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Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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Facebook rules the Internet in the Philippines. Rappler walks the line between partnership and criticism“It’s still an empowering platform. I will not take that away from them. But people who deal with the algorithms have to work hand in hand with people who have responsibilities in the public space.” By Shan Wang. |
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NBC News invents the script for a twice-daily Snapchat news show“We’re certainly walking before we’re running, but we’re actually sort of jogging before we’re running.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
The Street / Leon Lazaroff
Facebook is launching subscriptions in Instant Articles this fall →
In addition to steering readers to a publisher’s home page to consider taking out a digital subscription, Facebook plans to erect a paywall which would require readers to become subscribers of the platform after they’d accessed 10 articles. Initial tests will begin in October.
Digiday / Max Willens
Data shows publishers are buying far more Facebook traffic →
According to analysis of over 1 million paid posts targeted at a specific audience segment on a platform, that were shared by more than 400 publishers, the average number of paid monthly impressions from Facebook over the past 18 months has more than doubled, according to content marketing firm Keywee.
The Verge / Casey Newton
Google introduces its take on the news feed, with a personalized stream of news and information on iOS and Android →
“The feed, which includes items drawn from your search history and topics you choose to follow, is designed to turn Google's app into a destination for browsing as well as search. Google is hoping you'll begin opening its app the way you do Facebook or Twitter, checking it reflexively throughout the day for quick hits of news and information.”
ProPublica / Jeremy B. Merrill
How ProPublica authenticated Trump’s lawyer’s emails →
“There's a cryptographic technique that can tell us if an email message that you or your source has received matches what was sent. It comes in two similar flavors. One's called "DomainKeys Identified Mail," or DKIM, and the other is "Authenticated Received Chain," or ARC. You can use them to authenticate emails that come in over the transom. It takes a tiny bit of command-line work and maybe a little coaxing of your source, but it can offer you a mathematical guarantee that the email you have on your screen is identical to the one that the source received, with no possibility of intermediate tampering.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
BuzzFeed launches a morning news podcast that was designed for Alexa →
“One way that it’s different is that it was really created with the smart speaker platform in mind, so it’s much more condensed than the daily podcasts that are out there,” said Alex Laughlin, a BuzzFeed news audio fellow who oversees reporting for the platform. “This is very much not like those products beyond the fact that it is a daily news podcast.”