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Trump initially backed out of meeting with New York Times editors and reporters on Tuesday via a series of tweets, claiming “terms and conditions” were changed — President-elect Donald Trump backed out of a meeting he had called with The New York Times on Tuesday.
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New York Times says Trump team requested to change the partly off-the-record meeting to be fully off-the-record, which it refused — The president-elected launched Twitter tirade against the “failing” paper before backtracking hours later. — NEW YORK President-elect Donald Trump canceled …
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Sources: Reince Priebus urged Trump to cancel NYT meeting in case he faced questions he couldn't answer, incorrectly told him NYT had changed terms of meeting — On Twitter Tuesday morning, President-elect Donald J. Trump was the media-bashing firebrand many of his supporters adore …
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Sources: Trump used his private meeting with high-profile TV figures to berate them for dishonesty and shortsightedness, criticizing some in the room by name — It had all the trappings of a high-level rapprochement: President-elect Donald J. Trump, now the nation's press critic in chief …
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Trump answers questions on the record with New York Times staffers, striking a conciliatory tone despite what he called previous “rough” coverage — President-elect Donald Trump continued his media grievances tour on Tuesday, visiting the New York Times for both an off-the-record chat …
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TV journalists erred in talking with Trump off the record, becoming props in political theater; The New York Times was right to get an on-the-record session — On Monday, some of the biggest names in TV news trooped into Trump Tower for an off-the-record meeting with the president-elect.
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Politico national editor Michael Hirsh resigns after posting addresses of white nationalist Richard Spencer on Facebook — Michael Hirsh, national editor of Politico Magazine, resigned Tuesday after posting the address of White nationalist Richard Spencer online and urging people to “exercise your rights as decent Americans.”
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AppNexus, second to Google in the automated ad serving market, bans Breitbart News from using its network, citing several violations of its hate speech policy — AppNexus takes a stand as bigger rivals, Google and Facebook, face scrutiny over their handling of ‘fake news’
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Silicon Valley insiders Peter Thiel and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt say The Observer's owner Jared Kushner effectively ran Trump's campaign — It's been one week since Donald Trump pulled off the biggest upset in modern political history, and his headquarters at Trump Tower in New York City is a 58-story, onyx-glassed lightning rod.
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Sources: Facebook has quietly built a tool to enable monitoring and suppression of posts based on location, to get back into China; Zuckerberg defended effort — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.
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Trump and other billionaires have laid the groundwork for using libel laws and the extortionate legal fees they come with to gag the press — A small group of superrich Americans — the president-elect among them — has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented legal assault on the media.
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Draft Washington Post column included a quote from Trump about being sexually attracted to his then 13-year-old daughter; the quote was later removed — The line appeared in a draft of Richard Cohen's syndicated column, but vanished prior to publication. — Washington Post columnist …
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