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Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers:
Instagram appears to be working on a feature that lets Live creators add moderators to their streams — Early last month, Instagram announced two new features for Live creators — Live Scheduling and Practice Mode. The features aim to help make life easier for creators on the platform …
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Instagram tests paying $10,000+ bonuses to select Reels creators, as part of a program announced in July — Instagram really wants you to post Reels — they'll even pay you up to $10,000 for one, if you're lucky. — As TikTok surpasses the 1 billion monthly active users mark …
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Myanmar court sentences US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison; he has been detained since May and faces two more charges in another court — - A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty …
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Taylor Swift releases a new copy of 2012's Red, the second album she has re-recorded to reclaim songs from investors holding rights to her original masters — Campaign to re-record old songs undercuts deal that acquired US musician's hit catalogue — When tussling with his record company in the 1990s …
New York Times:
Documents show Project Veritas consulted lawyers to gauge how far beyond standard reporting it could go before breaking laws like the Espionage Act — Documents show how the conservative group worked with lawyers to gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices could go before running afoul of federal laws.
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Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Frndly TV, an online service that offers a skinny bundle with 30 family-focused live TV channels for $6.99/month and has 500,000+ subscribers — Started in 2019 by former Dish executives, Frndly TV has more than 500,000 subscribers — An internet-TV upstart catering …
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Financial Times:
Axel Springer CEO says he wants to force disclosure of sexual relationships between managers and subordinates following Bild scandal — German media group wants stricter rules in line with critical US market — German publishing giant Axel Springer plans to require its nearly 16,000 employees …
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Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Interview with Sam Lessin and YouTuber Marina Mogilko about a $1.7M investment in her, in exchange for 5% of her creator-related earnings for the next 30 years — She gets $1.7 million. Sam Lessin's venture firm gets 5% of her creator earnings for 30 years. “it's def not indentured servitude,” he says.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
WaPo corrects and removes portions of two articles from 2017 and 2019 that identified a Belarusian American businessman as a key source of the Steele dossier — The Washington Post on Friday took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles …
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Storm Lake, a documentary about a local newspaper in an Iowa town with about 10,000 residents, premieres on PBS on November 15 — A documentary about the Storm Lake Times airs on PBS next week — One day, when they knew they'd be filming late, Beth Levison and Jerry Risius told their film crew …
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Facebook rolls out new shopping features, including Shops in Groups, product recommendations in the News Feed, and a test of Live Shopping for Creators — Facebook announced today that it's rolling out new shopping features: Shops in Groups, product recommendations and a test of Live Shopping for Creators.
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Amazon will let Prime users on iOS share video clips up to 30 seconds long for some of its content — You can now help Amazon with its marketing if you have iOS — Amazon has announced that it'll let you easily share video clips showing up to 30 seconds of some of its Prime Video content, right from its iPhone app.
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