Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news & problematic content →

“To mark the launch, Snapchat is letting users in the country decorate their selfies with interactive Snapchat Lenses featuring the publishers’ mastheads.”

“If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. As digital media sellers compete for ad dollars in a fragmented world, they’re betting it’s better to work together than to individually lose out on ad dollars entirely.”

“In short, given how fans’ habits are changing, our focus continues to be providing high-quality, distinctive content at any minute of the day on any screen.” —RB

It’s more than twice the size of Twitter, which reported better-than-expected earnings today.
—RB

“It invested in Great Big Story, an internally launched video publisher that creates a handful of short videos each week. Mr. Zucker said the company purposefully didn’t include CNN as part of its name so people didn’t think it was going after breaking news. And Great Big Story is successfully drawing people who aren’t CNN viewers.”

“According to a new report conducted by PwC US for the Interactive Advertising Bureau, mobile ad spending accounted for 51% of the record $72.5 billion in total U.S. digital ad spending last year.” —SW

Including The Guardian, Expressen, the BBC, Metro, Dagbladet, and Axel Springer.