Passing the RSS buck! Is unmoderated podcasting spreading misinformation? Do podcasting apps need better content moderation reporting tools? Twitter to support Value4Value boosts.

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Valerie Wirtschafter  -  The Brookings Institution

Andrew Craissati - Auddy



NEWS HEADLINES: 


Podcasting is "an ideal tool to inject false or misleading
information into mainstream discourse while going undetected",
according to research from Valerie Wirtschafter 


The Australian High Court found that, by running the Facebook
pages, the media groups participated in communicating defamatory
material posted by third parties and were therefore responsible
for the comments.


Apple has been forced to allow media apps to link to websites
for payment. The change should allow simpler methods to pay for
third-party content that isn’t subject to Apple’s 30% commission.
The new policy takes effect in early 2022.


RedCircle has landed $6m in funding. The company monetises
podcasts, selling host-read ads or programmatic advertising, as
well as a method of selling podcast subscriptions.


In Germany, Alex Jacobi criticises the state of podcast
statistics: notably, the lack of standard data export and APIs
from podcast hosts for statistics. He has proposed OPAF data
exchange standard (Open Podcast Analytics Format).


Podnews has published its first ranker - the people and
companies who we’ve written about over the past 90 days.


PodNews updated their guide on how to earn value4value from
your podcast.


Twitter has confirmed that it is working on a tipping process
using



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