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6:45 PM ET, August 11, 2016

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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, will leave the company in the coming weeks to focus on health-and-wellness startup Thrive Global  —  Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief to focus on health-and-wellness startup Thrive Global
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Source: Arianna Huffington is leaving the Huffington Post because Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo threatened her website's status as a dominant property  —  Hint: It rhymes with “Yahoo”  —  Arianna Huffington surprised the media world this morning when she announced that she was leaving the Huffington Post …
German Lopez / Vox:
The Daily Beast reworks post about using Grindr in Olympic village in Rio after complaints reporter outed gay athletes, compromising their safety  —  The Daily Beast has a bizarre story in which reporter Nico Hines got a few dates on Grindr while stationed in Rio de Janeiro to cover the Summer Olympics.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Ten former employees shed light on Twitter's 10-year failure to stop abuse on its platform  —  Ariel Waldman ran out of options.  Waldman, then a community manager and blogger, had signed up for Twitter in March 2007 and in months had become one of the platform's 100 most followed accounts.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Sources: in 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive replies to President Obama during a Q&A session  —  In 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies to President Barack Obama during a Q&A session, sources tell BuzzFeed News.
Matt Drange / Forbes:
Ex-Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio, on verge of bankruptcy, due in Florida court today as Hogan lawyers seek more details about his assets  —  On Wednesday night, current and former Gawker Media employees gathered at the company's Manhattan headquarters to celebrate 14 years of independent journalism ahead …
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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
The last party before Gawker Media's bankruptcy sale felt like a giddy wake, with speeches by a still-defiant Nick Denton  —  Since its beginning in 2002, Gawker has been a veritable schadenfreude machine, taking delight in deflating the egos of New York's cultural elite, among other, perhaps less worthy, targets.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Adblock Plus finds a way to block Facebook's new, supposedly unblockable ads, beginning what could be a long game of cat and mouse  —  Facebook's plan to stop ad blockers has already been foiled.  Adblock Plus has found a way to strip ads from Facebook, even when they're served up in Facebook's new ad blocker-proof format.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: 21st Century Fox expects multiple settlements after Ailes allegations; number of accusers coming forward in internal investigation hits double digits  —  More women have come forward as the media giant carries out an internal probe  —  For 21st Century Fox, the controversy stemming …
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Politico's Brexit coverage gave its traffic a 300% boost in June, sets the stage for expansion into the European market  —  Politico may be a niche title, but its European expansion has been fast.  —  Its newsroom expansion in London and Brussels this year put it in a strong position …
Discussion: Politico and Guardian
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Trump's use of ambiguous language lets him say whatever he wants and puts the onus of interpretation on reporters  —  Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona, on March 19, 2016.  Photo by Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons.  —  Soon after Donald Trump kinda …
 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
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