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Many large websites went down Tuesday, including Amazon, Twitch, BBC, NYT, Spotify, Reddit, and FT, due to an issue at the Fastly CDN, which has now been fixed — Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal …
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As Twitch turns 10, a look at how the service pioneered the patronage system that is prevalent across the internet's creator economy today — The livestreaming platform for gamers helped pioneer the patronage systems that prop up so much of the internet today.
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Russia has been pressuring social media platforms like YouTube and Twitter to remove anti-government content and police its critics, and it seems to be working — Kremlin uses Twitter and other platforms to advance its goals overseas, but is now trying to prevent its opponents from using the same tools
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Apple debuts iCloud+ as part of iCloud plans, featuring Hide My Email, Private Relay for encrypting device traffic and bouncing it through relays, and more — During its WWDC keynote today, Apple unveiled a new iCloud+ service with new features alongside iCloud storage. iCloud+ includes three new features …
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Apple's iOS 15 to add Mail Privacy Protection to Mail app, which will hide info, like when an email is opened, from senders, impacting newsletters and marketers — The next iOS will make it harder for newsletters, marketers, and websites to track you. — Apple announced on Monday …
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Israel's US ambassador met with AP execs and said Israel is willing to help AP rebuild offices in Gaza, after an Israeli airstrike destroyed AP's offices in May — Gilad Erdan met with top officials at the news agency ‘to restore the relations’ following a strike that destroyed a Gaza tower used by media organizations.
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Facebook says it will show creators who are using its new tools how much Apple, Google, and others take as a cut of their earnings, through a payout interface — The company will launch a new interface showing how fees affect earnings — Less than two hours before Apple's big Worldwide …
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FiveThirtyEight launches an interactive tool to evaluate its major forecasts in politics and sports from 2008 onwards and plans to update forecasts as evaluated — Forecasts have always been a core part of FiveThirtyEight's mission. They force us (and you) to think about the world probabilistically, rather than in absolutes.
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10-month-old startup Column offers local governments self-service placement for public notices via WaPo, McClatchy, Ogden, and eight state press associations — Column, a digital startup, aims to improve the placement process for public notices, which remain a reliable revenue stream for newspapers.
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PwC survey: of time spent watching streaming video in 2020, people in the US spent 62% of their time on subscription-based and 32% on ad-supported services — Ad-supported streaming services have some catching up to do. Subscription-based streaming services, which are largely ad-free …
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Q&A with GM of Axios Local Ted Williams about his plans to replicate the success he had with acquiring The Charlotte Agenda, publishing opinion content, more — “As time goes on, even when you're financially successful in media, the tendency is to do more and more stuff.
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@teddyamen, @djtweets, @sarafischer, @niemanreports and Editor and Publisher

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish says Pluto TV ad revenue is expected to cross $1B in Q4 2021 — “Everyone thought we were nuts” when his team first mentioned that figure, Bob Bakish tells an Evercore ISI investor conference. He also forecast an ad-supported version of Paramount+ would end …