Periscope is encouraging users to report vile or inappropriate comments, which will now trigger what the live-streaming app calls a “flash jury” of other users watching the same stream. “Periscope will ask this flash jury, which consists of five other random users, if they also consider the comment abusive or offensive,” Recode reports. “If the majority agrees with you, the commenter will be placed in a one minute time-out with commenting disabled … Repeat offenders will be muted for good.”

Publishers are waiting for Facebook to weigh in on investor Peter Thiel’s shady involvement in Gawker’s legal troubles. As Recode writes: “What does Facebook, which has been trying mightily to court the media industry … think about Thiel’s actions, especially given he is a prominent director of the company?” Well? So far, the social giant is staying quiet on the matter.

Per a new partnership with Spotify, Twitter users can now listen to 30-second previews of songs in their timeline and Moments. In semi-technical terms, Twitter’s audio cards now support Spotify. “Twitter first launched audio cards in 2014 with iTunes previews and later worked with SoundCloud,” TechCrunch notes.

Google is rolling out new local search ads on Google and Google Maps. “The company is also bringing what it calls more ‘branded and customized experiences’ for marketers to Google Maps,” Search Engine Land reports. Going forward, Map users can expect to see “promoted pins” along their route or nearby.

Google is about a week away from launching Magenta -- a research project that will explore the use artificial intelligence to create art. “The group has about six researchers now, and will invite other academics to help try to solve the problem of creative machines,” Popular Science reports. “Douglas Eck, a researcher on the Magenta project, said that the group will first tackle algorithms that can generate music.”

Publishers can now embed live Reddit content on their properties. “Journalists won’t have to rely on links and screenshots … they can just drop the actual posts with the best quotes into their stories, TechCrunch writes. “If you’re a reader, that means you might start to see more Reddit posts on other sites, the same way you can see embedded tweets and YouTube videos.”

It sounds like a meeting that Mark Zuckerberg held with prominent conservatives to reassure them of Facebook’s news neutrality went well. “It did not, to me, feel like a photo op,” SE Cupp, a conservative columnist and CNN commentator, tells CNN Money. “I got a very strong sense of concern and curiosity about our take on this problem.” Others in attendance included Glenn Beck, Jim DeMint, and Tucker Carlson.

Amid public protests over an environmental disaster, Facebook has been blocked in Vietnam as a part of a government-imposed crackdown on social media. “Citizens have been using Facebook to organize rallies, which is likely the cause of the shutdown,” TechCrunch reports. “In addition to helping protesters organize, social media has been used to share photos of people at rallies, holding up handwritten signs that read ‘I choose fish.’”

A hacker is trying to sell the emails and passwords of 117 million LinkedIn members on a “dark web” illegal marketplace, Motherboard reports. “For LinkedIn, the lesson is the same as four years ago: don’t store passwords in an insecure way,” it writes. “Another lesson is that even old hacked data can sometimes be valuable, given that some of these passwords might still be valid.  

Twitter has a new board member in Debra Lee -- CEO of Viacom’s Black Entertainment Television since 2005, and its chairman since 2006. “Lee has been with BET for most of her career, joining in 1986 as a VP and the company’s general counsel,” TechCrunch notes. “She has also been the company’s chief operating officer and served as its president in the ensuing years.”