Links on Twitter: Spot.Us as platform not news organization, NYT’s Bay Area edition launches tomorrow, stats on Black Friday online ads

Why Spot.Us is a platform, not a news org. Good interview with @digidave as he mulls eastward expansion http://tr.im/BUjs »

New York Times launching San Francisco section *tomorrow* http://tr.im/BSw8 »

Behind NYT’s Bay Area section (and accelerated launch) is a quiet war with WSJ for national print dominance http://tr.im/wyru »

Why teeny-weeny Breakingviews is worth the same as BusinessWeek http://tr.im/BVuS »

New media war: The Daily Beast’s goal is to match The Huffington Post’s traffic by 2012 election http://tr.im/BSk4 »

Clickthrough rates for online ads are 27% lower on Black Friday, but that’s not the whole story http://tr.im/BSc4 »

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.