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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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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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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Netflix says it has agreed to acquire the entire Roald Dahl Story Company catalog, expanding on a three-year deal to make animated shows, for an undisclosed sum
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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, @amir, @edmundlee, @mickimaynard, @iankar_, @mickimaynard, @lucas_shaw, Awful Announcing, Front Office Sports and The Wrap
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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@1br0wn and @rasmus_kleis
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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About Facebook and The Hill
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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@getmatterapp, @jordannovet, @lainnafader, @dlberes, @pierce, @shiraovide and @navalang
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook says Apple's ATT changes will continue to cause headwinds in Q3 and reveals it under-reported iOS web conversions by 15% on average — Facebook said Wednesday that changes to Apple's new privacy terms will continue to cause headwinds for its ads business in the third quarter.
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Facebook, @sarafischer, @cmikulin, @grahammudd, @chrismartin17, @glynmoody, @sarthakgh, @eric_seufert, @lagana, @madelineashby, @sarafischer, Social Media Today, Reuters, 9to5Mac and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
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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TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Google and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News will phase out the name CBSN for its news streaming service later this year as it brings its broadcast and digital efforts under the CBS News brand — CBSN represented the first effort by one of the traditional broadcast networks to get into the news streaming game, and its name was meant to evoke digital concepts.
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.
Discussion:
The Indian Express, TorrentFreak and The Hill
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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Talking Biz News, @kurtgessler, @emilyjnicolle, @terronk, @terronk, @lewis_crofts, @x0rz, @chrishardie, @juddlegum, Gizmodo, @kyle_ocker, @abbyfuller, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, The Week, iMore and Insider, more at Techmeme »
Corin Faife / The Markup:
Analysis: Facebook appears to be adding code to interfere with automated data collection of News Feed posts by journalists and researchers — The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform
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Platformer, New York Times, @beep, @mims, @marshablackburn, @mattblaze, @tonyromm, @juliaangwin, @lauraedelson2, @suryamattu, @corintxt, Engadget and Gizmodo
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