Facebook is preparing to launch a news video section for Watch this summer →

“The Athletic recently raised $20 million of new funding and has poached a number of SI writers already. Paul Fichtenbaum, SI’s former editor-in-chief, is chief content officer there. Former SI writers Stewart Mandel and Seth Davis lead national college football and college basketball sites.”

“Q: Is there a subscription model in BuzzFeed News’ future?

A: It’s possible. A partial paywall could make sense. But it’s also important we educate and inform the broad public. If every news organization puts the majority of their content behind paywalls, it’s hard to have an informed electorate.” —SW

“Looking through your downloaded data reveals certain information you ordinarily wouldn’t see. For example, Facebook assigns one of two labels to what it calls your Friend Peer Group: Starting Adult Life or Established Adult Life. You also get a file called facedata.htm, which contains your facial recognition intel. Then there’s a list of topics Facebook thinks you’re interested in and shares with advertisers.”

According to Apple’s senior vice president of internet software and services, Apple News users followed an average of 4 publications a year ago, and now that number is up to 20. Part of the goal of Apple News — and owning Texture — is to avoid issues with ‘a lot of the issues’ happening in the media today, such as inaccurate stories gaining traction.

Google had already suggested that it would do this at its Digital News Innovation Summit last month.

“‘Information cues’ — links to Wikipedia — will appear alongside videos about topics that have inspired significant debate, like the moon landing and chemtrails.”

“Tonight, readers will have the option to turn the jitter off. We expect that some readers will opt to do so, but remember this: Switching it off only hides the uncertainty — it doesn’t make it go away.”

“Former Onion editor in chief Cole Bolton and executive editor Ben Berkley left the publication last year due to differences with the company’s management. Since then, the two have been in Los Angeles working on the Musk project, and they recently poached three of the site’s writers and a longtime editor to join them, sources confirmed.”