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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
CNN contributor and former DHS COS Miles Taylor reveals he is Anonymous, the senior Trump admin official who wrote a NYT column in 2018 and book in 2019 — Mr. Taylor, whose criticisms of President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed article and subsequent book, roiled Washington and infuriated Mr. Trump …
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Roisin O'Connor / The Independent:
Spotify comes under criticism after Joe Rogan interviewed Alex Jones in a three-hour episode of his podcast on Tuesday; Jones was banned from Spotify in 2018 — Jones was banned from Spotify, as well as Facebook, Apple and YouTube, in 2018 — Spotify is under fire after Joe Rogan invited …
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Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News:
Internal email: Spotify defends Joe Rogan interviewing Alex Jones, saying it won't “ban specific individuals from being guests on other people's shows” — In public, Spotify is staying quiet about an appearance by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones yesterday on its flagship podcast …
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Profile of Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy, trust & safety, who sources say led it to a tougher line on speech, including a ban on political ads — On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company's San Francisco roof deck and dug into a problem.
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Burl Gilyard / Twin Cities Business:
Star Tribune abruptly shuts City Pages, a 40-year-old alt weekly in Minneapolis, citing the pandemic and without seeking a buyer — The alt weekly's key advertisers have been hit hard by pandemic. — Minneapolis-based Star Tribune Media Co. announced Wednesday morning that it was abruptly shutting …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Audible adds 100K free podcasts to its catalog, available through the app for all listeners with or without a subscription — It's adding 100,000 podcasts to its catalog — Audible is turning into more of a podcast app. The company announced today that its catalog now contains 100,000 free podcasts …
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Pew Research Center:
Pew: 79% of US adults say news coverage favors one side and 83% blame the unfair coverage on media outlets, not on individual journalists — The November general election is rapidly approaching, with debates raging over how fairly news outlets are covering the candidates and important issues.
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Former music and comedy executives launch Spoken Giants, a royalty administration agency that claims to be the first for spoken-word works including podcasters — Spoken Giants is a new royalty administration agency that claims to be the first of its kind for copyright holders …
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New York Times:
In a Senate hearing on Section 230, Republican senators said tech companies were censoring conservative views; Democrats called the hearing a political sham — Republican senators accused the leaders of Twitter, Facebook and Google of censorship. Democrats denounced that as posturing.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Many of UK's leading news outlets ran articles saying that department store Woolworths was reopening based on a typo-strewn Twitter account run by a 17-year-old — Dozens of news sites ran articles saying chain was back based on a typo-strewn Twitter page — The person who duped …
Reuters:
Italy's antitrust authority to investigate Google for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the online display ad market, following a complaint by IAB Italy — ROME/MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust authority is investigating Alphabet's Google GOOGL.O for alleged abuse of its dominant position …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok says it is working with AP to provide access to an interactive map showing live results for both US federal and state elections in its election guide — TikTok announced this morning it will expand the set of resources provided in its in-app election guide in the U.S. to include direct access …
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