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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Facebook details the types of posts that get demoted in News Feed, such as clickbait and spam, but stops short of saying exactly how a demotion works — A high-level look at what gets suppressed by Facebook's algorithm — The way that Facebook controls its News Feed is often controversial and largely opaque to the outside world.
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Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
The mainstream press, which continues to disregard the gravity of Trump's efforts to overturn democracy, isn't ready for his potential third run — The date was September 23, 2020, and President Donald Trump had just finished delivering a short set of remarks in the White House's briefing room.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Critics say the intensity of reporting on Gabrielle Petito's disappearance and death once again highlights that missing people of color get less coverage — Major outlets have highlighted the case of Gabrielle Petito while often ignoring stories about women of color who go missing.
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Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
White House press corps files a formal complaint after a Biden meeting with Boris Johnson ended with questions only from the British press; Psaki blames Johnson — Members of the White House press corps filed a formal complaint after a meeting between President Biden and the British Prime …
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Washington Examiner and New York Post
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Bob Chapek says Disney plans to get “aggressive” about expanding its sports wagering services, by striking licensing deals with gambling operators through ESPN — The company may be wagering that the line between football and gambling will inevitably be erased.
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@timobrien, @richlightshed and @pkafka
Martha Muir / Financial Times:
Researchers: as social networks clamp down on disinformation, Russia has begun spreading propaganda in comments sections on news outlets, such as Daily Mail — Online sites test new methods as social media platforms try to scrub their platforms of propaganda
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American Press Institute, @rasmus_kleis and @1br0wn, more at Techmeme »
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
YouTuber Omi in a Hellcat charged by US federal prosecutors with illegally selling copyrighted TV shows and movies, which netted him $30M+ between 2016 and 2019 — A flamboyant YouTuber known as Omi in a Hellcat was charged with illegally selling copyrighted TV shows and movies through an online service, prosecutors said.
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The Indian Express, TorrentFreak, @mlevenson and The Hill
Washington Post:
Washington Post launches Help Desk, using stories, videos, and other formats to offer tech advice, as part of a major expansion of its technology team — The Washington Post today announced the latest major investment in its fast-growing technology team, creating a dedicated destination …
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@yunheekim22
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Netflix paid upwards of £500M to acquire the Roald Dahl Story Company — The children's author's family, who were advised by bankers at Raine, have been paid “a little over” £500m to sell his literary estate to Netflix, Sky News can reveal. — City editor @MarkKleinmanSky
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David Pierce / Protocol:
Read-later apps, pioneered by Instapaper and Pocket, are having a resurgence led by Matter, Upnext, and others, which improve discoverability and other features — The internet, as a reading experience, is mostly terrible. The heavy pages riddled with ads and trackers, the unexpected pop-ups …
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Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Leaked email: Tim Cook says recent leakers of info about Apple products and internal meetings “do not belong here” and the company is tracking them down — The CEO says the company is doing everything in its power to track down workers — Tim Cook sent an email …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News will phase out the name CBSN for its news streaming service later this year as it brings its broadcast and digital efforts under the CBS News brand — CBSN represented the first effort by one of the traditional broadcast networks to get into the news streaming game, and its name was meant to evoke digital concepts.
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