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4:50 AM ET, August 16, 2014

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Bloomberg:
Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera Over $500 Million Current TV Deal  —  Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore sued Al Jazeera, the satellite network controlled by the Qatari royal family, over a $500 million deal to purchase his network, Current TV, according to filing in state court in Wilmington, Delaware.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
48 news orgs send letter protesting ‘lack of information’ in Ferguson  —  Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press  —  On Friday, 48 media organizations signed a letter to the Ferguson, Missouri chief of police, the St. Louis County chief of police and the Missouri State Highway Patrol …
Will Oremus / Slate:
Why a Young Writer Secretly Deleted Her Own BuzzFeed Post  —  As I wrote earlier, BuzzFeed has been taking heat for deleting thousands of old posts earlier this year without telling anyone.  (Gawker's J.K. Trotter was the first to report on the purge.)  The site's founder and CEO …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Telegraph “Forgets” Its Own Stories Documenting Google “Right To Be Forgotten” Removals  —  Newspaper pulls recent articles intended to “keep alive” other stories that were removed from Google in the EU.  —  The Daily Telegraph's recent campaign to document all its stories that have been removed …
Discussion: @jeffjarvis and Telegraph
Mike Williams / BBC:
Premier League warns posting videos of goals online breaks copyright laws  —  Premier League warns about posting goal videos online  —  The Premier League has told Newsbeat they're going to clamp down on fans posting unofficial videos of goals online.  —  Thousands of goal Vines were posted on social media during the World Cup.
Scott Dadich / Wired:
The story behind Wired's photo session with Edward Snowden and an American flag  —  Call Me Ed: A Day With Edward Snowden  —  I was in a Russian hotel room, waiting for the biggest photo shoot of my life.  My suite's blackout curtains were drawn, the better to conceal …
Mónica Guzmán / GeekWire:
Seattle police asked citizens to watch what they tweet, raising free speech questions  —  The problem with the police's plea to ‘Tweet Smart’  —  Considering this week's events in Ferguson, Missouri, isn't it smartest for the public to tweet more real-time police activity in some emergencies, not less?
Selena Larson / ReadWrite:
In Exposing Followers, Medium Fails Readers  —  If Medium wants to turn itself into a respectable publisher, it probably shouldn't behave like a social network.  —  On Wednesday, the company announced it would make lists of followers public to Medium members.  Writers and readers can see who's reading whom.
Discussion: @txvoodoo, Medium and @counternotions, Thanks:@owenthomas
Anne L. Kim / Roll Call:
FCC Extends Deadline for Second Round of Net Neutrality Comments  —  People looking to file net neutrality reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission will have a few extra days to do so.  In a public notice, the FCC announced that the deadline for filing the second round of comments …
Chris O'Brien / Medium:
Tech journalist Chris O'Brien of the LAT says farewell to Silicon Valley after 15 years  —  Au revoir, Silicon Valley  —  On August 20, I'm moving from Silicon Valley to Toulouse, France.  My rock-star wife got a three-year post-doc at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse.
Agence France-Presse:
Hong Kong media tycoon hits back against fake obituary  —  A Hong Kong media tycoon and founder of the liberal Apple Daily newspaper, Jimmy Lai, released a barbed video response to a fake obituary that was published by a rival newspaper.  —  The obituary of Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing …
Discussion: Gawker and @feliciasonmez
Gary Strauss / USA Today:
Icahn takes 6.6 percent stake of Gannett, wants role in company's planned split  —  Carl Icahn places bet on Gannett  —  Activist investor Carl Icahn has taken 6.6% stake in Gannett, saying he wants a role in the company's planned split of its TV and newspaper divisions.
 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
 
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