Mediagazer: Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a “mistake” (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a “mistake” — s Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information …

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CNN fires senior producer Teddy Davis, who worked on State of the Union hosted by Jake Tapper, after claims of inappropriate behavior — “The behavior attributed to Mr. Davis does not align with the standards and values of CNN," the network said in a statement.

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Jeff Baenen / Associated Press:

Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion”, says he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” said Wednesday he has been fired …

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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:

BuzzFeed to cut ~100 jobs, mostly business-side roles in its US and UK offices, as it faces a revenue shortfall; President Greg Coleman to step down — CEO Jonah Peretti aims to diversify revenue sources beyond native advertising — Facing a significant revenue shortfall this year …

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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Media companies, from upstarts like BuzzFeed to the NYT, face a correction and must continue to diversify revenue; counting on unlimited VC money spells doom

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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Memo: BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti says the company is restructuring its business operations to help diversify its revenue streams beyond native advertising

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Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Facebook tests a Breaking tag in News Feed with ABC, Verge, Vox, and others, letting publishers use tag for 15 minutes to 6 hours with no ranking impact yet — Facebook is making it easier for people to find actual news in their News Feed. — Facebook will now let some publishers add a …

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Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:

Plex updates DVR with an option to automatically detect and remove commercials from recordings, warns it may take a “long time” and increase CPU usage — Over the weekend Plex updated their DVR fixing bugs and including a new feature. Now with this most recent update …

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