media
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Now New Zealand Plans to Make Facebook and Google Pay News Outlets
New Zealand plans to start mandating that Google and Meta pay local media companies for reposting news content on their platforms.
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Why Do Aussies Have to Wait for New TV Shows on Streaming Services?
In early February, fans tuned in to Network 10 expecting to see the new season of South Park. Instead, they saw re-runs. Were South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker trolling fans with a fake new season or was this yet another familiar experience of lagging release schedules for Australian viewers? It was the…
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Cops Want More of Our Social Media Data Than Ever Before
Law enforcement doesn’t have much trouble getting access to data from social media companies. In fact, over the first half of last year, authorities in the U.S. made close to 118,000 requests for user information from tech companies — a number that’s more than twice the number of requests thrown at these companies since 2015.…
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Neil Gaiman’s Explanation Why Media Left American Gods Is Ridiculous
The plot of Neil Gaiman’s original American Gods was rather straightforward. But Starz’s adaptation of the novel has ended up being somewhat more complicated, in part because of the numerous changes to the cast that had to be made in response to stars like Orlando Jones (Mr. Nancy), Kristin Chenoweth (Easter), and Gillian Anderson (Media)…