Links on Twitter: USA Today’s Newsdeck, ESPN’s pre-roll ads on YouTube, MetaFilter’s 10th birthday

USA Today plays a wildcard with Newsdeck, a new interface for their content http://tr.im/shsU How do you like it? »

Call it the Skirmish Near UMich: Vibrant competition for eyeballs, advertisers among Ann Arbor news sites http://tr.im/siTb »

The founder of wildly popular @BreakingNews is 19 years old… and once sold a bin Laden tape to Reuters http://tr.im/skmj »

ESPN brings pre-roll ads to YouTube with its new channel and custom player. An example: http://tr.im/sir7 »

TMZ, which just brought its ad sales in-house, has annual revenues estimated at $15m, similar to Politico http://tr.im/sh7J »

Good morning, and happy 10th birthday to MetaFilter! Here’s a great piece on the web’s conversation leader http://tr.im/sh3W »

Sarah Scire

Seeking “innovative,” “stable,” and “interested”: How The Markup and CalMatters matched up

Nonprofit news has seen an uptick in mergers, acquisitions, and other consolidations. CalMatters CEO Neil Chase still says “I don’t think we’ve seen enough yet.”

Jonathan Stray

“Objectivity” in journalism is a tricky concept. What could replace it?

“For a long time, ‘objectivity’ packaged together many important ideas about truth and trust. American journalism has disowned that brand without offering a replacement.”

Renee DiResta, Abhiram Reddy, and Josh A. Goldstein

From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam

Within days of visiting the pages — and without commenting on, liking, or following any of the material — Facebook’s algorithm recommended reams of other AI-generated content.