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March 12, 2018, 4:45 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture, which gives its readers access to ~200 magazines for $10/month, as it doubles down on content “from trusted sources”  —  As the debate continues over fake news and the role that aggregators like Facebook have played in spreading it …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Eddy Cue Q&A on the line between free speech and open platforms, plans to integrate Texture content into Apple News, why Apple likely won't buy Disney, Netflix  —  We're on the ground at SXSW 2018 in Austin, Texas where Apple's Eddy Cue is about to take the stage to discuss media curation with CNN's Dylan Byers.
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
YouTube could be one of the most powerful radicalizing tools of this century, given its billion users and algorithms that recommend ever more extreme videos  —  At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
A year after its launch, Microsoft says Teams is used by 200K organizations and will soon have support for Cortana and inline message translation  —  Microsoft has never shared how many individuals are using Teams, its chat-based collaboration tool that's part of Office 365 and competes …
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Dropbox seeks to raise as much as $648M in its IPO, plans to sell 36M shares at $16-$18, which would give it a valuation of ~$7.5B at the midpoint of the range  —  Dropbox, the online file storage company, said on Monday that it hoped to raise as much as $648 million in its forthcoming stock market debut …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Twilio launches Flex, a programmable contact center platform with a full graphical user interface  —  Earlier this year we reported that Twilio was going to launch a full contact center solution called Flex on March 12 — lo and behold, today is March 12 and Twilio today announced the launch …
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Inside Reddit as it rolled out the October 2017 policy update that resulted in the ban of numerous subreddits, including ones for Nazis and bestiality  —  The trolls are winning.  How do we fix life online without limiting free speech?  —  Which Web sites get the most traffic?
Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip:
Study: reporters driving Facebook engagement come from hyper-partisan sources like Breitbart and the Daily Wire; two in the top 50 write for fake news sites  —  With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Decentralized data storage startup Storj appoints former Docker CEO Ben Golub as its new executive chairman and interim chief executive  —  Decentralized data storage startup Storj is hoping to boost its growth with the hire of a new executive chairman and interim chief executive.

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