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Emanuel Maiberg / Motherboard:
Conspiracy video claiming Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg was a crisis actor became the top trending video on YouTube before its removal hours later — A video described as ‘DAVID HOGG THE ACTOR....’ has made the top of the trending section, another example that YouTube has a conspiracy theory problem.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media is laying off 50 employees and offering reassignments to 12 others, with the cuts mainly affecting SB Nation, Curbed, Racked, and video services team — The cuts, which mainly targeted social video teams, were announced by CEO Jim Bankoff on Wednesday morning.
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Financial Times:
Digital media companies like Vice Media, Vox Media, and BuzzFeed are struggling with an uncertain ad market, changes to Facebook's News Feed, and more — Winter has arrived for a new generation of digital media companies with missed revenue targets, an uncertain advertising environment …
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Newsweek:
Newsweek gave 10 pages of free print ads to a New York county where Olivet University was creating a campus, showing more Newsweek-Olivet ties amid DA probe — Note from the Editors: As we were reporting this story, Newsweek Media Group fired Newsweek Editor Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Newsweek Deputy Editor Ross Schneiderman and other employees threatened to resign from the mag after it tried to suppress Olivet story — Several Newsweek staffers threatened to resign earlier this week, accusing the company of attempting to muzzle the publishing of a story further detailing internal turmoil …
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Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
The Atlantic plans to add up to 100 employees to its newsroom over the next twelve months, hiring a mix of writers, editors, and podcast producers, among others — A media company is expanding its newsroom. You read that right. — The Atlantic plans to add as many as 100 employees …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish says its Sling TV service had 2.21M subscribers in Q4 2017, a 47% YoY increase from 1.5M, the first time its broken out the numbers — Sling TV, Dish Network's internet-delivered skinny bundle, stood at 2.21 million subscribers as of the end of last year — the first time the satellite operator …
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Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Twitter suspends accounts for posting false claims about being attacked at Black Panther screenings, after CEO admits site lacks scalable policy on fake news — While “Black Panther” was busy breaking box office records, Twitter trolls were busy inventing bogus stories …
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Paris Martineau / The Outline:
Medium suspends the accounts of alt-right personalities Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and Laura Loomer, after updating policy to tackle disinformation — By far the biggest change made by Medium is the addition of a section called “Related Content,” which reads “We do not allow posts …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Facebook signs music licensing deal with Europe's ICE Services, covering 290K rights holders for music used on Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, and Messenger — Facebook today took its latest step towards making good on paying out royalties to music rightsholders around tracks that are used across its multiple platforms and networks.
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Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
David Glasser, the former President and COO of The Weinstein Co., who was fired last week, will file a lawsuit against TWC and its board members seeking $85M — According to his attorney Eve Wagner, Glasser “was scapegoated by the TWC board of directors,” who are meeting …
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
How a lack of diverse staffs, the hope for access, or a goal of partisan balance may have led reporters to cast John Kelly as a moderating White House force — Last March, in an article describing the various power centers in the Trump administration, I listed then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as part of the “McCain Wing.”
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