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5:45 PM ET, March 22, 2013

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists  —  This tweet looks pretty real, doesn't it?  —  It's not, though.  I faked that tweet using a Web service named “Let Me Tweet That For You.”  It's pretty simple — you type in a Twitter username and a message …
The Stream:
News from Anonymous  —  A branch of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, @YourAnonNews (YAN), announced on Wednesday that it plans to start its own publicly funded news site.  The move will allow the account to operate without the restrictions of companies like Twitter and Tumblr, where it is currently hosted.
Phillip Smith / MediaShift Idea Lab:
Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How They Can Speed Up  —  I present your winner (or loser?) for slowest loading feature article, the Chicago Tribune, at 16.68 seconds, almost 6 megabytes of data, and with more than 300 requests for resources to display the page in question.
Discussion: Poynter and eMedia Vitals
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Bloomberg Businessweek expands non-postal delivery  —  Bloomberg Businessweek is expanding its alternate delivery program via a partnership with Gannett, the magazine will announce Monday.  Subscribers in Cincinnati, Asheville, N.C., and 13 other markets will by July be able to receive …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The New Republic Fires Timothy Noah  —  On Thursday, New Republic columnist Timothy Noah received an email from editor Frank Foer asking him to meet at 2:30 pm on Friday.  That's when Foer told Noah that he was out of a job.  —  When Noah got to the New Republic's lobby, on the way out the door …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Changing trains: The Local East Village, NYU's hyperlocal blog, moves from The New York Times to New York magazine  —  NEW YORK — New York University's hyperlocal East Village blog has found a new home and a new name.  After a two-and-a-half-year partnership with The New York Times …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Times
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
American News Consumers Have Gained the World but Lost Their Backyards  —  The Internet affords cheap, easy access to priceless information.  But local news coverage is a casualty of its rise.  —  Is the American news media in better shape than ever before?
Discussion: Street Fight
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Filing Says Glenn Beck's Network TheBlaze Is Raising $40M  —  TheBlaze, a set of online ventures run by conservative pundit Glenn Beck, is raising $40 million in new funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  —  The filing states that the company has raised $1.5 million so far.
Economist:
Binding the press: A rotten deal  —  THE regulation of the British press is an area where this newspaper usually treads lightly.  It is not just that The Economist has an interest in opposing irksome rules—albeit a less obvious one than the tabloids, many though not all of them owned by Rupert Murdoch …
Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
D.me: Is this the new Delicious?  —  Looks like the folks over at Delicious may have a case of Digg envy: I stumbled across a seemingly new site called D.me today that serves up a continuous stream of stories in a design that looks a lot like the recently-relaunched Digg.com, with a bit of Pinterest mixed in for good measure.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski steps down  —  Julius Genachowski, who has served as FCC Chairman since 2009, is stepping down.  The FCC has announced on its website that Genachowski will be leaving his position “in the coming weeks;” an official meeting will be held later this morning.
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Posthaven Launches In Public Beta, Has Saved 850K Posts Since Posterous Announced Its Shutdown Date Of April 30th  —  Once Twitter acquired Posterous, we knew that it was going to shut down at some point, as there was no way that the micro-blogging service would support a fully featured alternative platform.
 
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Erik Wemple:
Huffington Post deletes anti-Wal-Mart comments
Rhonda Richford / Hollywood Reporter:
Twitter Faces Criminal Complaint Over Hate Speech Hashtags in France
Reuters:
Analysis: Big Tech tests the waters of the music stream
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Brian Merchant / Motherboard:
For Over a Year, BP Has Worked Hard to ‘Clean Up’ Its Wikipedia Pages
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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room
David Cameron / The Review Review:
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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