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This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. kevin roose Casey! casey newton Happy new year. kevin roose Happy new year. It’s so good to be back in the studio. How are you? casey newton I am great and I am extremely excited to be back making “Hard Fork.” kevin roose How was your break?

AL-MUKALLA: Yemen government officials and rights groups have urged the Iran-backed Houthis to stop torturing four abducted journalists held inside their prisons and to urgently send them to hospital as they are suffering from life-threatening diseases. Yemenis say that the Houthis have subjected the journalists to physical and psychological torture in detention, throwing them into solitary confinement and depriving them of vital medicine. Tawfiq Al-Mansouri, Akram Al-Walidy, Abdul… Source link

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter. It’s debuting as source code for developers to build on, then being launched as a functional application for Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists in June. Harassment Manager can… Source link

The Google and Facebook logos, the words “media, news, media” and the Australian flag are displayed in this illustration photo taken February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register SYDNEY, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Australia’s ground-breaking law forcing platforms like Google and Facebook to pay local publishers for news faces an unlikely test case: a website that experts say uses fake journalist profiles that has won… Source link

The crypto news site Decrypt is on a hiring spree, luring editorial talent away from Yahoo Finance and Fortune.  In one key hire, Decrypt has appointed Daniel Roberts, formerly editor at large at Yahoo Finance, as editor-in-chief. He starts in March. Decrypt also named Jeff John Roberts, a … Source link