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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Facebook on Friday reversed its decision to remove postings of an iconic 1972 image of a naked, screaming girl running from a napalm attack in Vietnam, after a Norwegian revolt against the tech giant. Protests in Norway started last month after Facebook deleted the Pulitzer Prize-winning image by Associated Press photographer…
Facebook’s Trending Topics feature is in trouble. Again. The section, whose human editors were recently replaced by algorithms, has promoted a “truther” article from a British tabloid claiming the Twin Towers in New York collapsed on Sept. 11 due to a “controlled demolition.” On Friday morning, users hovering over the “September 11th” trending topic ahead…
After a decade of documenting job losses for journalists totaling more than 20,000 since 2006, the American Society of News Editors has abandoned the effort. The annual ASNE census (renamed the ASNE Diversity Survey) was released today on the eve of the group’s yearly convention. For the first time in its nearly 40-year history, the…
Facebook has banned one of the most famous images of the Vietnam war—then 9-year-old Kim Phuc running naked from a napalm attack on her village—for contravening the site’s prohibition on “nudity.” It even removed a posting of it by the Norwegian Prime Minister. The editor of Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten said the entire post, which was…
Live shot of the Times copy desk.Gus Pasquerella/Public domain/via Wikipedia 1. Thursday morning libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson went on MSNBC and responded to a question about Aleppo, Syria, by saying he didn’t know what Aleppo was. 2. The New York Times ran a story about Johnson’s gaffe that itself misidentified Aleppo as the…
The Times‘ Gary Johnson/Aleppo story.Screenshot/New York Times Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today and admitted in response to a question about Aleppo, Syria, that he had no idea what “Aleppo” was. This was a pretty big mistake for someone who is likely to get…
This rectangle display ad from Omega caught my eye as I scrolled through a lengthy New York Times story about the Olympic games on my iPhone a few weeks ago. It looked pretty good, not surprising for a major Olympics sponsor. Still, I expected it to link to a product pitch on a corporate site. What I…
Photo Gretchen Carlson, a former anchor at Fox News, filed suit on July 6, leading to Roger Ailes’s ouster two weeks later. Credit Bryan Anselm for The New York Times The parent company of Fox News said on Tuesday that it had settled a lawsuit with its former anchor Gretchen Carlson, who said that Roger…
Acting on behalf of deposed Fox News honcho Roger Ailes and wife Elizabeth, attorney Charles Harder – Hulk Hogan’s libel lawyer – has requested that New York magazine and writer Gabriel Sherman preserve all documents pertaining to the Ailes, a not-so-subtle threat of possible legal action in response to the magazine’s damning article about sexual…