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Media On Twitter, Hate Speech Bounded Only by a Character Limit close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Twitter, which helped enable the outsider candidacy of Donald J. Trump, has hosted abusive clashes between voters. Credit John Locher/Associated Press If you go by what some Twitter users have to say, it’s a wonder…
Media The Online Video View: We Can Count It, but Can We Count on It? close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, left, spoke at Advertising Week about the company’s recent video miscalculation mishap. Credit Michael Nagle/Bloomberg ONE OF THE great promises of online videos was the potential to measure precisely how effective…
Media Facebook Apologizes for Overstating Video Metrics close story-meta-footer close story-meta Facebook apologized on Friday for an error in the way it measured video viewership, a miscalculation that greatly overstated how much time, on average, its users were spending watching videos. The incorrect numbers were displayed to partners, including advertisers and publishers, for more than…
WASHINGTON ― Glenn Beck’s website The Blaze is coming apart, suffering from a lack of editorial direction, staff attrition and internal discord, according to sources inside the news outlet. The site, which Beck launched in 2010 to serve as the conservative counterpart to The Huffington Post, has dropped from 25 employees on its editorial side to…
Art by John Cassaday According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lucasfilm and directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street) have narrowed their search for a female lead in the Star Wars Han Solo prequel/spinoff to three frontrunners. Tessa Thompson (Annihilation), Zoë Kravitz (Mad Max: Fury Road), and Naomi Scott (Power Rangers, The Martian) have…
With a new tool, The Marshall Project has turned the internet into a tipline By Benjamin Mullin • September 30, 2016 Last updated by Benjamin Mullin September 30, 2016 a id=”dcl_comment_link” class=”comment_count” href=”#disqus_thread”> Comments a class=”comment_count” href=”#disqus_thread”> Comments Last month, Tom Meagher was on vacation in Prague when he got an email from a tipster….
Washington Post columnist and former New York Times ombudsman Margaret Sullivan wrote a scathing piece last week indicting Jeff Zucker, CNN’s president and Donald Trump’s previous television mentor at NBC, for his rise as a politician. She acknowledged that all the networks obsessively covered him and gleefully celebrated the ratings bonanza his candidacy created, but without…
An attorney asked a judge if the woman who accused Derrick Rose and two others of gang raping her could stop crying during her civil trial testimony on Thursday, the Associated Press reported. The woman, who used to date the New York Knicks player, filed a police report and $21.5 million lawsuit against Rose and…
The number of people killed in Haiti by the devastating effects of Hurricane Matthew had risen above 280, local officials said on Thursday, as rescue workers and aid agencies hoped to begin reaching remote areas of the country to assess the damage. The hurricane, which hit Haiti on Tuesday, brought 145mph winds and torrential rains…
Courtney Kube 2 hours ago Military officials on Thursday evening released numbers for what resources were being moved both in and out of the massive deadly storm. National Guard Florida: 2,500 Soldiers and Airmen activated to provide search and rescue, reconnaissance, high-wheeled vehicle and security support More than 6,000 Soldiers and Airmen from National…