YouTube has shaped the weakest, least fearless response to mass backlash involving its ruling yesterday that right-wing personality Steven Crowder’s racist and homophobic assaults on Vox video producer Carlos Maza didn’t violate the current policy. Now YouTube says it’s demonetized Crowder’s channel because his” motif of heinous activities has harmed …
Read More »India’s most popular services are becoming super apps
Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest sell, to borrow up to some hundreds of dollars. The crediting option will be the fourth feature the nine-year-old app adds to its service in the last two years. So far it …
Read More »Takeaways from F8 and Facebook’s next phase
Extra Crunch gives members the opportunity to tune into conference call conducted and moderated by the TechCrunch novelists you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself …
Read More »What Is Digital Marketing?
With how accessible the internet is today, would you believe me if I told you the number of people who go online every day is still increasing? It is. In fact, “constant” internet usage among adults increased by 5% in merely the last three years, according to Pew Research. And …
Read More »AUDIO: Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo Drops the Most Mad Dog Antonio Brown Take Ever
Like usual, after a half a day full of athletics takes, the best one comes after 3 p. m. ET by the famed Chris “Mad Dog” Russo. Mad Dog gave the world his reaction to Antonio Brown being traded to the Raiders which included an ruling on if a particular …
Read More »The Oligopoly’s Q4 Sky-High Revenue Suggests GDPR Gave Them A Leg Up
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh theories on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Gil Elbaz, CEO at Factual. Many was assumed that the General Data Protection Regulation( GDPR) would protect buyer privacy, draw rein behemoths like Facebook, Google …
Read More »‘Amazing’: NYT opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg’s take on Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism is ‘beyond parody’
Yesterday, in the midst of the righteous indignation surrounding Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s latest anti-Semitic remarks, Seth Mandel made a prediction: Looking forward to Michelle Goldberg's NYT column, Money-Grubbing Jews Are the Real Anti-Semites, Not Ilhan Omar — Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) February 11, 2019 And, just like clockwork: Amazing. Michelle …
Read More »Fox’s Watters Highlights Media Bias on Minors in Politics: Parkland vs. Covington
During Saturday’s edition of Watters’ World, Fox News host Jesse Watters brought up a blaring double standard when it comes to the media’s treatment of children: “Remember the Parkland shooter situation where everybody was going after the students and people immediately said you cannot go after students, you cannot say …
Read More »How a Texas Soccer Club Helped African Refugees Feel at Home
Umoja ni nguvu. Unity is strength. For a soccer squad of African refugees, this Swahili phrase has been a powerful rallying cry. Many of the players constructed their direction to Houston, Texas, after years spent in refugee camps, knowing very little English except for a few words, such as” How …
Read More »The Criterion Collection is launching its own streaming service
When WarnerMedia announced last-place month that it “wouldve been” shutting down its streaming service FilmStruck, the team at the Criterion Collection “re saying it” “wouldve been” looking for a new digital home. Today, Criterion announced that it will be constructing that home itself — namely, launching a streaming service called …
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