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NBCUniversal’s advertising executive will take over as boss, with Musk holding on to senior role in companyFrom dealing with Musk to fixing Twitter Blue: what’s in the next CEO’s in-tray?Elon Musk has named NBCUniversal’s head of global advertising as …
Boss of industry body UK Finance accuses tech companies of ‘profiting’ from scams on their platformsThe boss of the banking industry body UK Finance has called on social media companies to reimburse victims of online fraud, accusing them of “profiting”…
Widow of ex-editor Harry Evans runs foundation supporting original reportage, which is holding first event this week“Corporate timidity” is undermining investigative journalism as news outlets reduce spending on original reporting in favour of material…
Under proposed ‘chat controls’ regulation, any encrypted service provider could be forced to screen for ‘identifiers’An EU plan under which all WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat accounts could be screened for child abuse content has hit a significant obs…
‘Intentional ambiguity’ over end-to-end encryption in online safety bill could lead to messaging app being withdrawnThe UK government risks sleepwalking into a confrontation with WhatsApp that could lead to the messaging app disappearing from Britain, …
Buzzfeed, Vice, Gawker and Drudge Report are all traffic-war casualties, but they succeeded in shaking up the media landscapeToward the end of Traffic, a new account of the early rock n roll years of internet publishing, Ben Smith writes that the faili…
Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to readA privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster’s closest friends to the site at large…
Rescue deal for publisher would wipe out existing shareholders, including James MurdochHow Vice and BuzzFeed fell to earthVice Media is nearing a deal to be bought out of bankruptcy by senior lenders in a process that will wipe out existing shareholder…
Verification mark granted to account that was suspended in 2017 but reinstated following takeover by Elon Musk last yearTwitter has given a gold tick to Britain First, the far right political organisation, after a shake-up of its verification system un…
Chief executive Jonah Peretti says in company-wide email BuzzFeed ‘can no longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News’BuzzFeed is shutting down what remains of its award-winning news department, signalling the end of an era for a website that once promised t…