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• Party police raids, drug stings and divas: The Drum's Cannes Lions 2018 gossip column

  23-06-2018 18:00
  Cannes Lions is over for another year, but as the rosé turns sticky on the floor of the Gutter Bar and you think of ways to explain the ROI on entertaining clients with €30 burrata every night to your finance manager, there’s one thing that’s sure to follow you home on that Jet2 flight – all the gossip.
  What happens in Cannes famously doesn’t stay in Cannes. The Drum’s moles were on the ground, and our very own pub – The Drum Arms – whic
  
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• Party police raids, drug ‘stings’ & divas: The Drum's Cannes Lions 2018 gossip column

  23-06-2018 18:00
  Cannes Lions is over for another year, but as the rosé turns sticky on the floor of the Gutter Bar and you think of ways to explain the ROI on entertaining clients with €30 burrata every night to your finance manager, there’s one thing that’s sure to follow you home on that Jet2 flight – all the gossip.
  What happens in Cannes famously doesn’t stay in Cannes. The Drum’s moles were on the ground, and our very own pub – The Drum Arms – whic
  
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• Reddit adds News section as beta feature on iOS

  23-06-2018 14:37
  Reddit has unveiled a News tab on iOS after trying an alpha version earlier.  
  Reddit users can find the dedicated news tab on the top left side on their app which consists of news posts from various topics such as politics, science, and sports.
  Users can scroll through those topics across various countries and then tap on it to find out the trending stories in that category.
  Reddit has further set guidelines for the communities that filter into the experience, as w
  
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• Al Jazeera to highlight assaults on journalists with 'The Demand Press Freedom' campaign

  23-06-2018 13:34
  Al Jazeera has launched The Demand Press Freedom campaign one year after Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE launched a blockade against Qatar and called for the Doha-based network to be shut down.
  As part of the campaign, the network will host a series of events and international forums to highlight the conditions of journalists arrested across the world, assaults on media organisations, and attempts to silence the press.
  According to Reporters Without Borders, 35 journalists have bee
  
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• Netflix fires chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland

  23-06-2018 11:50
  Netflix has fired its chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland for his use of insensitive remarks.
  Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, in an internal memo, said the decision was taken as a result of Jonathan's "descriptive use of the N-word on at least two occasions at work showed unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity, and is not in line with our values as a company."
  In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Friedland said: "I’m leaving Netflix after seven years. Leade
  
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• Facebook updates its fact-checking program to fight fake news

  23-06-2018 11:23
  Facebook has introduced several updates which includes removing fake accounts, partnering with fact-checkers, and promoting news literacy with the aim to fight false news.
  Among other updates, Facebook has also expanded its test to fact-check photos and videos , taken action against new kinds of repeat offenders and has also expanded its fact-checking program to new countries.
  Facebook further highlighted how it is using machine learning to identify fake news. For example, a fact-checker in
  
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• The diary of a 40-year-old Cannes virgin

  23-06-2018 09:00
  Earlier this year, I went to a Mark Ritson talk. Our industry, he said, often takes far too much pleasure in declaring everything ‘dead’. By all accounts, TV is dead, Facebook is dead, radio is definitely dead. And as for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity? Well, visiting it must be like a stroll through a rather picturesque cemetery.
  So I’m happy to report that, in my humble opinion, rumours of the deaths of both Cannes and creativity hav
  
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• Google unveils verification process for organisations to manage their presence

  23-06-2018 05:09
  Google will now allow any person, organization, sports team, event and media property with a Knowledge Panel to get verified so that they can manage their presence.
  Any person or organisation will need to first search for their name or organization on Search and then click or tap the prompt below the Knowledge Panel to begin the verification process.
  Once verified, they can suggest factual changes to information in their Knowledge Panel and suggest a featured image. 
  Lauren Clark,
  
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