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5:15 PM ET, May 12, 2016

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Sam Thielman / Guardian:
Leaked documents show human intervention at almost every stage of Facebook's news operation  —  Exclusive: Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization  —  Leaked documents show how Facebook …
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Justin Oskofsky / Facebook Newsroom:
Facebook explains how Trending Topics works, publishes internal guidelines, reiterates that discrimination against sources of any political origin isn't allowed  —  At Facebook, we stand for connecting every person — for a global community, for bringing people together, for giving all people a voice …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook director of product management for News Feed says injecting a point of view doesn't scale, Trending Topics team's priority is bug fixing  —  A year ago today, Facebook introduced Instant Articles — a quick-loading news format, hosted on Facebook's own servers …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
BBC white paper: Broadcaster to be regulated by Ofcom for the first time and run by new unitary board  —  The BBC is set to regulated by Ofcom for the first time and run by a unitary board appointed by the government and the BBC itself.  —  The move means Ofcom, rather than the BBC Trust …
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Oliver Wright / The Independent:
BBC iPlayer catch-up viewers to pay full licence fee as part of changes announced by government
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Charter-TWC Deal Clears Final Hurdle With California Approval  —  California Public Utilities Commission votes for merger  —  Deal for New No. 2 U.S. cable provider could next week  —  Charter Communications Inc. won final regulatory approval to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. and become …
CBS News:
60 Minutes' Morley Safer retires after 46 seasons  —  Longtime CBS newsman Morley Safer retires after a career spanning seven decades, unmatched for its impact, scope and style  —  Morley Safer, the CBS newsman and 60 Minutes' longest-serving correspondent, will formally retire this week.
Leon Neyfakh / Slate:
Apple Destroyed My Will to Collect Music  —  I once used iTunes to organize albums, bootlegs, demos, and deep cuts—until it made that nearly impossible.  Will Apple Music finish the job?  —  Last week, an astonishing blog post by a man named James Pinkstone circulated on social media.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Apple denies report that it will end iTunes music downloads within the next few years  —  “Not true.”  —  The future of music is streaming, not downloads.  —  But that doesn't mean Apple, the company that essentially invented the market for music download sales, is going to stop selling downloads anytime soon.
Financial Times:
Sources: private equity group General Atlantic is frontrunner for controlling stake in oil-price reporting agency Argus Media at valuation of about $1.38B  —  General Atlantic has emerged as the frontrunner in an auction to buy a controlling stake in Argus Media, which would value the energy reporting company at around £950m.
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook changes video ad rules after Mic tests new banner ad overlays on editorial content, forcing Mic to remove ads  —  Publisher had placed custom banner ads atop video content, then Facebook shut down the tactic  —  It isn't unusual for Facebook 's advertising and content policies …
John Eggerton / Multichannel News:
FCC's Tom Wheeler defends broadband privacy proposal at Senate subcommittee hearing  —  Wheeler says it is simply extending historic privacy compact to broadband net … FCC chairman Tom Wheeler told senators at a subcommittee hearing Wednesday that his broadband privacy proposal was an effort …
 
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Reuters study: 24% of UK journalists say publishing unverified info is sometimes justified
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024

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In its annual report, Apple warns of future products perhaps never exceeding the iPhone's profitability, “geopolitical tensions”, and AI features' safety risks
 
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