media
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Facebook Experiments With Being Less Awful, Says Not to Get Used to It or Anything
Has Facebook learned jack shit from the past few nightmare years? Not really, per a report in the New York Times on Tuesday. Facebook only started giving more weight to reputable publishers in the News Feed days after the 2020 election and doesn’t plan on making that a long-term thing. Executives on its policy team…
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I Miss When It Was Quiet
My weekend was like most other weekends in the pandemic era. I went for a walk in the park with my wife, briefly saw some friends outdoors and socially distanced, made some mac and cheese, and mainly chilled. But for all the trappings of normalcy (or what goes for normalcy these days), there was something distinctly…
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Look at What You Started, Epic, Now Everyone’s Saying Screw the Apple Tax
Major news organisations are joining Epic Games in the push for Apple to rethink its app store terms following Fortnite’s high-profile ban this month. [related_content first=”1286316″] Digital Content Next, a trade organisation representing the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other media outlets and publishers (including yours truly,…
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CNN Blurs Faces of U.S. Secret Police in Viral Video
CNN aired a viral video on Sunday of U.S. secret police kidnapping people in Portland, Oregon — a tactic that White House officials say could be coming to several other cities in the coming weeks. CNN made an odd journalistic choice to blur the faces of the police in the video, but CNN’s Jake Tapper…