Mediagazer: Filings show Stephen Bannon-founded charity Government Accountability Institute paid $1.3M to two Breitbart journalists and $376K to Bannon over four years (Robert O'Harrow Jr/Washington Post)

10:15 PM ET, November 23, 2016

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Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:

Filings show Stephen Bannon-founded charity Government Accountability Institute paid $1.3M to two Breitbart journalists and $376K to Bannon over four years — Donald Trump's chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon accepted $376,000 in pay over four years for working 30 hours a week …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, @clarajeffery, @farhip, @docrocktex26, @comradewong, @dankennedy_nu, @joeconason, @brendannyhan and Mother Jones

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

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.

Discussion: Vanity Fair, @clarajeffery, @feministabulous, @ericboehlert, @connieschultz, New York Times, Media Matters for America and Reuters

Hadas Gold / Politico:

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 …

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

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.

Sue Shellenbarger / Wall Street Journal:

Study of 7.8K students from middle school through college finds most can't spot fake news; 82% middle-schoolers couldn't tell “sponsored content” from real news — Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism

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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:

Publishers' trade body DCN sends letter to Facebook and Google CEOs calling on the two companies to do more to tackle fake news — Digital Content Next, a US trade body that represents premium online publishers, has sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai …

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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The problem with an algorithmic solution for Facebook's fake news problem is that many news stories are partially accurate

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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

Encrypted messaging app Telegram launches Telegraph, a long-form publishing tool similar to Medium and Quip; no account is needed to publish posts — Telegram is branching beyond being a messaging app into something more well-rounded. The company on Tuesday launched Telegraph …

Discussion: Telegram, TechCrunch, Telegraph, @telegram, Online Journalism Blog, The Verge, @stopsatgreen, Mashable, The Next Web, Fast Company and Engadget

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

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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Michael Astor / Associated Press:

Committee to Protect Journalists honors Christiane Amanpour and journalists from Egypt, El Salvador, India, and Turkey at International Press Freedom Awards — NEW YORK (AP) — The Committee to Protect Journalists honored journalists from India, El Salvador, Turkey and Egypt on Tuesday …

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Columbia Journalism Review:

Reporters from USA Today, CNN, Univision, The Washington Post, Politico, Slate, Fox News, National Review, Reuters, and more, on Trump's campaign — *This series was reported in partnership with Guardian US. Sign up to be a Guardian Member, or follow Guardian US on Facebook or Twitter.

Discussion: The Guardian, @v_chad, @nandorvila, @stephennein, @jcstearns and @goodpostguy6465

McKenzie Funk / New York Times:

How Cambridge Analytica built psychological profiles of Facebook users with personality quizzes and consumer data, and then targeted voters with Trump ads — The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz — What you do online can help elect a president. — INSIDER PODCAST — Good, Bad and Mad: Andrew Rosenthal on the News

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Damien Gayle / The Guardian:

A proposal to censor online videos depicting non-conventional consensual sexual acts is currently passing through the UK's Parliament; campaigners condemn it — Campaigners label bill targeted at online pornography a ‘prurient’ intervention that will take Britain's censorship regime back to pre-internet era

Discussion: @oneilllo, TechCrunch, @prisonplanet, The Verge, @huwlemmey, @alexdymock, BetaNews and Business Insider

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