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Apple News criticized after study shows vast majority of curated articles come from just a handful of sources
What they found is that Apple gives clear preference to big names, and not even very many of those.
Barstool Sports announces move to Telegram to avoid big tech censorship
Barstool isn’t the first media organization or personality to start diversifying their content channels.
Nintendo successfully persuades court to order ISPs to block access to websites
The litigious gaming company was able to persuade the court to require UK internet providers to block accesses to websites that enable Switch game piracy.
Microsoft president says Taylor Swift “tried to sue” them over controversial AI chatbot Tay
According to Smith, it was revealed that the popstar’s lawyer accused Microsoft of violating federal and state laws by misleading the association between the chatbot and the singer.
Most Americans don’t like journalists sharing opinions on social media, but Democrats are happier with it
The poll shows that twice as many Democrats as Republicans are comfortable with personal views and opinions presented by journalists online.
Facebook executives say Zuckerberg and Sandberg are “incredibly involved” in content policy and moderation
Apparently, Sandberg and Zuckerberg are willing to micromanage the behemoth that currently serves nearly 2.5 billion users and has tens of thousands of employees.
Twitch streamer Amouranth suspended after rolling over and flashing genitals to viewers
2 hours after the streaming incident took place, Twitch ended up shutting down the account of Amouranth.
EA wins Guinness World Record for most downvoted Reddit comment in history
Gamer Redditors didn’t take too kindly to EA doubling down on their hostile pay-to-play business practices and downvoted the post into the Reddit history.
Major Facebook bug allows users to edit the title of any news article
There are at least two loopholes that we know of that allow you to edit the title of any article that you post to Facebook.
UK NHS starts using social media influencers to improve its image
Chief nursing officer Ruth May is quoted as saying that the organization wants “next generation of health care tech” to be promoted online by its “extraordinary staff.”
Facebook censors satirical women’s site Reductress, suggests satire is “clickbait”
Facebook calls the satirical site Clickbait.
France to combine anti-piracy agency with media regulator
France is still focusing its energy on stomping out any sharing, aka piracy, taking place online by enforcing more government regulation.