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LinkedIn users who prefer saying it over typing it can now do so with voice messaging on the professional network. The feature is currently rolling out on LinkedIn’s iOS and Android applications, with full availability expected in the next few weeks, and voice messages can be received on mobile and web. Senior product manager Zack…

Viacom has just purchased multichannel network AwesomenessTV, which reaches a purported 158 million subscribers and boasts 300 million monthly views, in another recent move to expand its portfolio. The network sale was valued at a reported $25 million, though Viacom declined to comment on the exact terms of the deal. AwesomenessTV, a Gen-Z audience-targeted media…

General elections are coming up in Brazil in October, and Facebook detailed some steps it is taking to ensure that the social network is not used to compromise those votes. Head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said in a Newsroom post that the social network recently took down a network of 196 pages and 87…

Some of the last European primeval forests in Romania are being illegally depleted every day, and Havas Germany has had enough. The agency has launched an initiative to raise awareness not only that these forests being destroyed, but also to inform people that they still exist in the first place. The devices affixed to the…

The legal entanglements involving anonymous whistle-blower group Diet Madison Avenue, MDC Partners, CP+B and that agency’s former chief creative officer Ralph Watson moved into a new phase this week as the network and agency filed a motion to have his lawsuit against them dismissed. In short, the lawyers argue that Watson must resolve any and…

Facebook used the latest installment of its Hard Questions series to remove some of the mystery behind the human side of its content-moderation process. Vice president of operations Ellen Silver said in her Hard Questions post that ensuring the safety of Facebook’s content reviewers is one of the reasons why details have been scarce, writing,…

The CBS board is looking into misconduct accusations against CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves which are expected to appear in a story by The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow. “All allegations of personal misconduct are to be taken seriously,” the board said in a statement, even before The New Yorker story was published. “The…

Three months after president and CEO Nancy Dubuc left the company for Vice Media, A+E Networks has settled on her successor. The company has tapped Paul Buccieri as president of A+E Networks Group. Buccieri, who has been president of the company’s in-house A+E Studios since 2016, had been a frontrunner for the job since Dubuc…

Twitter said its number of monthly users dropped in the second quarter and could continue to fall as it purges fake accounts.

Twitter responded to a tweet from President Donald Trump in which he accused the social network of “shadow banning” prominent Republicans. Twitter “SHADOW BANNING” prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2018 General counsel Vijaya Gadde and head…