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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 …

Discussion: @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.

Discussion: Pressthink, @fmanjoo, @wikigrimoire, @brianstelter, Fortune, Business Insider and The Hill

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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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 …

Discussion: @o_ema, @mikeisaac, Mediaite, @mathewi, @holmesdm, @ellenhuet, @gaberivera, The Daily Caller, The Week and Forbes

Leon H. Wolf / RedState:

Right-leaning advocacy site RedState, named as a site avoided by Facebook's human curators, says it has not seen instances of its content being suppressed — I'm getting a lot of inquiries from the media and from just people who know me about this Gizmodo article titled “Former Facebook Workers …

Discussion: Business Insider, The Hill, Re/code, Guardian, Mashable and Mediaite

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.

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 …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: Variety, Wall Street Journal and @keachhagey

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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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.

Discussion: Guardian, Politico, C21Media, Guardian and The Drum

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.

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.

Discussion: 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 …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Till Faida, CEO of Eyeo, maker of AdBlock Plus, says it's close to 1B downloads and is installed on over 100M active devices — Ad blocking software's usage on the web, and now mobile, has forced the media and publishing industry to look to new revenue models.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Adblock Plus and …, ZDNet and Fast Company

Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Sources: To combat ad-blockers, Google said to be exploring an ‘acceptable’ ads policy

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