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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
YouTube and Facebook remove conspiracy videos claiming Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg was an actor but, in many cases, only after promoting them — - YouTube promoted a video featuring a conspiracy theory claiming that one of the survivors of the school shooting last week in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The outspoken Parkland students inherently understand how to counteract pro-Trump media, stripping conspiracy theorists and critics of power by mocking them — On Monday night, the pro-Trump media set its sights on a new political enemy: young adult survivors of gun violence.
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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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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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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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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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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Roku beats estimates with Q4 revenue of $188.26M, up 28% YoY, as active accounts rose 44% YoY to 19.3M, and predicts 2018 loss of $40M-$55M; stock down 15%+ — Roku had a blowout holiday quarter: The company was able to handily surpass analyst expectations, thanks largely to a big increase of its licensing and advertising revenue.
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Pandora:
Pandora reports mixed Q4 results of $395.3M revenue, up 7% YoY, $97.7M in subscription revenue, up 63% YoY; subscribers reached 5.48M, up 25% YoY; stock up 8%+ — Ad RPM Reaches an All-Time High; Subscription Revenue Grows 63% — Q4 Revenue excluding Australia, New Zealand & Ticketfly was $395.3 million, growing 7% year-over-year
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