In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 17th June 2018 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. Facebook bug set 14 million users' private posts to public Facebook’s series of privacy gaffes seem to be unrelenting. According to a CNN report, the social media platform suffered from a glitch that caused changes to the privacy settings of its users. The bug which was active on the platform in May changed the suggested privacy settings of some users to public, potentially making visible to everyone posts and updates meant for just friends. Read it here Inshorts plans to use AI to curate news feeds News aggregator app Inshorts is adding an AI-based algorithm called Rapid60 that can automatically summarize a full-length news article to a 60-word news brief along with a headline to its platform, the Economic Times has reported. Inshorts CEO Azhar Iqubal told ET that human curation comes with a limitation on the number of articles they can produce. With the new feature, they can curate over one lakh articles per month. Currently, they curate 10,000 articles a month. Read it here HT Media earnings call Q4FY18 : Tight cost control, slow ad revenue and more HT Media reported a net profit of Rs 75 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 (Q4 FY18), up 194% from Rs 25.5 crore in the same quarter last year, and down 40% from Rs 124.3 crore in the previous quarter.…
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