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Tom Stocky / Facebook:
Facebook VP of search Tom Stocky: we found no evidence contractors manipulated Trending Topics to suppress stories of interest to conservatives — My team is responsible for Trending Topics, and I want to address today's reports alleging that Facebook contractors manipulated Trending Topics …
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@trippenbach, @raju, Fast Company and Recode
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Poynter media ethicist Kelly McBride says Facebook has a responsibility to be more transparent about how it curates news — Gizmodo ignited a social media firestorm today when it reported that curators for Facebook's “trending” section regularly put the kibosh on right-leaning news stories.
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Pressthink, @fmanjoo, @wikigrimoire, @brianstelter, Fortune, Business Insider and The Hill
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Facebook says it has “rigorous guidelines” in place to protect neutrality and consistency of its Trending Topics section, in response to Gizmodo report — Facebook has responded to allegations in a Gizmodo report that its contract news curators actively censored stories …
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@o_ema, @mikeisaac, Mediaite, @mathewi, @holmesdm, @ellenhuet, @gaberivera, The Daily Caller, The Week and Forbes
Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Ex-Facebook news curators describe suppressing conservative news, being instructed to include non-trending stories, removing news about Facebook itself — Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential “trending” …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and AI Monitor's Laura Rozen dispute article in The New York Times Magazine claiming they helped “retail” US-Iran nuclear deal — The New York Times Magazine editor defended the description, though he acknowledged the journalists should have been contacted for comment.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Periscope makes broadcasts permanent by default and introduces search — It's been a month now since Facebook rolled-out a dramatically improved design for live video — a design that borrowed liberally from Twitter-owned Periscope. Facebook's enormous audience, combined with its willingness …
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Periscope, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, CNET, Mashable, Broadcasting & Cable, The Drum, BetaNews, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Pocket-lint, Fortune, Variety, iMore and Business Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Viacom board considers reducing Sumner Redstone's pay again, after cutting it from $13.2M in FY2014 to $2M in FY2015 — Dismissed lawsuit over media mogul's mental capacity highlighted his health problems — The board of Viacom Inc. is considering whether to cut the pay …
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Variety, Wall Street Journal and @keachhagey
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Judge dismisses mental competency lawsuit brought against Viacom's controlling shareholder, Sumner Redstone, by ex-girlfriend
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Forbes, Talking Biz News, The Wrap, New York Times, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, CNBC and Reuters
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Channel 4 escapes privatisation after Downing Street intervention — Channel 4 will escape full privatisation following an intervention from Downing Street, The Daily Telegraph understands. — A series of other major reforms of the state-owned broadcaster remain under consideration, however, senior Government sources revealed.
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
McClatchy moving IT work to India's Wipro; sources say the move affects 120-150 jobs — The McClatchy Company, which operates a major chain of newspapers in the U.S., is moving IT work overseas. — The number of affected jobs, based on employee estimates, range from 120 to 150.
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Indy Week, Computerworld, @donlday, @dcgov, @sharon000 and @jbphebus
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
The BBC, with annual income of over $7B, faces intense budget pressure as UK government prepares plans for its new charter — LONDON — The British Broadcasting Corporation is variously seen as a crown jewel of British culture, a producer of refined entertainment and reliable news coverage …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Founders of Philadelphia's Billy Penn to launch a site in Pittsburgh by end of summer, using recent Gannett investment — The founders of Billy Penn, a local news startup in Philadelphia, are launching a second site in Pennsylvania's second biggest city, Pittsburgh.
Paul Carsten / Reuters:
China curbs Baidu healthcare ads business after student's death — Chinese regulators have imposed limits on the number of lucrative healthcare adverts carried by Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) following the death of a student who underwent an experimental cancer treatment which he found using China's biggest Internet search engine.
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Forbes, Asia Stocks to Watch, Bloomberg, Business Insider and Beyond Search
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