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8:55 PM ET, March 1, 2018

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Colin Lecher / The Verge:

Twitter says it's seeking proposals from experts to assess its “health” and whether it's fostering positive debate or enabling “abuse, spam, and manipulation” — Twitter, like other major tech companies, has faced a year of punishing criticism, as it's been roiled by misinformation …

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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

ABC News, The Athletic, and Atlantic are contending for ownership of FiveThirtyEight, which averaged 4M-6M unique visitors/month in past year, ~21M in Nov. 2016 — Statistics guru's website is poised to move on from a five-year tie-up with ESPN — The list of suitors for Nate Silver's …

Discussion: @shalini, The Big Lead and Awful Announcing

CNNMoney:

John Moody, who wrote an inflammatory Fox News column about the Olympics that was later taken down, has retired — Fox News exec slams Olympic committee's focus on diversity — John Moody, the longtime Fox News executive who wrote a controversial column about the US Olympic committee last month …

Discussion: Variety, Mediaite, TVWeek.com and Hollywood Reporter

Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Facebook says it's ending test in six countries that moved Pages' posts from News Feed to secondary Explore Feed, is also ending Explore Feed bookmark globally — Facebook has ended a test that put publishers in one feed and friends in another. — Facebook has decided it's a bad idea …

Discussion: Facebook, Gizmodo, Fortune, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Quartz, Adweek, Fast Company and @caseynewton, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Interview with Tow Center's Jonathan Albright on how disinformation spreads across platforms: “the ways we get news ... are literally disintegrating around us” — “The kinds of things that I often see could literally be stopped by one person. I mean: 4chan trending on Google during the Las Vegas shooting?

Discussion: BuzzFeed, @elilake, @mat, @miriamelder, @ggreenwald, @jimwaterson, @kevincollier, @niemanlab and Wolfgang Blau, more at Techmeme »

Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:

EU announces guidelines mandating that tech firms remove terror content within one hour of it being flagged by law enforcement or Europol — EU announces guidelines to tech giants for removing terror and other illegal content from their websites — BRUSSELS—The European Union on Thursday upped …

Discussion: EU Press Room, The Verge, Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget, Financial Times, The Daily Beast and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:

Hasan Minhaj, a Daily Show correspondent, gets his own Netflix talk show, with 32 episodes, becoming the first Indian-American to host a weekly comedy show — The 32-episode order makes Minhaj the first Indian-American to host a weekly comedy show. — Hasan Minhaj is moving his comedy to Netflix.

Discussion: The Wrap, HuffPost, BrooklynVegan, The Verge, Variety, Engadget, Paste, Splitsider, Jezebel and TV Tattle

Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:

Maria Contreras-Sweet says her investment group has reached a deal to buy Weinstein Company assets — Maria Contreras-Sweet's investor group has reached a deal to purchase assets of Weinstein Co., the former Obama administration official said Thursday. — “Our team is pleased to announce …

Discussion: New York Times, Reuters and Bloomberg

The Daily Beast:

Oath cancels online talk show The Morning Breath starring the Oshry sisters, a family of Instagram stars and daughters of Islamophobe Pamela Geller — The tech platform Oath has canceled a show starring several Instagram stars whose mother is famous conspiracy theorist and Islamophobe Pamela Geller.

Discussion: The Wrap, Variety, Hollywood Life, The Daily Signal, Oxygen Official Site, Washington Post, Business Insider, TMZ.com and The Daily Beast

Eric Johnson / Recode:

Interview with Katie Couric on her time at Yahoo: though it spent money on big-name reporters, it didn't know how to distribute and scale its quality content — “They hired some big names, and yet they were in the witness protection program.” — When Katie Couric joined Yahoo in 2014 …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and TVNewser

Columbia Journalism Review:

Canadian government pledges CAD$50M to support local journalism over five years, but media leaders worry amount is too little and may not flow to right outlets — Newspapers stacked and folded in Toronto. Image: Kat Northern Lights Man/flickr. — The Canadian government has pledged …

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @sprawlcalgary, @debananenschil and Toronto Star

David Uberti / Splinter:

As a NY police union fights to keep body camera footage secret, a coalition of 13 media outlets joins RCFP in an effort to intervene in the case — In January, just months after the New York Police Department released body camera footage of a police shooting for the first time …

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Sony Music owns 5.7% of Spotify's shares, which is more than other music labels and potentially worth $1.1B based on a $20B valuation — Now it has to figure out how to divide that money with Beyonce and its other artists. — Spotify's coming IPO is validation for CEO Daniel Ek, who has built a giant music streaming business.

Discussion: Variety, 89.3 KPCC, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Recode and Variety

Recode:
Spotify's gross margin has grown from 16% to 21% from 2014 to 2017, but since it pays per stream, it still must figure out how to turn usage growth into profit

Discussion: Forbes, Fast Company and Axios

Joseph Cox / Motherboard:

YouTube banned neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division's channel for violating hate speech policies following criticism and a request from the Anti-Defamation League — YouTube's removal only comes after a media flurry around the platform's inaction on neo-Nazi content.

Discussion: Al Jazeera English, The Outline, The Daily Caller, Jezebel and The Verge

Paris Martineau / The Outline:
After removing some conspiracy and pro-gun videos and channels, YouTube says it will reinstate videos that were removed in error by moderators

Discussion: Tubefilter, BetaNews, Bloomberg and Gizmodo

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