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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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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Book excerpt: how Fox News became the Trump White House in exile post-election, as Fox moved to the right and gave viewers false hope to fix falling ratings — This article is adapted from the new edition of “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth,” which was published in paperback on Tuesday.
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@brianstelter, @cnn, @brianstelter, @jayrosen_nyu and @jayrosen_nyu
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
To find confidential sources, the government has stomped on the First Amendment again by seeking reporters' phone and email records; DOJ's IG should investigate — The New York Times reporter Adam Goldman might have been exaggerating a bit when he said Sunday that for more than a decade …
Daniella Byck / Washingtonian:
Hunter Walker, formerly Yahoo News' White House correspondent, becomes the first solo writer using Substack to get a “hard pass” to cover the White House — A former White House reporter wants to cover politics in a different way. Is the briefing room the place for that?
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@hunterw, @sree, @columbiajourn, @wakeup2politics, @fightrooskies, @owillis, @hunterw, @columbiaalumnia, @ryanlawler, @martinsfp, @taylorlorenz, @hunterw, @daniellabyck, @seanspicer, @hugolowell and Politico
Thomas Grove / Wall Street Journal:
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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@mattnavarra
Leonie Chao-Fong / The Independent:
After tweeting a racist comment about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's daughter, Daily Telegraph columnist Julie Burchill says she was fired by the newspaper — 'It's been a lovely five years' the columnist posted on Facebook — Newspaper columnist Julie Burchill says he has been “sacked” …
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HuffPost, @scobie, @rufustsuperfly, @scalesilver49, @jjyabbas, @marijeali, @luiseach, @scobie and @scobie
Haaretz:
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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Daily Herald, The Hill, Raw Story, The Times of Israel, Al Arabiya, @hadas_gold, @arielelysegold, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @arielelysegold, @hadas_gold and Fox News
Jeff Tracy / Axios:
MLB and sports betting media company Action Network enter a multi-platform partnership, incorporating betting content and analysis into the MLB landscape — MLB and the Action Network, a sports betting data and analysis site, have entered into a multi-platform content partnership, Axios has learned.
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Action Network and Awful Announcing
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple Music debuts Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio and adds Spatial Audio playlists, says Spatial Audio support is “coming soon” for Android devices — Last month, Apple announced it would soon add lossless audio streaming and Spatial Audio with support for Dolby Atmos to its Apple Music subscription at no extra charge.
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iMore, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint and SlashGear, more at Techmeme »
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired:
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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Insider, New York Times, @cecianasta, @cecianasta and @xoxogossipgita, more at Techmeme »
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
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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Manhattan Mercury, @rickedmonds, @newspaperworld and @michellemanafy
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
NewsGuild files an NLRB complaint saying NYT management illegally discouraged support for the Times Tech Guild, including stopping the use of pro-union avatars — - Complaint filed with NLRB says publisher violated labor law — A New York Times Co. employee union is accusing …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
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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Sara Morrison / Vox:
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
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ScreenRant, 9to5Mac, What's New in Publishing, @gavinsbaker, The Indian Express, @ranjanxroy, @adweek, @saramorrison, Gizmodo and Variety
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