Mediagazer: Verizon and Hearst combine Complex Media, RatedRed.com, and Seriously.TV into digital video joint venture Complex Networks, with Rich Antoniello as CEO (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Verizon and Hearst combine Complex Media, RatedRed.com, and Seriously.TV into digital video joint venture Complex Networks, with Rich Antoniello as CEO — Verizon and Hearst have named their digital-video networks joint venture Complex Networks, and they have put Rich Antoniello, formerly CEO of Complex, in charge of the operation.

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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 …

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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.

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