[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.

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[Link] ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone

Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive.

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[Link] Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

In an attempt to get ahead of reporting that will seemingly make Facebook—already reeling from weeks of revelations from a whistleblower—somehow look even worse, the company has adopted an increasingly popular strategy among some corporations: posting through it.

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[Link] Australian government pays PR firm to copy existing Covid data into daily email to media

Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

The health department is refusing to say how much it is paying a public relations firm to email a copy of the Covid-19 vaccination data displayed on its website to media outlets each day.

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