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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Facebook to shut down Trending and is testing new features like a breaking news label for publishers, a Today In section, and a News Video in Watch section — NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is shutting down its ill-fated “trending” news section after four years, a company executive told The Associated Press.
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Ned Berke / Center for Cooperative Media:
Facebook's plans to manage promoted political content: a machine learning classifier begins June 6 and will scan text and images for terms related to politics — Facebook announced on May 24 that any Facebook Page promoting political content on the platform will need to follow the platform's rules for …
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Facebook's new promoted content rules block some ads from Vice, Newsmax, others, classifying ads as political and requiring advertiser verification via mail — 'Everything we've tried to do in the past couple days has just been shut down,' says one publisher
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Dan Rys / Billboard:
Spotify updates its hateful content and conduct policy, says it will no longer use the provision that led to removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from playlists — Three weeks after Spotify announced a new policy regarding hate content and hateful conduct on its service …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
While BuzzFeed's audience for lifestyle content is large, its news unit drove its first two deals with Netflix and Hulu as it works to find revenue beyond ads — BuzzFeed has built a sizable audience on YouTube and Facebook with its entertainment and lifestyle content.
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The Daily Beast:
Tracing Maria Bartiromo's shift from fierce financial journalist at CNBC to pro-Trump Fox anchor whose ratings soared as her embrace of Trumpism progressed — “President Obama politicized all of his agencies: the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the CIA—they were all involved in trying to take down Donald Trump."
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Joy Reid apologizes for old posts on the blog she started in 2005: “I'm sorry for the collateral damage and pain” — Problems piling up at NBC — After months of scrutiny and questions surrounding her now-shuttered blog, MSNBC Joy Reid offered an unconditional apology on Friday …
Rebecca Keegan / Vanity Fair:
Columnist Nikki Finke plans to return to the web, first by tweeting election commentary before launching a new politics focused website — The once feared Hollywood columnist is training her eye on politics. — Like many Democrats, Nikki Finke spent Election Night 2016 in an emotional fetal position.
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Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News:
Wikia, co-founded by Jimmy Wales in 2004 and now best known for its Fandom platform, raises $106M in new equity funding, SEC filing shows — In the world of social media and community participation, wikis are a seemingly ideal way to build a knowledge base and share information.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu announces a major business reorganization; Chief Content Officer Joel Stillerman and two VPs are leaving, and Dan Phillips, formerly of TiVo, joins as CTO — On the heels of Hulu's news of its growing live TV business, which has now reached 800,000 subscribers, the streaming service today announced …
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Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Roseanne's comments received 16 times the coverage of a new study that estimates Hurricane Maria toll at ~4,654 deaths, a neglect symptomatic of systemic racism — For those who argue that the media has misplaced priorities when it comes to coverage choices, this week has provided a case study to support their position.
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Kriston Capps / CityLab:
Study of 1,266 US counties from 1996-2015 finds government costs in cities increase when local newspaper close and can no longer act as watchdogs — When local newspapers shut their doors, communities lose out. People and their stories can't find coverage. Politicos take liberties when it's nobody's job to hold them accountable.
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