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Analysis: how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinformation in Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
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@janebsinger, ProPublica, Beyond Search, @jason_kint, @lutherlowe, @craigsilverman, @profcarroll and @craigsilverman


A look at a complaint against The China Project, a US-based news company, alleging it acts as a foreign agent and China influenced its coverage, which it denies — Shannon Van Sant's career neatly tracks the American media's romance and disillusion with China.
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@john_hudson, @limlouisa, @semaforben, The China Project, @aaronmcn, @changxche, @limlouisa and @aadilbrar


The Wire files a complaint against its researcher Devesh Kumar with Delhi Police, a day after police charged its journalists for forgery and other infractions — The complaint has been filed against Devesh Kumar who is allegedly involved in the fabrication of documents and forgery in connection …
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@zoeschiffer, @kevincollier and @film_girl
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The Wire says The Delhi Police searched its office and homes of four editors in relation to a complaint by BJP's Amit Malviya alleging cheating, forgery, more
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@safoorazargar, @heerjeet, @elchaudhry, @seemi_pasha, @suchitrav, @audreytruschke, @priyamvadagopal, @priyashmita, @ghazalawahab, @sundeepdougal, @samar11 and @rasmus_kleis


General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership” — - General Motors is suspending its advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform.
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The Verge, New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Scroll.in, Vibe, Gizmodo, @tomcottonar, Quartz, @cliffschecter, @mayawiley, @radleybalko, Variety, @markos, @jason_kint, @taylorlorenz, Vanity Fair, Insider, The Daily Wire, Gardner Goldsmith, The Hill, @timodc, Reclaim The Net, @newtonmark, @agatha__x, Deadline, @kris_sacrebleu, @tomcoates, @fpwellman, @tweetermeyer, @chiproytx, @mmasnick, @theepurity, @tomaxwell, CNN, The Liberty Daily, Wired and Ad Age, more at Techmeme »


Bloomberg launches Audience Accelerator, its first-party ad platform built using data on its 450,000 subscribers and 5M registered users — Bloomberg Media just turned off third-party ads on its site. But as it shuts the door to open-market programmatic, Bloomberg is opening a first-party data advertising platform.


Peacock signs a deal with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Movies & Mysteries, and Drama, its first such deal — Peacock has closed a pact with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama.
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The Streamable, Next TV, Ad Age, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, Media Play News, The Hollywood Reporter, TVLine, IndieWire and Advanced Television


A US federal district court judge orders Starbucks union organizers in western New York to give Starbucks their messages to journalists; the union has appealed — A federal judge has ordered the organization behind a unionization drive at Starbucks stores in western New York to turn …


Erik Wemple's reassessment of The New York Times firing James Bennet over the Tom Cotton op-ed is part of an effort to rewrite the 2020 civil rights protests — Sometimes, history changes unexpectedly toward the good. And then, powerful people with something to lose try to change it back.
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@katzonearth, @jessesingal, INDIGNITY, @dcwoodruff, @moorehn, @hadleyfreeman, @sivavaid, @sivavaid, @jayrosen_nyu, @kenichiserino, @mattyglesias, Singal-Minded and Media Nation


Chartbeat: in 2022, traffic from Apple News and other aggregators fell to 14% of traffic referred by social, search, and links, down from 18-20% in 2020 — Three years ago, publisher analytics firm Chartbeat saw news aggregators becoming the fastest growing traffic referral source.


The UK's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hires Amber de Botton, the head of UK news at ITV News, as his director of communications — Journalist Amber de Botton takes special adviser role for new prime minister — Rishi Sunak has hired Amber de Botton as his director of communications …
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@sophyridgesky, Daily Mail, @davidyelland, @ayocaesar, @wpb_tris, @ayocaesar, @louishenwood, @ian_fraser, BBC, @supertanskiii, @nw_nicholas, @bethrigby, @alextaylornews, @peston, @wisheart12 and @quiscustodis


Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith will become a senior advisor to Emerson Collective, one of the top local news funding sources, giving $60M+ in grants since 2016 — Evan Smith, the CEO and co-founder of the Texas Tribune, will be a senior advisor to Emerson, which has emerged as one of the top funding sources …
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@semaforben, @peterlattman, @pamelacolloff, @ralstonreports, @evanasmith, @jason_kint, @hodgman and @eramshaw


The Nashville Banner, which served the city for 122 years until 1998, plans to relaunch as a nonprofit news site with Scripps' local TV station as its partner — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In Demetria Kalodimos's office, a motto can be found all over: Real people, true stories.
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@henryrothenberg and MediaPost


Elon Musk's ad-dependent Twitter isn't the global town square democracies need; we need an overlapping ecosystem of smaller publicly owned digital social spaces — This is a moment to choose a different path, inspired by the lessons of thriving offline communities.
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, @caspiancey, @maustermuhle, @anncathrin87, The Daily Wire, MIT Technology Review, @elipariser, @nxthompson, @planetaryinc, @baekdal, @deeptidoshi, @chrisstoecker, @progressntwrk, @asbruckman, @esgarchitect, @josephmenn and @wearenew_public, more at Techmeme »
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Among tech companies, Twitter has been the biggest defender of online free speech, globally; fired head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde drove much of that work
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