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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Experts say misinformation from “verified” pseudo-OSINT accounts on X, driven by profit and engagement, is destroying the Israel-Hamas war information ecosystem — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch:
[Thread] Media outlets keep slipping up on the Israel-Hamas war because they lack in-house OSINT teams or are wary to rely on such teams for breaking news — Some quick thoughts on why large parts of the mainstream media keep slipping up on Gaza/Israel (and why it was the same at times with Covid): The main reason is a failure to keep pace with modern news gathering techniques, but there's more.
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Kylie Robison / Fortune:
X tests Not A Bot, requiring new, unverified users to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post and interact, in New Zealand and the Philippines — The owner of X, Elon Musk, has long floated the idea of charging users $1 to use the platform.
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Matt Mullenweg:
While X charging users $1/year to stop bots and spam is appealing, the value of manipulating X is so high that millions are likely already being spent to do so — Twitter/X is testing charging users $1/year with the idea that will keep out bots and spam. It's an appealing idea …
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
How Only in Dade, started as an Instagram meme page a decade ago, inadvertently became a Miami local news source, including by using its 1.3M followers' videos — If it's happening in Miami, locals find out about it through Only in Dade, previously a hub for alligator sightings and nightclub antics.
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@fraying@xoxo.zone, @elaheizadi, @davidovalle305, @elaheizadi and @jesusrodriguezb
Jon Porter / The Verge:
YouTube adds a news page to its mobile apps that suggests content from “authoritative sources”, and plans to spend $1.6M to promote creating Shorts news content — YouTube is embracing news from “authoritative sources” at a time when Meta is reluctant to promote hard news …
Katie Notopoulos / MIT Technology Review:
Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse — We're in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it's broken. That's not news.
Theo Wayt / The Information:
Sources: Amazon is paying to make commercials for brands that spend $15K+ to run ads on Freevee and Twitch, part of attempts to build a streaming ad business — Amazon is approaching brands that already buy search ads on its e-commerce website with an unusual pitch: if you buy streaming TV ads, we'll make them for you.
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@theo_wayt and The Desk
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: with ESPN and TNT unwilling to spend $2.6B+/year on NBA rights, the league seeks deals with Amazon, Apple, and more, and offers games in local markets — League aims for jump in fees by luring streamers, from Amazon to Apple, and offering games in local markets
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The Streamable, Barrett Media, Sports Media Watch, Vibe, Insider and The Messenger
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
A book by Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa alleges inappropriate behavior by the NYT's Jesse McKinley, who broke big Cuomo news; the NYT says McKinley was reassigned — New York Times reporter Jesse McKinley helped to bring down New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. In February 2021, McKinley …
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New York Post, Vanity Fair, @tomwatson, @jeremymbarr and The Daily Beast
Justin Smith / Semafor:
On its first anniversary, Semafor has nearly 500,000 subscriptions to its free newsletters and 3M monthly readers “on and off platform” — The News — A year ago, we set out to invent a new global news brand designed to address the three big pain points in global news …
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@prashantrao, Justin B. Smith on LinkedIn, @katie_robertson and Ben Smith on LinkedIn
Chloe Melas / NBC News:
Sources: New Mexico prosecutors intend to re-charge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over the 2021 “Rust” shooting before a grand jury by mid-November — Special prosecutors dismissed this same charge against Baldwin five months, citing “new facts” in the case.
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