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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Facebook details the types of posts that get demoted in News Feed, such as clickbait and spam, but stops short of saying exactly how a demotion works — A high-level look at what gets suppressed by Facebook's algorithm — The way that Facebook controls its News Feed is often controversial and largely opaque to the outside world.
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CNBC, @nicoleperlroth, About Facebook, @michellemanafy and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
The mainstream press, which continues to disregard the gravity of Trump's efforts to overturn democracy, isn't ready for his potential third run — The date was September 23, 2020, and President Donald Trump had just finished delivering a short set of remarks in the White House's briefing room.
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Press Watch, @mattgertz, Washington Post, @brianstelter, @msignorile, @parkermolloy, CNN, @armandondk, @ruthbenghiat, Salon, @out5p0ken, @madisonkittay, @briankarem, Media Matters for America, @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin, @froomkin, @daveweigel, @parkermolloy, @parkermolloy, @brandi_buchman, @parkermolloy, New York Magazine, The Week and USA Today
Martha Muir / Financial Times:
Researchers: as social networks clamp down on disinformation, Russia has begun spreading propaganda in comments sections on news outlets, such as Daily Mail — Online sites test new methods as social media platforms try to scrub their platforms of propaganda
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American Press Institute, @rasmus_kleis and @1br0wn, more at Techmeme »
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Fox News' Tucker Carlson gets more explicit in invoking replacement theory, a white nationalist concept that Lachlan Murdoch previously said Carlson rejected — It's hard to imagine the sort of desperation and fear that would prompt people to abandon their homes and neighborhoods …
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New York Magazine, Insider, Media Matters for America, @pbump, @pbump, @kfile, @bgrueskin, @pbump, @ryanlcooper, @modeledbehavior, The Washington Current, @dangillmor, @nikkimcr and @kimmasters
Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
White House press corps files a formal complaint after a Biden meeting with Boris Johnson ended with questions only from the British press; Psaki blames Johnson — Members of the White House press corps filed a formal complaint after a meeting between President Biden and the British Prime …
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Washington Examiner, Pew Research Center and New York Post
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Critics say the intensity of reporting on Gabrielle Petito's disappearance and death once again highlights that missing people of color get less coverage — Major outlets have highlighted the case of Gabrielle Petito while often ignoring stories about women of color who go missing.
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Washington Post, @alexanderrusso, @stewartcoles, @nightline, @froomkin, @wesleylowery, PolitiFact, @jessienyc, @jeffjarvis, Poynter, @greenfield64, @davidminpdx, @rasmus_kleis, @emarvelous, @curtwoodward, @britnidwrites, @losangelista, @cbsnews, @soledadobrien, @wajahatali, @digiphile, @deliacabe, @alexburnsnyt, @mattzeitlin, @edwhelaneppc, @seungminkim, @melissagomez004, @janellefiona, @mayerjoy, @dslakoffphd, @kerrymflynn, Vanity Fair, The Sun and Insider
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Bob Chapek says Disney plans to get “aggressive” about expanding its sports wagering services, by striking licensing deals with gambling operators through ESPN — The company may be wagering that the line between football and gambling will inevitably be erased.
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@timobrien, @pkafka and @richlightshed
Reuters:
Merger of India's Zee with a domestic Sony unit will create the country's biggest TV player with 27% market share, passing Disney's Star India at 24% — A merger of India's Zee (ZEE.NS) and a domestic unit of Japan's Sony Group Corp (6758.T) will create a television powerhouse to grab …
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Reuters and Business Standard
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google expands its Google TV app beyond the US to 14 countries, including the UK and Germany, and adds an in-app Android TV remote — After leaving its original Android TV remote app to waste for years, Google is finally remedying the situation. Following a false start yesterday …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Q&A with Indian Express Online CEO Sanjay Sindhwani as the paper readies a metered paywall for its main site, which has about 100M+ monthly unique users — Before the Covid-19 crisis shook up the global news industry, Indian Express Online chief executive Sanjay Sindhwani believed …
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
YouTuber Omi in a Hellcat charged by US federal prosecutors with illegally selling copyrighted TV shows and movies, which netted him $30M+ between 2016 and 2019 — A flamboyant YouTuber known as Omi in a Hellcat was charged with illegally selling copyrighted TV shows and movies through an online service, prosecutors said.
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The Indian Express, TorrentFreak, @mlevenson and The Hill
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Netflix paid upwards of £500M to acquire the Roald Dahl Story Company — The children's author's family, who were advised by bankers at Raine, have been paid “a little over” £500m to sell his literary estate to Netflix, Sky News can reveal. — City editor @MarkKleinmanSky
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Financial Times, The Verge, Bookseller News, BBC, @markkleinmansky, @rickybrigante and Variety
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