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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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@michellemanafy, New York Times and About Facebook, more at Techmeme »
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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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, @richlightshed and @pkafka
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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@rasmus_kleis and @1br0wn, more at Techmeme »
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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New York Post and The White House
Washington Post:
Washington Post launches Help Desk, using stories, videos, and other formats to offer tech advice, as part of a major expansion of its technology team — The Washington Post today announced the latest major investment in its fast-growing technology team, creating a dedicated destination …
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@yunheekim22
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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@mlevenson, The Indian Express, TorrentFreak 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, The Guardian and Variety
The Information:
Sources: The Athletic has hired an investment bank to find a buyer at a price of $750M or more, though the outlet could still raise money instead of selling — If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. — That appears to be the motto of The Athletic in its efforts to sell itself.
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@anthony, @mickimaynard, @mickimaynard, @iankar_, @lucas_shaw, @amir, @edmundlee, Awful Announcing, Front Office Sports and The Wrap
David Pierce / Protocol:
Read-later apps, pioneered by Instapaper and Pocket, are having a resurgence led by Matter, Upnext, and others, which improve discoverability and other features — The internet, as a reading experience, is mostly terrible. The heavy pages riddled with ads and trackers, the unexpected pop-ups …
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The Muffin por Mauricio …, @jordannovet, @lainnafader, @getmatterapp, @dlberes, @pierce, @shiraovide and @navalang
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Leaked email: Tim Cook says recent leakers of info about Apple products and internal meetings “do not belong here” and the company is tracking them down — The CEO says the company is doing everything in its power to track down workers — Tim Cook sent an email …
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Michael Crider / Android Police:
YouTube is testing letting Premium subscribers download videos from its desktop site through October 19 — Downloading content for playback later is most useful on mobile, where your connection quality is determined by your location. But there are plenty of us whose home connection isn't so great either …
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@eposvox, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Google and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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