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paging_filter Annotation start-up Genius made it easier on Monday to report abusive comments on the platform on Monday, following criticism from Massachusetts congresswoman Katherine Clark. Clark, a Democrat who has campaigned against online harassment, sent a letter to Genius on Monday asking the company to respond to concerns about online harassment. “Now that your platform…
Photo: Marcie Casas/Flickr News Genius lets anyone add annotations to anything on the web. It’s an interesting tool with some potentially powerful applications—but it’s also adding a comments section on top of the entire internet, in a time when many sites (including Motherboard) are turning off the comments due to the potential for harassment….
Female bloggers have a long, sordid history of harassment on the Web.IPGGutenbergUKLtd/Thinkstock In 2014, while still recovering from a very public spat with Google over SEO marketing techniques that resulted in a brief suspension from Google’s search results and an 80 percent drop in traffic to the site, the lyrics and annotation site Rap…
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Photo: AP Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, and always one for public self-flagellation, has whole-heartedly embraced the idea that “we in the media” have “empowered” Donald Trump. This is incorrect. According to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, barely half of GOP primary voters said that they’d be satisfied with…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based broadcaster, said Sunday it is slashing about 500 jobs a little more than two months after announcing the closure of its U.S. offshoot. The cutbacks come as 2022 World Cup host Qatar refocuses its spending priorities amid a steep drop in prices for oil and gas,…
I moderate Facebook comments all day. While the rest of the Internet shuts off comments on publications, Facebook comments aren’t going anywhere—they count as engagement to help rank posts in the newsfeed, and there is no way for an admin to turn them off. As the host of a large media non-profit’s page, it is…
To the surprise of exactly no one with criminal law experience, Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted on all sexual assault charges. The media and supporters of survivors erupted with reaction. This case is an unmitigated disaster for sexual assault survivors, who should be our first priority. It doesn’t help anything to sugar-coat what happened here. By…
The International Business Times, a digital business, politics and culture publication, has laid off at least 15 employees in New York and California, according to multiple sources. Additionally, Global Editor in Chief Peter S. Goodman will be leaving the company, though his planned departure was not related to today’s layoffs. IBT is owned by IBT Media,…
paging_filter IBT Media editor in chief Peter Goodman is leaving the company as it executes a round of layoffs, POLITICO Media has learned. Three current IBT staffers said that editors at the site have been meeting with reporters this week to let them know that Goodman is leaving and the company will be undergoing significant…