Mediagazer: Facebook's VP of product management Adam Mosseri says the company is actively working on tech to prevent fake news stories from showing up in Trending section (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

5:40 PM ET, September 14, 2016

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Kelly Liyakasa / AdExchanger:

Google and AppNexus sever ties with ComboTag, the partner company behind Adblock Plus' ad exchange — Google has severed its relationship with ComboTag, the Israeli startup that sourced buyers for Adblock Plus' recently launched Acceptable Ads Platform. — “We were just as surprised …

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EU publishes proposals for new copyright rules, which would allow news publishers to demand payment from aggregators like Google News — Copyright plan may curb online use of news articles, content — EU also seeks to bolster rights of music performers, authors

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Mark Scott / New York Times: New EU proposals would make VOD content from services including Netflix, Amazon Prime, and BBC iPlayer more readily available across all member states

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Facebook's VP of product management Adam Mosseri says the company is actively working on tech to prevent fake news stories from showing up in Trending section — Following the controversial firing of the editorial team who managed the Trending Topics that appear next to Facebook's News Feed …

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, New York Magazine, @mathewi, @jayrosen_nyu, @joshconstine and The Next Web

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Spotify hits 40M paid subscribers, up 10M in five months, compared to Apple Music's growth of about 4M over roughly the same period — Spotify today confirmed it has reached the 40 million paid subscriber milestone. — In a tweet shared by Spotify's official Twitter account today …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Music Ally, MacRumors, Fast Company and Recode

NorthJersey.com:

After purchasing North Jersey Media Group in July, Gannett to make 200+ staffers redundant — North Jersey Media Group announced Wednesday an ambitious restructuring designed to make its newsroom and sales department more responsive to the growing digital demands of readers and advertisers.

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Rafat Ali / Skift:

Travel news site Skift expands into food and drink coverage, will host and distribute Chefs+Tech newsletter written by veteran journalist Kristen Hawley — The future of dining out, as told by the Chefs+Tech weekly newsletter. — Skift Take: Chefs+Tech is a natural expansion of the Skift umbrella …

Discussion: @erichippeau, @luke_beatty, @rafat, @chefstech and @dangillmor, Thanks:@steverubel

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

News literacy is an urgent mission during a fact-challenged presidential election, which has obscured the line between truth, opinion, propaganda, and fiction — Veteran journalist Alan Miller tells the story of the high school students who, years after the fact, didn't know that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

Discussion: @adamjohnsonnyc, @mrdanzak, @sulliview, @jgkoomey, Vocativ and The FJP

Politico:

More details emerge about CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski's involvement with Trump's presidential campaign: he is advising its top officials — Ousted Trump campaign manager playing a widening role behind the scenes. — Among the Trump campaign staffers and VIPs mingling in a back room …

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Kurt Wagner / Recode:

New Twitter app launches on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Xbox One, as the site prepares to stream its first NFL game on Thursday — Twitter also built apps for Amazon and Xbox. — On Thursday, Twitter will stream its first NFL game, a Thursday Night Football matchup between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Ad Age, Variety, @pkafka, Adweek, Pocket-lint, CNET and Fortune

David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:

Fact-checking debates in real-time is a burden moderators are not as well suited to handle as seasoned staffers at Politifact or The Washington Post — Presidential debate moderators often go into hiding as they prepare to carry out their thankless jobs. But Fox News' Chris Wallace caused …

Discussion: @mlcalderone

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Presidential debate moderators must keep control, assert truth in real time, ask follow-up questions, and more

Discussion: The Atlantic, www.wnyc.org, @jayrosen_nyu, @rolandsmartin, @rezaaslan, @dangillmor and @dangillmor

Jason Leopold / VICE News:

VICE files FOIA lawsuit against the IRS, demanding it turn over Trump's tax returns, and against the FBI, seeking info on two controversial campaign comments — For more than a year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has claimed that he would “love” to release his tax returns …

Discussion: Scripting News

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

New weekly newspaper in London, City Matters, will cover Fleet Street and plans initial circulation of 20K with staff of five journalists — A new ‘hyperlocal’ weekly newspaper is to launch covering the City of London. — City Matters will fill a local news gap for the area which currently has no dedicated title.

Discussion: @city_matters and HoldTheFrontPage

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Peter Kafka / Recode:
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