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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Five years later, a deep dive into Gamergate's origins and how conspiracy-fed trolling tactics it took mainstream are now central to post-truth information wars — On August 15, 2014, an angry 20-something ex-boyfriend published a 9,425-word screed and set in motion a series of vile events that changed the way we fight online.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube changes policy: copyright owners will no longer be able to monetize creator videos with very short or unintentional uses of music via its manual tool — YouTube is making a change to its copyright enforcement policies around music used in videos, which may result in an increased number …
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YouTube Creator Blog, The Verge, RAIN News, @ytcreators, @jpw03, @radicalbytes, @dagamesofficial, @susanwojcicki, Engadget, @sk1er_, Tubefilter, Adweek and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
A WaPo story that Epstein's autopsy found multiple breaks in neck bones helped fuel conspiracies, but experts say evidence is consistent with suicidal hangings — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
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Rand Fishkin / SparkToro:
Study from clickstream data company, Jumpshot: for the first time, a majority of all browser-based searches on Google.com resulted in zero-clicks — We've passed a milestone in Google's evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time …
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Knight Foundation:
Survey: Americans are “very” (66%) or “somewhat” (26%) concerned that if a large company bought their local news org, the owners' views would influence coverage — This piece was originally published on Gallup.com on August 15, 2019.
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Nieman Lab, Talking Biz News, Editor & Publisher, The Wrap and Multichannel News
Max Willens / Digiday:
Bustle Digital Group's Elite Daily says its daily Snapchat story reached over 20M unique users last month; Insider's daily story attracted 24M users in February — Elite Daily, the Bustle Digital Group-owned Facebook-centric title, has found success on Snapchat.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The company emerging from a Gannett-GateHouse merger would have a cost savings goal of $300M each year; that's bad for readers, staff, and democracy — For a local journalist, having your newspaper snapped up by the Gannett chain never was a joyful prospect.
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@langloislane and @briannolan1974
Allison Weis / USA Today:
Journalism student explains why she wants to be in the news media despite barriers including unpaid internships, layoffs, low pay, and attacks by Trump — Despite the unpaid internships, low salaries and relentless assaults by our world leaders, the journalism industry isn't dying. It's just changing.
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@carinajulig, @will_potter and @journostuff
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Taking a stricter approach than Netflix and HBO, Disney and Charter team up to combat “account sharing”, amid a new distribution deal for Hulu, ESPN+, Disney+ — Deal with Charter aims to stop account sharing on Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. — Disney and Charter Communications …
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@nitomatta, @jbu3, @jasoninquires, FierceVideo, Fast Company and Charter
Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC fined $395K by the FCC after Jimmy Kimmel Live! used a simulated emergency alert tone three times during a sketch in October 2018 — AMC and Discovery were also hit with fines. — A Jimmy Kimmel Live! bit making fun of President Donald Trump is going to cost ABC $395,000 …
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Rowland Manthorpe / Sky News:
Highly charged Instagram political ads have been shown to UK teens ages 13-17, with most from Conservatives; children's commissioner calls content irresponsible — Hundreds of ads were shown to 13 to 17-year-olds on Facebook and Instagram, most from the Conservatives featuring Boris Johnson.
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@leepatrick0, @rowlsmanthorpe, @digi_ad, @rowlsmanthorpe, @rowlsmanthorpe and @femi_sorry
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Google's Area 120 incubator is testing Fundo, a service for YouTube creators to sell invites to online events, personalized shoutouts to fans, and more — Google's skunkworks lab Area 120 has been quietly testing an events-centric crowdfunding service for YouTubers, Variety has learned.
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