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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Q&A with Facebook news hoaxer Paul Horner, who thinks his sites got Donald Trump elected: “there's nothing you can't write about now that people won't believe” — What do the Amish lobby, gay wedding vans and the ban of the national anthem have in common?
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Brent Griffiths / Politico:
President Obama weighs in on fake news, warning it could poison politics so that “we won't know what we're fighting for” — President Barack Obama weighed in on the growing debate over fake news, warning that it could poison politics to the point that “we won't know what we're fighting for.”
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Analysis shows top 20 fake election news stories generated more engagement on Facebook than the top 20 election stories from 19 major news outlets — A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.
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Global fact-checking organization offers to help Facebook with spotting and debunking fake claims and strengthening users' ability to identify false news — By The International Fact-Checking Network — Last week you wrote that the problem of fake news and false information online is particularly complex.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's Bloomberg show, With All Due Respect, to end on January 20; they are in discussions to stay on as contributors and columnists — The prominent political journalists will give up day-to-day roles following Donald Trump's inauguration.
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Michael Calderone / Huffington Post:
Bloomberg News Washington bureau chief Megan Murphy named new editor of Bloomberg Businessweek amid plans to relaunch the magazine in Q2 of 2017 — NEW YORK ― Bloomberg News Washington bureau chief Megan Murphy has been named editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, according to a staff memo.
Kara Swisher / Recode:
AOL to lay off 500 employees, or 5% of its staff, today in its corporate units; CEO says resources will be shifted to mobile, video, and data offerings — There will be more changes next year if the deal to buy Yahoo is completed. — AOL will announce layoffs of 5 percent of its staff today …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros. signs deal to acquire full control of Machinima; sources say the deal values Machinima slightly under $100M — Deal values gamer and fandom digital programmer at slightly under $100 million: sources — Warner Bros. announced that it signed an agreement to acquire full control of Machinima …
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Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologizes for neo-Nazi ad, blaming automated system for error — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized for running an ad sponsored by a white supremacist group in violation of its own policies. — Dorsey blamed Twitter's automated system …
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Matt Burgess / WIRED UK:
With funding from Google, UK-based Full Fact is aiming to build two automated fact-checking tools, Trends and Robocheck, by the end of 2017 — The UK fact-checkers are hoping to publish two automatic tools by the end of 2017 — Fake news is on the agenda.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
To cover President-elect Donald Trump, journalists should emphasize their watchdog role, represent all citizens, and be scrupulously fair and relentlessly tough — Well, it's official — the new word of 2016, according to Oxford Dictionaries, is “post-truth.”
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Columbia Journalism Review, @sdkstl, @a_picazo, @katiekutsko and @cdriebusch
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK parliament passes Investigatory Powers bill, allowing bulk surveillance, hacking of mobile devices and networks, and more — The House of Lords has passed the Investigatory Powers Bill meaning that is likely to be in force in a matter of weeks. — The Bill has already been passed …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Interview with radio host and Infowars operator Alex Jones, on his recent phone call with Trump, keeping the president-elect accountable to grass-roots voters — When Donald J. Trump emerged from the haze of his surprise victory in the presidential election, one of his first calls was apparently …
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