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Good News, Oil Companies! Fox Is Launching a Weather Channel

Fox Weather will reportedly be launching later this year. Sorry, what?

Facebook Threatens to Ban Australian Users From Posting Any News Content

Facebook has threatened to ban all news content for users in Australia if a law proposed by the Australian government moves forward, according to a press release published by the social media company late Monday. Facebook’s ban on news would apply to both news organizations and individual users in Australia and is intended to be…

Social Media Matt Novak

Australia Plans to Make Google and Facebook Share Ad Revenue With Publishers

The Australian government aims to force Google and Facebook to share advertising revenue with newspaper publishers in Australia, according to the country’s top financial authority, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. The details of an ad sales sharing plan still need to be worked out, but if it’s successfully implemented, it would be the first time in the…

Tech News Matt Novak

‘Knewz’ Is Krupert Kmurdoch’s Kgoogle Knews Kalternative

There’s some good knewz for people who don’t mind really dumb names and do believe that big tech has an anti-conservative bias—New Corp has been building an alternative to Google News, tentatively called Knewz.com. The Wall Street Journal reported that its parent company is planning on releasing the news-aggregation platform later this year, but could…

Tech News Jennings Brown

Disney, Do You Really Want to Give Rupert Murdoch More Money Right Now?

At a time when we’re seeing more and more companies attempting to avoid soiling themselves with the stench of the belching Trump machine, Disney is actively trying to give Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch more billions. It’s a gutsy move in the age of boycotts, and it shows how shallow Disney’s carefully crafted progressive image…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace Apparently Still Haunts Mark Zuckerberg

On Monday, Wired published an inside look at Facebook’s struggles with fake news over the last two years. It should come as no surprise that Mark Zuckerberg still doesn’t think of Facebook as a media company, but an eye-opening story from 2007 reveals that in MySpace’s heyday, Rupert Murdoch managed to intimidate the CEO in…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Report: Silicon Valley Played Trump Like a Fiddle at Last Year’s Tech Summit

Excerpts from an insider account of Trump’s bumbling first year in office are making big news on Wednesday. Among the nuggets of new information, a source recounts the aftermath of the president-elect’s first sit-down with tech CEOs at Trump Tower. At the time, it seemed that Trump was rubbing his new power in the faces…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Newspaper That Brought Down Theranos Learns Owner Is Major Investor

Once upon a time, Theranos was a promising biotech firm—raising $632 million from 2014-2015. In October 2015, everything changed when the Wall Street Journal published the first of its many exposés that revealed the company’s struggle to develop the blood-testing technology it promised. The Journal’s stories ultimately led to the company’s very ugly public unraveling.…

Tech News Eve Peyser

If Fox Buys Warner Bros., Could Batman Team Up With The Movie X-Men?

The big news of the day is that Rupert Murdoch wants to buy Time Warner, which would mean way more consolidation in book publishing. And tons of layoffs in the media world. But also, I’ve been wondering all day… could we see Batman meet Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine? Top image: ex-m on Deviant Art. Intellectual property…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This Is News Corp’s New $300 Tablet For Schools

Amplify, which is an educational wing of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, has just announced that it’s launching a $300 Android tablet for use in schools. The New York Times reports that the 10-inch device will be officially rolled out at SXSWedu later today. But we already know that a Wi-Fi-only model will cost $300, plus…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Rupert Murdoch Admits the WSJ Is Still Being Hacked

If you thought the Wall Street Journal only announced that it had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers once the debacle was over—think again. Rupert Murdoch has tweeted that the newspaper is still coming under sustained attack. While Murdoch doesn’t offer any substantive evidence, it’s clear that this is no small problem: we know that the…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Anonymous Cowers in the Face of Rupert Murdoch (Updated: Anonymous Speaks)

Almost a year ago today, Anonymous hacked one of Australian super villain Rupert Murdoch’s crown jewels: The Times. Why? To spread a false report of his death. A year later, he’s shutting them up like rowdy children. Times have changed. The tweet war that wasn’t started with a little casual invective from @YourAnonNews, one of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Outfoxed: Revisiting Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism

