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Archives: January 17, 2019

Christine SchmidtJanuary 17, 2019

Nine steps for how Facebook should embrace meaningful interac— er, accountability

“There are broad concerns that Facebook continues to engage in deceptive behavior when it comes to user privacy, and that it is biased against certain groups, but outsiders currently have almost no possibilities to verify these claims.”

Christine SchmidtJanuary 17, 2019

“Media is hard”: Corey Ford on why his media venture fund Matter is paused (for now)

“We made a lot of investments over time that we knew were never going to be grand slams, but that we thought could be good sustainable, viable doubles that were actually solving a really important problem in this space.”

Mollie LeavittJanuary 17, 2019

How New York magazine thinks about having one paywall across multiple verticals

“We wanted to take these three different segments and treat them differently and be flexible enough to really target the people who are most likely to convert, rather than have a blanket rule across every site, every user, and treat them all equally.”