Mediagazer: Signal says Facebook shut down its ad account over an Instagram ad campaign that showed the user data Facebook used in targeting the ads (Shoshana Wodinsky/Gizmodo)

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Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules — The Board has upheld Facebook's decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump's access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account.

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After teasing a new social media platform, Trump debuts a new section on his website that's effectively a blog — Former President Donald Trump launched a new blog Tuesday to get his message out to users, a task that's been complicated by his bans from Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms.

Katharine Viner / The Guardian:

On the Guardian's 200th anniversary, its EIC lays out her vision for the newspaper in its third century and what role media can play in a post-pandemic world — On the Guardian's 200th anniversary, our editor-in-chief sets out how media can help rebuild a better world beyond Covid

Edmund Lee / New York Times:

NYT added 301K digital subscribers in Q1, the slowest gain in over a year, for a total of 6.9M digital subs and 7.8M total subs, with profit up 54% YoY to $68M — The publisher added 301,000 digital subscribers for the first quarter, the slowest gain in over a year. Profits jumped, beating Wall Street expectations.

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Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo:

Signal says Facebook shut down its ad account over an Instagram ad campaign that showed the user data Facebook used in targeting the ads — A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former's ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday.

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:

Scroll's 13-person team will work on integrating the product into a Twitter subscription service; a Twitter team hopes to build the best of Nuzzel into Twitter — But we have bad news. The acquisition means that the handy news aggregator Nuzzel will be shut down.

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6 — The Nuzzel email service is winding down and the future of Scroll is uncertain — Twitter's acquisition spree continues today with Scroll …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter opens Spaces, its live audio feature, to anyone with 600+ followers and will allow creators to co-host and sell tickets to live events on Spaces

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Larry McShane / New York Daily News:

A New York Daily News reporter asks for a committed New York City owner to rescue the newspaper from “visiting vulture” Alden Global Capital — Like any good tabloid headline, it's simple, snappy and succinct: DAILY NEWS NEEDS NEW OWNER. — And not just any owner: a New York owner …

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Brad Stone / Bloomberg:

How Jeff Bezos beat the National Enquirer by casting himself as a sympathetic defender of the press fighting a political conspiracy by AMI and Trump's allies — When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire.

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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:

Profile of MrBeast, the most subscribed YouTuber in the US, who took a bumpy road to fame through stunt philanthropy, as he branches out into other businesses — Jimmy Donaldson, 22, is out to become the Elon Musk of online creators. — Jimmy Donaldson, 22, a YouTube megastar better known as Mr. Beast …

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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:

Netflix will release upcoming zombie thriller Army of the Dead at 200 Cinemark locations before streaming debut, its first wide release at a major theater chain — Netflix and movie theaters are finally playing nice — and all it took was a global pandemic to turn these antagonists into friends.

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Damien Wilde / 9to5Google:

YouTube says Shorts, its TikTok rival, will roll out to all US-based creators next week, after testing in beta in March — YouTube is vigorously pushing Shorts with the TikTok short-form video competitor within the main platform now available and rolling out to all US-based creators.

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