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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a TikTok-like feed of short, curated comedy clips from its content library, on its TV app in select English-speaking countries — Fast Laughs is rolling out to ‘select English-speaking countries’ — Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of comedy clips hand-picked by Netflix, on its TV app.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Conservative Brief, which employs three writers, has become huge on Facebook, surpassing WaPo and NYT, ostensibly by paying large Pages to share its content — Most people have probably never heard of the website Conservative Brief. It employs just three writers and it does not produce any original reporting.
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ofcom plans to take “swift action” in response to UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries' request to review whether RT's news channel license should be suspended — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the Russian-backed RT news channel.
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen expands its Media Impact planning tools, adding streaming services ratings to help advertisers and media buyers plan cross-platform campaigns — The addition aims to help marketers plan campaigns — and signal the industry that the embattled company is adapting to the current landscape.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
AT&T, State Farm, and others join Discovery and Omnicom in testing alternatives for measuring linear TV audiences using Comscore and VideoAmp data — AT&T and State Farm are the latest big advertisers to experiment with new ways of figuring out just who is watching TV - and the commercials that support it.
Kris Holt / Engadget:
LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Podcast Network as a pilot, with shows available on LinkedIn, Apple Podcasts, and other platforms — LinkedIn is delving deeper into the podcast world. It's debuting a podcast network that features in-house shows from the LinkedIn News team as well as programs from industry figures.
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MediaPost, @marshallk, The Daily Dot, The Drum, @kantrowitz and Axios
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
Reddit transparency report: 665K pieces of content were removed for copyright infringement in 2021, up 104%; 2.8K users and 2.6K subreddits were banned — Reddit's latest transparency report reveals that during 2021, Reddit removed 665,898 pieces of content following copyright infringement complaints, up 104% on the previous year.
Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
As China walks a tightrope over the Ukraine crisis, Beijing-linked Horizon News accidentally posts and then deletes rules banning coverage unfavorable to Russia — China did not explicitly endorse Moscow's latest moves toward Ukraine but still recognized on Tuesday what it called Russia's …
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Ed Z / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
Some journalists, guilted by crypto zealots into “being open-minded”, fail their readers by giving the scam-filled crypto industry the benefit of the doubt — Yesterday I had a quasi-viral tweet about how I cannot for the life of me find an explanation as to why Web3 and the blockchain are so inevitably the future.
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@dgolumbia, @edzitron, @edzitron, @walthickey, @dgolumbia, @edzitron, @chronotope and @edzitron
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Roku launches the Advertising Watermark to help advertisers and publishers verify the authenticity of their video ads and defend against “device spoofing” — To reduce advertising fraud in the connected TV (CTV) and streaming businesses, Roku is starting up a new free technology …
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TV Technology, Ad Age, Media Play News, Next TV and MarTech
Variety:
Sources: under Skydance's deal with Apple Studios, Apple promises Skydance at least two fully financed feature films a year, with budgets of up to ~$125M — Nearly a month after it was announced that Apple had landed a slate of live action films from longtime Paramount Pictures partner Skydance …
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AppleInsider and @mattdonnelly
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Study: since May, Facebook labeled only about half the posts promoting 184 climate change denial articles from publishers like Breitbart and Newsmax — Facebook is falling short on its pledge to crack down on climate misinformation, according to a new analysis from a British watchdog group.
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Nieman Lab, Center for Countering …, The Independent, @reuterslegal and @foe_us, more at Techmeme »
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