🎧 Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business

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Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year. Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and plans to remove them altogether from the social-media service starting June 3. Facebook will stop letting people add podcasts to the service starting this week, according to a… (Ashley Carman / Bloomberg)

Ashley Carman @ashleyrcarman

SCOOP: facebook is removing all podcasts from the platform on june 3rd. it'll stop allowing people to add their podcasts starting this week

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years. The precise movements of millions of users of the gay-dating app Grindr were collected from a digital advertising network and made available for sale, according to people familiar with the matter. The information was available for sale since at… (Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal)

Wolfie Christl @WolfieChristl

2 years ago, we observed Grindr sharing exact location data with 8 data brokers in the 'advertising' space, including MoPub, back then owned by Twitter. Now the WSJ found that this data has actually been available for sale, via MoPub, since at least 2017: wsj.com/articles/grind…

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Leaked draft Supreme Court decision would overturn Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling, Politico report says. The Supreme Court is poised to overturn the constitutionally protected right to abortion ensured by the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, according to a leaked initial draft of the new opinion obtained by Politico. The draft is written by… (Dan Mangan / CNBC)

CNBC Now @CNBCnow

BREAKING: Leaked draft Supreme Court decision would overturn Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling, Politico report says

cnbc.comLeaked draft Supreme Court decision would overturn Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling, Politico report saysFor nearly 50 years the constitutional right to abortion has been protected by the Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade case. An imminent decision could upend that.

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Amazon Kindles finally support the ebooks everyone else sells, sort of. This weekend, a report from Good E-Reader seemed to suggest something truly wild. After 15 years, Amazon was going to finally bow to competition and support the ePub ebook format used by the wide majority of online bookstores, publishers, and… (Alex Cranz / The Verge)

David Pierce @pierce

All I want in the world is a Kindle-ish device that supports all file formats, and syncs to Pocket or Matter or some other app for saving articles. Amazon refuses to allow this. GIVE ME MY READING GADGET PLEASE AMAZON

theverge.comAmazon Kindles finally support the ebooks everyone else sells, sort ofTrue support for the ebook file format feels so close.

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The Facebook Papers: The Algorithms That Control Your News Feed. In a presentation dated May 6, 2018, a Facebook employee asked, “Is Ranking Good?” “Probably. Even asking the question feels slightly blasphemous at Facebook,” the same employee answered in smaller text below. “So… (Dell Cameron, Shoshana Wodinsky, and Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo)

dell cameron @dellcam

Good morning. Today we've published 37 internal Facebook documents (500+ pages) describing how it ranks information in user feeds; promotes & demotes content; and what it actually means when it says it wants "meaningful" interactions.

gizmodo.comThe Facebook Papers: The Algorithms That Control Your News FeedFacebook employees knew that a computer-curated feed increased the time users spent on the social network—and that it led to unhealthy behaviors.

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