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Aarti Shahani / NPR:
Sources describe how Facebook's community operations team, which consists of several thousand people, rapidly judges flagged content — Audio will be available later today. … Mark Zuckerberg — one of the most insightful, adept leaders in the business world — has a problem.
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Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
How two fake news writers, self-proclaimed yellow journalists, say they found success sharing stories with shock value on Facebook — LONG BEACH, Calif. — Fewer than 2,000 readers are on his website when Paris Wade, 26, awakens from a nap, reaches for his laptop and thinks he needs to, as he puts it, “feed” his audience.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Social media giants including Facebook have a responsibility to help defend truth, as Trump and some of his advisers have embraced and spread falsehoods — Friday night, the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg went on his vast social network to convince an expanding chorus of critics …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook should hire an executive editor and give that person the resources, power, and staff to make sound editorial decisions — Two days after the election of Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg found himself on the hot seat. — At a tech conference, an interviewer grilled the Facebook chief executive …
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
How a tweet with false claims from an account with about 40 followers got amplified by a Reddit group and partisan media to become a talking point for Trump — How a misinformed Twitter post the night after the presidential election fueled a nationwide conspiracy theory and became a talking point …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal is investing another $200M in BuzzFeed, which will collaborate with NBCU's Content Studio under extended advertising-sales relationship — NBCUniversal announced Monday that it has made an additional $200 million investment in BuzzFeed — on top of the $200 million it invested last year.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Jim VandeHei hires FCC's press secretary Kim Hart to oversee tech coverage at his new site — It's Kim Hart, currently the press secretary at the FCC. — Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei's new company doesn't have a name yet. And he has yet to explain exactly what the company will be, exactly.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Trump's off-the-record meeting with top network executives and anchors comes amid serious concerns over the press' access to the incoming administration — The off-the-record gathering comes amid serious concerns over the press' access to the incoming administration.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Publishers' app store ratings are being driven down by right-wing trolls leaving one star reviews and comments accusing the publishers of left-wing bias — Two new fronts have opened up in the battle between the left and the right over media bias: the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly claims some TV hosts colluded with Trump, warning him they would ask tough questions in order to appear credible; Hannity responds defensively — Earlier today, Fox News host Megyn Kelly appeared on MediaBuzz and made the claim that many pro-Trump hosts at various networks were …
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: ABC is exploring the possibility of launching a 24-hour digital news channel in 2017; it follows ABC's experiments with Facebook Live — The election is over, but ABC is exploring the possibility of a new 24-hour digital news channel. Our distribution tipsters say that some months ago …
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Alex Claridge / KentOnline:
Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos' talk at English grammar school canceled after UK Department of Education's counter extremism unit intervenes — A Kent school has cancelled a talk by a controversial ex-pupil after the Department for Education's counter extremism unit stepped into the furore.
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