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In the news this week, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel admits to bankrolling Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media. Vice Media lays off 20 staffers but plans to expand with offices in San Francisco and Hong Kong. And European Union regulators want streaming services like Netflix to fund local content. Our Metric of the Week is Twitter character counts, and our special guests are Soraya Chemlay & Catherine Buni, who wrote an eye-opening piece on content moderators at YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms. NOTE: In our interview with Soraya Chemlay & Catherine Buni, Hany Farid was identified as a Dartmouth College technologist. He is, in fact, a professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth.