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Ian Sherr / CNET:
Jack Dorsey tries to explain why Twitter ignored rules violations by Infowars for so long, says company waited for others to report violations before acting — Two weeks ago, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and others kicked the harassing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars site off their services.
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Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won't let that happen” — President Donald Trump on Saturday took to Twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating …
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Danielle Wiener-Bronner / CNNMoney:
Netflix recently started testing out promotions for TV episodes and films, which viewers can skip, but stressed it is not adding commercials to the service — How Netflix is everything to everyone — Netflix is setting the record straight: It's not adding commercials.
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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 …
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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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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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
While Boston Globe-led wave of editorials was mostly symbolic, more practical collaboration is needed from joint reporting to rebuffing attacks on 1st Amendment — Last Thursday, in a show of unity, hundreds of American newspapers published editorials celebrating the press as a pillar …
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
New York Times international news editor Sewell Chan is joining the Los Angeles Times as deputy managing editor — Longtime New York Times editor Sewell Chan will be joining the Los Angeles Times as a deputy managing editor, the paper announced on Monday. He will report the the paper's …
Linda Kinstler / The Guardian:
Profile of TripAdvisor, which has become entangled in debates over free speech as it struggles to defend legitimate reviewers against litigious business owners — The world's biggest travel site has turned the industry upside down - but now it is struggling to deal with the same kinds …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The surge in digital misinformation has created new businesses, research disciplines, and newsroom beats focused on studying and combating internet propaganda — A surge of nefarious activity online has created new businesses, research disciplines and newsroom beats focused on studying and combating internet propaganda.
Max Willens / Digiday:
Food site Munchies, owned by Vice and Fremantle Media, signs deal with developer Triple Five Media to create Munchies-branded food court in New Jersey — Munchies is shopping for chefs and restaurants to bake into its newest endeavor: a food court. — The Vice and Fremantle Media co-owned …
Maia Szalavitz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists who write about opioid use focus on the “relatable” white addict who is a victim of big pharma greed and downplay subjects' earlier drug misuse — After Jillian Bauer-Reese created an online collection of opioid recovery stories, she began to get calls for help from reporters.
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