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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Internal report: a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months — A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to …
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New York Times:
The chief White House photographer under Trump planned to publish a book but was preempted by Trump, who published his own book without specific photo credits — The former chief White House photographer made plans to publish a book of Trump photos. The former president had other plans.
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Jon Porter / The Verge:
Google plans to add “highly cited” Search labels for original reporting and press releases, coming “soon” in the US on mobile and “in the coming weeks” globally — And new notices will help searchers check the validity of information
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Daily Wire plans to invest “a minimum of $100M” over three years in kids entertainment, to challenge Disney and its stance on Florida's “Don't Say Gay” bill — The Daily Wire is planning a significant push into kids entertainment, with what it says will be …
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Layla A. Jones / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A look at the legacy of the Eyewitness and Action News local news formats, which originated in Philadelphia and reinforced community of color stereotypes — A MORE PERFECT UNION is a special project from The Philadelphia Inquirer examining the roots of systemic racism through institutions founded in Philadelphia.
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Lauren Forristal / The Streamable:
Hulu's deal with Epix ended on March 23; the 2015 agreement let Hulu offer hundreds of movies from Paramount, MGM, Lionsgate, and several other studios — One of the biggest contributors to Hulu's film library is no longer part of the service. — The Streamable has confirmed that Hulu's deal …
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The New York Times Company:
New York Times announces team dedicated to personalizing the home screen based, in part, on location and reading history — A group of editors joins the Home team to work with Product leaders on a path to providing a more valuable reader experience. Read more from Karron Skog and Emily Withrow.
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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Lawmakers pull a bill proposing to cap Georgia's film and TV tax credits at $900M and make them nontransferable; the state passed out $1.2B in credits last year — The changes, if signed into law, would have capped the amount Georgia hands out in film and TV tax credits at $900 million and make them nontransferable.
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Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal:
WWE is making its first foray into scripted TV with two shows, one for Netflix and the other for NBCUniversal, and partnering with Blumhouse to develop a series — Spanish-language comedy ‘Contras Las Cuerdas’ to debut on Netflix, while wrestling-mogul family drama ‘Pinned’ is in development for NBCU
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William James / Reuters:
The UK sanctions 14 more Russian entities, including RT owner TV-Novosti, Sputnik owner Rossiya Segodnya, RT's managing director, and Sputnik's EIC — Britain on Thursday announced sanctions on 14 more Russian entities and people, including on state media organisations behind RT and Sputnik …
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Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Like HBO Max before it, CNN+ is not yet available on Roku; CNN+ is also not on Android TV, Google TV, TV platforms from Samsung and LG, nor PlayStation and Xbox — Like WarnerMedia's HBO Max before it, its new CNN+ streaming service debuted without app support on Roku, the largest streaming platform.
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Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
Newly named Ofcom chair Michael Grade tells MPs that he will “leave his opinions at the door”, after previously accusing Ofcom staff of being “woke warriors” — The newly announced Ofcom chair has vowed to “leave his opinions at the door” after sharing “strong” …
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