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Share: Gizmodo: Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

Something something fourth estate gatekeepers of trust, something something absolute power corrupts absolutely, something something “Let’s all quit using Facebook” again. According to interviews published by Gizmodo’s Michael Nunez: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked… Read More »

Share: The Facebook Papers, Part 1: The great unbundling

Great series starting up in Recode from Tony Haile, founder and CEO of Chartbeat and an adjunct professor of media and technology at Columbia and Stanford Universities. Digital media companies do five things. They create, host, curate, distribute and monetize content. Facebook now does four of them. Normally this should not concern media companies more… Read More »

Share: Tech SubReddit Seeks To Ban Sites Trying To Thwart Ad Blockers

Damn those content producers trying to monetize their business. On the one hand, I can see the publisher justifying the move on the grounds that they are giving access to the content at no monetary cost to the user, but “charging” them for message exposure and time (and who-knows-what personal information tracking). On the other… Read More »

Share: PayPal Backs Out Of Crowdfunding Guarantees

PayPal essentially doubled as an underwriter for people backing Kickstarter campaigns. Engadget touches on the online payment giant’s change of heart about carrying the risk for successful fundraisers that simply fail to deliver on their promises. Kickstarter notes that about 9 percent of its projects never deliver — even though PayPal only handles some of… Read More »

Share: Computer Science Students Discover Semester’s Teaching Assistant Was Computer AI

“Jill Watson,” one of the nine teaching assistants helping answer online questions from Georgia Tech computer science students, turned out to be IBM’s Watson AI. One day in January, Eric Wilson dashed off a message to the teaching assistants for an online course at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “I really feel like I missed… Read More »

Share: PSFK’s Advertising By The Numbers – Audience Vs. Industry

Some highlights from PSFK’s most recent Future of Advertising report: * Between 2013 and 2014, there was a 60% increase in spending on digital video advertising. However, there was a 124% increase in people who use adblocking services. * 59% of online traffic is not from humans, but from query-focused bots. * 56% of the… Read More »

Share: Desjardins’ 2016 ‘Internet Minute’ Visualized

Great infographic from Jeff Desjardins’ at Visual Capitalist, another take on his U.S. Consumption Numbers in Real-Time graphic: Full version: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/what-happens-internet-minute-2016/

Share: L2 Mobile Clinic 2016 Highlights (Video)

From the video description: At Mobile Clinic, L2 members got an inside look at some of the biggest topics in mobile. Here are a few of the most compelling takeaways: Consumers are spending more time on mobile, but barely any time with retailers. Claude de Jocas – Intelligence Group Director, L2 The secret to selling… Read More »

Share: Politico Founder: ‘Journalists Are Killing Journalism’

Yet another Buzzfeed stunt highlights the economy of time among Gen Y influencers, and the potentially catastrophic fallout facing modern journalism as a result: It was not so long ago — oh, say, five, maybe six years — that traditional news organizations like this one could laugh at BuzzFeed’s gag along with everyone else, smugly… Read More »

Share: Mobile Social Holds 85% Of Current Ad Dollar

The internet’s rapid removal of journalism content creators’ role as gatekeepers highlighted again here. From the article: Online publishers have faced numerous financial challenges in recent years, including automated advertising and ad-blocking tools. But now, there is a realization that something more profound has happened: The transition from an Internet of websites to an Internet… Read More »