Salon turns off comments and banks on email newsletters to generate identity connections for targeted ads

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Salon had seen the nature of its comments section change, as disinformation, misinformation and COVID lies made it harder to moderate.

“Salon had seen the nature of its comments section change, as disinformation, misinformation and COVID lies made it harder to moderate.”
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