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Friday, June 29, 2018
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Americans may appreciate knowing when a news story is suspect, but more than a third will share that story anywayPlus: Facebook fights fake news in Mexico ahead of the election, and a large majority of Republicans believe that social media platforms are censoring some political views. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Twitter / Lois Beckett
No notoriety: How news organizations are portraying the Capital Gazette victims and the alleged shooter →
“@CNN’s front is intensely, intimately focused on the victims of the shooting. Their names. Their faces. Not an image of the perpetrator in sight, and his name is nowhere on home page. In contrast, @nytimes front prominently displays the suspect’s name, but includes no prominent photograph of him. (There is a tiny thumbnail on the most-read list.)”
The New York Times / Daisuke Wakabayashi
An American GDPR? California passes a sweeping law for online privacy →
“The new law grants consumers the right to know what information companies are collecting about them, why they are collecting that data and with whom they are sharing it. It gives consumers the right to tell companies to delete their information as well as to not sell or share their data. Businesses must still give consumers who opt out the same quality of service.”
WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
44 Gizmodo Media Group staffers take the company’s buyouts →
David Uberti’s take: “I took a buyout from Gizmodo Media Group and today was my last day. Tomorrow, I go to Peru on a ‘pre-planned vacation’ to consume as much pisco as the altitude will allow.”
Financial Times / Anna Nicolaou
Politico Pro is expanding to Canada in the fall →
“Canada marks Politico's latest foray outside the Beltway. The company in 2015 struck a joint venture agreement with Axel Springer, the German media company, to launch a European version of its website and newsletter and has since hired more than 100 employees across Europe. Last month, Politico entered Asia through a partnership with the South China Morning Post.”
TechCrunch / Anthony Ha
Twitter launches its Ads Transparency Center, where you can see ads bought by any account →
“Twitter says that with this tool, you should be able to search for any Twitter handle and bring up all the ad campaigns from that account that have run for the past seven days. For political advertisers in the U.S., there will be additional data, including information around billing, ad spend, impressions per tweet and demographic targeting.”
VentureBeat / ANNA HENSEL
You can now see all the active Facebook ads run by a Page →
“Users will see a new button called ‘info and ads’ at the top of a Page belonging to a business, nonprofit, or other organization. ‘Page info’ will allow them to see when the Page was created and if its name has been changed at all, though the company said there would be more information available to view in the tab in the coming weeks. The ‘active ads’ section will allow users to see what ads that page is currently running across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
Survey reveals rampant sexual harassment in UK media and advertising →
“Twenty-six percent of respondents said they have been harassed while working in the media and marketing industries. Of the respondents who have been sexually harassed, 72 percent said they were more than once, and 25 percent said it had happened six times or more.”