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• PewDiePie’s Fans Lash Out After He Donates $50,000 To Jewish Organization Anti-Defamation League
• Google And Facebook To Face Antitrust Probes Investigating Their Impact On The Digital Ad Market

  State attorneys from Texas and New York will separately launch official antitrust investigations into Google and Facebook next week, looking for signs that the companies have harmed consumers and smaller competitors by oppressively dominating the digital advertising space and mishandling users’ data.

  
• Ensemble Digital Signs YouTube Groups ‘Jesse And Mike,’ ‘8 Passengers,’ And Blogger Jennifer Todryk

  Talent manager Larry Shapiro’s Ensemble Digital Studios has signed three new creators for representation across all areas of entertainment: YouTube brother duo Jesse and Mike, YouTuber family 8 Passengers, and parenting blogger Jennifer Todryk.

  
• What’s The Point Of Web Fests?

  While web series are no longer the new kid on the internet block, the idea of celebrating them as a format of their own still confounds people. Tribeca and Cannes are known entities, famous for catapulting films from Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino into the spotlight and offering the ability to rub shoulders with celebrities at glitzy parties, but digital episodic creators still struggle to answer the question: “What’s the point of a web fest?”

  
• Bernie Su’s Livestreamed Interactive Sci-Fi Series ‘Artificial’ Brings Twitch Its First Emmy
• Benjamin ‘DrLupo’ Lupo Inks Multi-Year Equity Deal With Esports Conglomerate ReKTGlobal
• ‘Spill’ Is A Drama YouTuber Who’s Gotten Nearly 100 Million Views In 11 Months. But She Might Not Be A Real Person.
• YouTube Sues User Who Allegedly Tried To Extort ‘Minecraft’ Creators By Filing Fraudulent Copyright Claims
• Disney+, ESPN+ Subscribers Might Face Crackdowns On Password Sharing After Disney/Charter Deal
• YouTube Links Up With Taylor Swift For Live Event Ahead Of ‘Lover’ Album Release
• U.K. Vlogger Marina Joyce Found Safe By Police After Going Missing For 10 Days
• New Study Demonstrates YouTube’s Role In Far-Right Radicalization, Spread Of Conspiracies In Brazil