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GUESTS: 

• 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 Bitcoin and the

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