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Plus: YouTube would radicalize even without its algorithm, Reddit bans fakes both deep and cheap, and Facebook will let you dial down political ads.
“I’d never want to be in the position of doing like The New York Times style of writing about the Nazi next door who sometimes eats at Applebee’s.”
By giving advertisers better targeting and better data, the streaming giant is using a weapon unavailable to the open podcast space, which still mostly sees ads as opaque MP3 files.
“On this one issue, we’ve decided to drop the guns and share consistently.” “Our readers are getting 10 times more stories about climate change than they otherwise would.”
Republicans and Democrats are (surprisingly!) teaming up to help news organizations negotiate with the tech giants. But it’s unlikely to have a substantial impact on the dysfunctional relationship between publishers and platforms.
Apple and Spotify battle back and forth, conflicts over freelancer status, metrics stabilize, shows respond to platform incentives, and maybe new rules for music licensing.
“Trust me — every person of color in your newsroom has a story about how a manager questioned either their news judgment, their diction, or whether they could be neutral or objective.” Tonya Mosley