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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Chartbeat: AMP traffic to publishers increased 100% since 2017 as mobile dominates traffic growth; Parse.ly data shows Facebook referral traffic fell to 25.3% — According to new data from Chartbeat, the vast majority of traffic growth publishers are seeing from platforms is now coming from Google AMP …
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Recode, Accelerated Mobile …, Digiday and Marketing Land, more at Techmeme »
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Congressman says office of FCC inspector general, a nonpartisan internal watchdog, is investigating the relationship between Ajit Pai and Sinclair Broadcasting — WASHINGTON — Last April, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, led the charge for his agency …
Adam Rogers / Wired:
A look at the complicated case of Quinn Norton and The New York Times, in which the NYT compounded its apparent lack of due diligence with surrender to the mob — Tuesday afternoon, The New York Times announced it was hiring an opinion writer named Quinn Norton to write about “the power, culture, and consequences of technology.”
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New York Magazine, Washington Post, @fraying, @barrettbrown_, @lpolgreen, @lorenraedej, @ciphergoth, @bydanielvictor and Slate
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
District court judge says using image from tweet in a news story could violate copyright, in a case involving multiple news outlets including Vox Media, Gannett — The defendants including Breitbart, Time, Vox and the Boston Globe warned a loss would “cause a tremendous chilling effect on the core functionality of the web.”
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
New analysis shows 36K tweets from Internet Research Agency linked most often to Breitbart News, then Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle; RT ranked 19th — Russia's disinformation campaign during the 2016 presidential election relied heavily on stories produced by major American news sources …
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Jonathan Albright, Fast Company, @nitashatiku, @ilvestoomas, @profcarroll and @justinhendrix
Brian Dowling / Boston Herald:
Digital First Media has acquired the Boston Herald in a bankruptcy auction with an $11.9M bid, beating out GateHouse Media and Revolution Capital — Digital First Media won the Boston Herald in a five-hour bankruptcy auction with an $11.9million bid that all but settles who will carry …
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BostonGlobe.com, @bobmcgovernjr, WGBH News and Dan Kennedy
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Facebook partners with Lyft, Chase, Save the Children, and others to bolster its Community Help efforts by offering more information on food, transport, shelter — Facebook is amping up its Community Help efforts, now enabling companies like Lyft, Chase, International Medical Corps and Save …
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Facebook, Forbes, Engadget, Android Police, Adweek and CNET, more at Techmeme »
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
UK magazine circulation July-December 2017: Economist up 8% YoY, Fortune EU down 32%, Spectator at all-time high as editor lauds digital for rising print sales — Spectator editor Fraser Nelson has said digital is behind a “renaissance” of print sales, which he said were at an all-time high …
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Coffee House, WWD and One Man & His Blog
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:
How Facebook prioritizing friends' content with many comments led to a post reappearing atop people's News Feed over and over, increasing “engagement” even more — Last Saturday — 12 days ago now — I shared a cringeworthy video on Facebook: a 6-minute clip …
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@oliverdarcy, @katienotopoulos, @annehelen, @dominicholden, @cwarzel and @aahaworth, more at Techmeme »
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Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed:
Reporter's outreach to shooting survivors via Twitter was hindered by accounts falsifying her words and targeting her; Twitter said targeting didn't break rules — “People kept saying, 'Don't talk to her, she's racist,' and it just kept getting worse.” — In the wake of the Florida high …
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@mat, @marxmedia, @harrisalexc, Poynter, @hashtaggriswold and @harrisalexc
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / WWD:
Layoffs hit Condé Nast's Vanity Fair and Glamour, with net cuts eventually to equal about 12 positions at Vanity Fair and 5 at Glamour — Samantha Barry and Radhika Jones are cleaning house. — Condé Nast's new editors in chief are cleaning house.
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Hollywood Reporter, Fashionista, The Wrap and @mlcalderone
BBC:
Facebook complies with demand of Russia's internet censor to remove video by opposition activist Alexei Navalny from Instagram, video remains on YouTube — Instagram has blocked posts in Russia relating to corruption claims made by the country's most prominent opposition leader.
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TechCrunch, Telegraph, Washington Post and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »
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