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DCN’s must reads: week of July 19, 2018
July 19, 2018 | Curated by DCNHere are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- The New York Times | E.U. Fines Google $5.1 Billion in Android Antitrust Case (5 min read)
- Buzzfeed | Facebook Proves It Isn’t Ready To Handle Fake News (5 min read)
- Wired | Judd Legum Wants to Fix News With a Newsletter (8 min read)
- Bloomberg | Netflix Is King No More as Disney Retakes Media-Company Crown (4 min read)
- Marketing Land | Facebook’s automated systems to monitor political advertisers are blocking the wrong ads (3 min read)
- NPR | Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans’ Trust In Local News (3 min read)
- The New York Times | Two Senators Call for Investigation of Smart TV Industry (6 min read)
- Quartz | Walmart is reportedly planning a video streaming service to compete with Netflix and Amazon (2 min read)
- Recode | Full transcript: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Recode Decode (1h read or 1h 22 min listen)
- The Ken | The Ken raises $1.5M in its Series A Round (5 min read)
- CNN | Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn’t banned (4 min read)