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6:35 PM ET, August 27, 2016

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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
The dominance of Drudge, Breitbart, Hannity, and Coulter and their Trump support have damaged Republican party, some other conservative media figures say  —  Sean Hannity, sitting comfortably in his air-conditioned New York studios on a hot August afternoon, was on a fiery rant.
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Alex Spence / Politico:
After the US election, alt-right website Breitbart News intends to launch in France, seeing a business opportunity in the rise of nationalist politics  —  LONDON — Stephen Bannon intends to get Donald Trump into the White House — and then he's set on conquering Europe.
Facebook Newsroom:
Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section  —  Today, we're making some changes to the Trending feature on Facebook that will make the product more automated and will no longer require people …
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Quartz:
Sources: Facebook letting go of entire Trending Topics editorial staff, consisting of 15-18 workers contracted through a third party  —  Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources leak 400-page “oppo” file shared inside Fox News in 2012 on Ailes biographer Gabriel Sherman, with details on property records and voter registration  —  The memo is dated January 5, 2012.  “To: Interested Parties.”  “Re: Gabriel Sherman.”
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
After Ailes, it remains unclear if prized anchor Megyn Kelly will renew her contract with Fox; if Bill O'Reilly stays on, one source says, Kelly is likely to go
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Spotify calls report that it demotes songs in search due to artists' exclusives with rivals “unequivocally false”  —  Spotify doesn't like exclusives.  But it says it won't bury Frank Ocean and other acts in its search results.  —  Spotify doesn't like it when big-name acts take their music to Apple or Tidal first.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify retaliates against artists who give exclusives to rivals by demoting their songs in search results and excluding tracks from promoted playlists
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Frank Ocean's exclusive, independent release of new album highlights tensions among artists, music labels, and digital services
Lauren Zumbach / Chicago Tribune:
Amazon is opening an offline bookstore in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood next year; the online retailer opened its first store in Seattle last fall  —  Construction signs are posted Aug. 24, 2016, at 3443 N. Southport Ave., the Lakeview neighborhood location where Amazon plans to open a Chicago bookstore in 2017.
The Verge:
Inside NBC's Olympic live streaming operation, which required a remote support staff of 1,100+ in Stamford, Connecticut  —  For NBC, this year's Olympic Games coverage was more than just a series of household rating points: it was a moment of truth in a fast-changing media world.
Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Reporters for Adelson's Las Vegas Review-Journal were told to ask candidates a not-for-publication question about public funding for Raiders stadium  —  Reporters for Sheldon Adelson's newspaper have been told to ask candidates if they support public money for the stadium proposed …
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Alibaba Pictures lost $69.4M in six months up to June, up from $22.7M in same period in 2015, as it used subsidies to build market share for online ticketing  —  Alibaba Pictures Group lost $69.4 million (RMB456 million) in the six months to June as it used subsidies to build the market share …
 
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
HBO and AT&T announce deal that adds HBO to AT&T's upcoming streaming bundle DirecTV Now as part of broader agreement keeping HBO on DirecTV and U-Verse
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NYT is launching digital-first teams to cover gender, education, and climate change as part of a strategy to disentangle itself from the daily print bureaucracy
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter is working on an anti-harassment tool to let users filter posts using keywords
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
NBCUniversal's partnership with BuzzFeed for Olympics Snapchat coverage garnered 35M viewers over two weeks, with 2.2B views and 230M minutes of consumption
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Sources: Tronc mulls a third purchase offer from Gannett, at more than $18 per share, and moves forward with a formal counteroffer
Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Study: frequent readers of partisan news sites are more likely to hold misperceptions even if they're aware of evidence
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

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