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4:55 PM ET, February 23, 2022

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of short, curated comedy clips, on its TV app in select English-speaking countries  —  Fast Laughs is rolling out to ‘select English-speaking countries’  —  Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of comedy clips hand-picked by Netflix, on its TV app.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Engadget and The Streamable
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Boris Johnson says UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has asked Ofcom to review whether RT's news channel license should be suspended  —  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the Russian-backed RT news channel.  —  Addressing the House of Commons on Wednesday …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Conservative Brief, which employs three writers, has become huge on Facebook, surpassing WaPo and NYT, ostensibly by paying large Pages to share its content  —  Most people have probably never heard of the website Conservative Brief.  It employs just three writers and it does not produce any original reporting.
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen expands its Media Impact planning tools, adding streaming platform ratings to help advertisers and media buyers plan cross-platform campaigns  —  The addition aims to help marketers plan campaigns — and signal the industry that the embattled company is adapting to the current landscape.
Discussion: Variety
Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
As China walks a tightrope over the Ukraine crisis, Beijing-linked Horizon News accidentally posts and then deletes rules banning coverage unfavorable to Russia  —  China did not explicitly endorse Moscow's latest moves toward Ukraine but still recognized on Tuesday what it called Russia's …
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Roku launches Advertising Watermark to help advertisers and publishers verify the authenticity of their video ads and defend against “device spoofing”  —  To reduce advertising fraud in the connected TV (CTV) and streaming businesses, Roku is starting up a new free technology …
Ed Z / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
Some journalists, guilted by crypto zealots into “being open-minded”, fail their readers by giving the scam-filled crypto industry the benefit of the doubt  —  Yesterday I had a quasi-viral tweet about how I cannot for the life of me find an explanation as to why Web3 and the blockchain are so inevitably the future.
Variety:
Sources: under Skydance's deal with Apple Studios, Apple promises Skydance at least two fully financed feature films a year, with budgets of up to ~$125M  —  Nearly a month after it was announced that Apple had landed a slate of live action films from longtime Paramount Pictures partner Skydance …
Discussion: AppleInsider and @mattdonnelly
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Condé Nast's Vogue and GQ sign a deal with TikTok to make exclusive content for the app, including live streams, hashtag challenges, and short-form video series  —  Vogue and GQ will make content exclusively for TikTok, both for their own respective brand channels and in print …
Discussion: Tubefilter and @markdistef
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Study: since May, Facebook labeled only about half the posts promoting 184 climate change denial articles from publishers like Breitbart and Newsmax  —  Facebook is falling short on its pledge to crack down on climate misinformation, according to a new analysis from a British watchdog group.
 
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Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Twitch launches the Ad Incentive Program to pay select streamers a guaranteed monthly minimum ad revenue based on amount of ads run per hour and hours streamed
The Nation:
The Nation names Bhaskar Sunkara, founder and publisher of Jacobin, as president
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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Disney EMEA, BBC Studios, and Sony Pictures join the Digital Entertainment Group International trade body; Google and Warner Bros. are already members
Discussion: Media Play News and WORLD SCREEN
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Police say a Missouri education webpage had a flaw since 2011, until a reporter pointed it out and Missouri's governor attempted to prosecute him as a hacker
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
An update on some of the amateur sleuths, including Claude Taylor and Louise Mensch, who built large social media followings with unfounded claims about Trump
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
 
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