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Source: Bytedance spent ~$1B advertising TikTok in 2018, heavily promoting its short video app on Facebook and Instagram, and becoming Snap's biggest advertiser (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Source: Bytedance spent ~$1B advertising TikTok in 2018, heavily promoting its short video app on Facebook and Instagram, and becoming Snap’s biggest advertiser  —  China’s first big hit in the U.S. uses an advanced algorithm to personalize its video-sharing app, and parent Bytedance’s enormous ad spending … Source: Bytedance spent ~B advertising

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Cloud computing, AI, and low-cost sensors have given rise to a slew of weather forecasting startups that think incumbents are vulnerable to new business models (Susan Adams/Forbes)

Susan Adams / Forbes: Cloud computing, AI, and low-cost sensors have given rise to a slew of weather forecasting startups that think incumbents are vulnerable to new business models  —  “Nasty.”  That is the professional opinion of Joel Myers, the CEO of AccuWeather, about the weather on Mother’s Day in New York City … Cloud

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A look at a dispute among Wikipedia administrators and some on the Wikimedia Foundation board after a prolific, long-serving administrator was banned for a year (Joseph Bernstein/BuzzFeed News)

Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News: A look at a dispute among Wikipedia administrators and some on the Wikimedia Foundation board after a prolific, long-serving administrator was banned for a year  —  The once-derided open-source encyclopedia is the closest thing the internet has to an oasis of truth. A look at a dispute among Wikipedia administrators

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Ted Cruz touting a recent undercover Project Veritas YouTube sting, supposedly proving censorship and bias, shows how these misleading attacks can be successful (The Verge)

The Verge: Ted Cruz touting a recent undercover Project Veritas YouTube sting, supposedly proving censorship and bias, shows how these misleading attacks can be successful  —  James O’Keefe’s stunt playbook keeps giving conservative lawmakers ammunition, even if the evidence is all phony Ted Cruz touting a recent undercover Project Veritas YouTube sting, supposedly proving censorship

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