Last week, Rupert Murdoch finally admitted to the obvious phone-hacking cover-up at his now shut-down tabloid News of the World—not that anyone had any doubts about it before his confession. And just this morning, a report was released by a UK Parliamentary panel declaring the media mogul unfit to lead his own empire. My, how…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Rupert Murdoch Admits He Screwed Up MySpace “In Every Way”

Media baron, professional evil white guy archetype, and technologist Rupert Murdoch recently took to Twitter regarding his company’s historically awful purchase of MySpace. So, what they do wrong? Literally everything. Luckily, Murdoch—who can’t even properly format the name of the company he bought for $580 million and watched crawl into the abyss of history—”learned lots…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Rupert Murdoch Is Now On Twitter!

Check it out, kids, our favorite octogenarian media tycoon has joined Twitter. I have to admit I love his Twitter picture. And he’s pretty active too. Here’s a sample: Vacations great time for thinking. St Barth’s too many people. Thoughts best kept private around here. Like London! Happy 2012. May itbe better than all experts…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How News of the World Hacked Everybody’s Phones

For a while, leaving your cell unattended seemed like the biggest threat to phone security. But this recent business is a reminder that there are savvier ways someone can violate your phone—without even touching it. Details are still emerging as to how, exactly, News of the World reporters got into everybody’s giblets. But here are…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

Stephen Colbert Is Really Concerned About Hacking

The News of the World phone-hacking; the Citibank hacking; the hacking cough of cold and flu season fast approaching…oh yes, Colbert is worried about them all. [Gawker] https://gizmodo.com/if-the-news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal-were-made-into-a-5822114

Tech News Kat Hannaford

If the News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal Were Made Into a Movie…

The phone-hacking scandal that saw Rupert Murdoch close the UK’s News of the World newspaper and several high-profile resignations has reached a crescendo. Thankfully there’s a faux movie trailer to make light of the situation. [Thanks, Petah!] https://gizmodo.com/rise-of-the-hacker-journalist-5818184

Tech News Kat Hannaford

In Defense of Sleazy Journalism

As delightful as it’s been to watch Rupert Murdoch’s British fiefdom slowly drown in a foul swamp of wickedness and criminality, it’s worth remembering that all good reporters are amoral monsters and that without a lot of highly questionable behavior on the part of sordid hacks around the world, we wouldn’t know half the things…

Tech News John Cook

News of the World Reporters Probably Tried to Hack 9/11 Victims’ Phones, Too

And now for some news that probably won’t shock you: According to a report in the Daily Mirror today, reporters from Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World asked a former NYPD officer who was working as a private investigator to access the phone records of British 9/11 victims. The Mirror’s anonymous source claims that: “This…

Tech News Jeff Neumann

Good News, Oil Companies! Fox Is Launching a Weather Channel

Facebook Threatens to Ban Australian Users From Posting Any News Content

Australia Plans to Make Google and Facebook Share Ad Revenue With Publishers

‘Knewz’ Is Krupert Kmurdoch’s Kgoogle Knews Kalternative

Disney, Do You Really Want to Give Rupert Murdoch More Money Right Now?

Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace Apparently Still Haunts Mark Zuckerberg

Report: Silicon Valley Played Trump Like a Fiddle at Last Year’s Tech Summit

Newspaper That Brought Down Theranos Learns Owner Is Major Investor

If Fox Buys Warner Bros., Could Batman Team Up With The Movie X-Men?

This Is News Corp’s New $300 Tablet For Schools

Rupert Murdoch Admits the WSJ Is Still Being Hacked

Anonymous Cowers in the Face of Rupert Murdoch (Updated: Anonymous Speaks)

Outfoxed: Revisiting Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism

Rupert Murdoch Admits He Screwed Up MySpace “In Every Way”

Rupert Murdoch Is Now On Twitter!

How News of the World Hacked Everybody’s Phones

Stephen Colbert Is Really Concerned About Hacking

If the News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal Were Made Into a Movie…

In Defense of Sleazy Journalism

News of the World Reporters Probably Tried to Hack 9/11 Victims’ Phones, Too

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