, but is now trying to prevent its opponents from using the same tools
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@mattnavarra
Leonie Chao-Fong / The Independent:
After tweeting a racist comment about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's daughter, Daily Telegraph columnist Julie Burchill says she was fired by the newspaper — 'It's been a lovely five years' the columnist posted on Facebook — Newspaper columnist Julie Burchill says he has been “sacked” …
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@rufustsuperfly, @scalesilver49, @jjyabbas, @scobie, @scobie and @scobie
Haaretz:
Israel's US ambassador met with AP execs and said Israel is willing to help AP rebuild offices in Gaza, after an Israeli airstrike destroyed AP's offices in May — Gilad Erdan met with top officials at the news agency ‘to restore the relations’ following a strike that destroyed a Gaza tower used by media organizations.
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Fox News, The Hill, The Times of Israel, Al Arabiya, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold and Raw Story
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Book excerpt: how Fox News became the Trump White House in exile post-election, as Fox moved to the right and gave viewers false hope to fix falling ratings — This article is adapted from the new edition of “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth,” which was published in paperback on Tuesday.
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@cnn, @brianstelter, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu and @brianstelter
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired:
As Twitch turns 10, a look at how the service pioneered the patronage system that is prevalent across the internet's creator economy today — The livestreaming platform for gamers helped pioneer the patronage systems that prop up so much of the internet today.
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New York Times, @cecianasta, @xoxogossipgita and @cecianasta, more at Techmeme »
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
PwC survey: of time spent watching streaming video in 2020, people in the US spent 62% of their time on subscription-based and 32% on ad-supported services — Ad-supported streaming services have some catching up to do. Subscription-based streaming services, which are largely ad-free …
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The Wrap
FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight launches an interactive tool to evaluate its major forecasts in politics and sports from 2008 onwards and plans to update forecasts as evaluated — Forecasts have always been a core part of FiveThirtyEight's mission. They force us (and you) to think about the world probabilistically, rather than in absolutes.
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@mattgrossmann
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
10-month-old startup Column offers local governments self-service placement for public notices via WaPo, McClatchy, Ogden, and eight state press associations — Column, a digital startup, aims to improve the placement process for public notices, which remain a reliable revenue stream for newspapers.
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Manhattan Mercury, @newspaperworld and @michellemanafy
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple debuts iCloud+ as part of iCloud plans, featuring Hide My Email, Private Relay for encrypting device traffic and bouncing it through relays, and more — During its WWDC keynote today, Apple unveiled a new iCloud+ service with new features alongside iCloud storage. iCloud+ includes three new features …
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Fast Company, CNET, Adweek, Apple, MacRumors, The Verge, iMore, @stevemoser, @raehodge, @pitts_man, @johnwilander, Reuters, @sdw, @patrickmoorhead, MSPoweruser, CNET and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
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Sara Morrison / Vox:
Apple's iOS 15 to add Mail Privacy Protection to Mail app, which will hide info, like when an email is opened, from senders, impacting newsletters and marketers
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@ranjanxroy, 9to5Mac, What's New in Publishing, The Indian Express, @adweek, @saramorrison, Gizmodo and Variety
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Facebook says it will show creators who are using its new tools how much Apple, Google, and others take as a cut of their earnings, through a payout interface — The company will launch a new interface showing how fees affect earnings — Less than two hours before Apple's big Worldwide …
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Gizmodo, Axios, @sarafischer, The Information, @reckless, @mattnavarra, @mhbergen, @glenngabe, @seyitaylor, CNBC, @carnage4life, 9to5Mac, SlashGear and Mark Zuckerberg
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with GM of Axios Local Ted Williams about his plans to replicate the success he had with acquiring The Charlotte Agenda, publishing opinion content, more — “As time goes on, even when you're financially successful in media, the tendency is to do more and more stuff.
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