Mediagazer: Facebook faces continuing calls for regulation of microtargeted ads in US and Europe after probes of Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica data use (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

12:55 AM ET, August 20, 2018

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Natasha Singer / New York Times:

Facebook faces continuing calls for regulation of microtargeted ads in US and Europe after probes of Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica data use — Facebook has made a mint by enabling advertisers to identify and reach the very people most likely to react to their messages.

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Ian Sherr / CNET:

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Mehreen Khan / Financial Times:

Source: EU is drafting regulations to impose fines on social media platforms if they do not remove material flagged as terrorist content within an hour — Brussels plans to force companies including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to identify and delete online terrorist propaganda and extremist violence or face the threat of fines.

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Sonam Rai / Reuters:

Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, files for a $300M IPO on Nasdaq and says it had 32.1M MAUs in the last quarter — (Reuters) - Chinese content aggregator Qutoutiao Inc, which is backed by technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, filed for an initial public offering …

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Mel, an independent men's magazine bankrolled by Unilever, may represent a new, if precarious, model for media as it grows, slowly but consistently — “Mel” is leaving Medium and trying to grow to new heights. Does this Unilever-owned brand's publication present a model for branded content that doesn't suck?

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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

Charter Spectrum plans to launch a 24-hour local news channel for greater LA in November, specializing in “hyper-local” coverage of positive community issues — Local TV news has settled into a familiar routine: a pingpong of live shots with reporters standing near the scene of a crime …

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

Researchers find fewer third-party cookies on 200+ EU news sites post-GDPR; sites load 27% fewer cookies for optimization and 14% fewer for ads — Some third-party cookies were still present, of course. But there was a decrease in third-party content loaded from social media platforms and from content recommendation widgets.

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Emily Schultheis / The Atlantic:

German broadcaster ZDF shows how to handle the far-right by asking actual policy questions that are equally or even more important to voters than immigration — A lesson from Germany — BERLIN—What happens when you do a prime-time interview with a far-right leader—but don't ask them anything about refugees?

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Christopher Barca / Queens Chronicle:

Ocasio-Cortez campaign says she was “mobbed” by reporters at a Bronx community meeting, leading to a press ban for two listening tour stops — Media was barred after reporters ‘mobbed’ her at an earlier event — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday that stops on her …

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Bloomberg:

Source: Amazon is working on a DVR that will record live TV, wirelessly connect to Fire TV boxes, and stream the video to smartphones — - Box would record live TV and stream that video to smartphones — Device competes with offerings from TiVo, Dish's Slingbox

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