Echobox Weekly Digest: Mobile headlines, Trump leaks and Google talks about Ads

Feb 23, 2017 · 3 min read

Thirteen of the week’s most interesting stories on artificial intelligence, journalism and social media, curated by the team behind the world’s first AI that understands the meaning of content. This week: Mobile-specific headlines, targetting Trump leakers and insights into Google Ads.

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Artificial intelligence

Zuckerberg removed a line about AI from his Facebook manifesto

Mark Zuckerberg's vision for AI was initially far creepier than what he shared in his 6,000-word manifesto…

mashable.com

European Parliament calls for robot law, rejects robot tax

European lawmakers called on Thursday for EU-wide legislation to regulate the rise of robots, including an…

www.reuters.com

Journalism

Gizmodo ads target potential Trump leakers

With the Trump administration proving to be a leaky ship in its early days, one news outlet is launching an ad blitz to…

www.wsj.com

The New York Times experiments with mobile-specific headlines

After 10 months of A/B testing its headlines seriously, the New York Times has started slicing its audience into finer…

www.digiday.com

How BBC Persian is using Instagram to get around Iran‘s censors

Last month, a fire tore through an iconic Tehran high-rise building, killing more than 20 firefighters and injuring…

www.niemanlab.org

News radio makes huge gains during election year in US

In a recent post on its website, ratings giant and market research company Nielsen noted that this election season…

www.thedrum.com

Plan to make Google pay for news hits barriers

Europe's press leaders thought they had scored a major victory last autumn when the European Commission threw its…

www.politico.eu

Facebook

Facebook Messenger might start offering you suggestions about what to buy, report says

Suggestions to buy products will be injected into conversations on Messenger, a technology blog reports…

www.cnbc.com

Facebook updates Analytics for Apps with improved segmentation and domain-level reporting

Facebook has launched an update to Analytics for Apps, its cross-platform analytics platform for developers who want to…

www.techcrunch.com

Advertising

Twitter tweaks direct messages for brands to sound more human

Twitter is once again tinkering with direct messages, this time to let brands show customers that they're communicating…

www.venturebeat.com

Under pressure to prove Its Ads actually work, Google opens up

Google rules search and excels at turning your searches into ad revenue. Its ability to convince people that its way of…

www.wired.com

Data visualisation

WEB Du Bois: Retracing his attempt to challenge racism with data

Any African American to be admitted to Harvard University in 1888 had to be exceptionally gifted. But that description…

www.theguardian.com

Where jobs are threatened when robots drive trucks

How it could play out: It could start with 'platooning:' One entry point to significant truck automation could be to…

www.axios.com

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