Mediagazer: Former Facebook content moderator sues the company for allegedly failing to protect her and others as they viewed violent videos and images, says it led to PTSD (Motherboard)

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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:

Facebook removes 12+ partisan pages used by fake accounts to spam 30M+ fans with links to LifeZette.com, founded and still partially owned by Laura Ingraham — Facebook has removed over a dozen American hyperpartisan liberal and conservative pages with more than 30 million combined fans …

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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:

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Nicholas Quah / Vulture:

Over 1.4M people downloaded each of the first two episodes of Serial Season 3 within 14 hours of them going online, making it the podcast's biggest debut yet — When Serial returned with its highly anticipated third season last Thursday, dropping two episodes to kick off an ambitious journey …

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Motherboard:

Former Facebook content moderator sues the company for allegedly failing to protect her and others as they viewed violent videos and images, says it led to PTSD — In the class action lawsuit, the woman says that thousands of content moderators are subjected to “highly toxic” content as part of the job.

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Cara Buckley / @caranyt:

110 New York Review of Books contributors sign letter protesting firing of Editor Ian Buruma, claiming it was an “abandonment” of NYRB's central mission — 1/ Just received email of letter from 110 NYRB contributors protesting firing of Ian Buruma “His dismissal in these circumstances strikes us as an abandonment of the central mission of the Review, which is the free exploration of ideas.” pic.twitter.com/XI84Fkwrob

John Williams / New York Times:
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