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Experts: a Russian propaganda campaign to undermine Clinton helped spread fake news during election using botnets, networks of sites, paid human “trolls”, more — The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created …
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Google has been warning prominent journalists and professors that their accounts are under attack from “government-backed attackers” — A flurry of social media reports suggests a major hacking campaign has been uncovered. — Google is warning prominent journalists and professors …
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Reddit CEO Huffman's decision to delete and alter comments on Trump thread amounts to censorship and has eroded the site's credibility with users — The ruling of a High Court judge to allow the body of a 14-year-old girl to be cryogenically preserved is another glance at a potential scientific utopia.
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CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of porn to viewers in Boston on Thanksgiving night, due to a programming error by regional partner RCN — We all mess up every now and then — and that's totally okay. But someone is probably getting fired for this mistake.
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The Independent, Variety, International Business Times, The Daily Caller, Maxim, The Sun, BGR and Mashable


Charlie Hebdo to launch German edition December 1 with initial print run of 200K, available every Thursday for €4 — The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, whose Paris offices were the target of a jihadist massacre in January 2015, will launch a German edition on 1 December in the wake …
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Trinity Mirror's Chief Executive Simon Fox and the paper's board should resign for failing to protect their source, Robert Norman — Trinity Mirror has no right to own newspapers. Its board should resign. Read the story of what the publisher did to Robert Norman, as detailed …
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Streaming video service Hooq launches in Singapore with offline viewing, and Singtel partnership for data bundles, at a monthly fee of $6.20 — Streaming video service Hooq is finally launching in Singapore, the company announced today. The Singaporean startup is opening up its video streaming …
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The Tech Portal, Mumbrella Asia, Techgoondu, AsiaOne Digital, The Straits Times and Capacity Media


How the rise of the Internet, Facebook, and fake news has fueled anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar — The internet brought Donald Trump to Myanmar. Or, at least that's how Shar Ya Wai first remembers hearing about the Republican president-elect. — “One day, nobody knew him.


UK publisher Newsquest ask readers of its South London papers to write and post their own stories following editorial cuts and redundancies — Newsquest has asked readers of its south London titles to write the news themselves and publish it online as part of a “simplified process” for sharing their stories.
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Q&A with Jestin Coler, registered Democrat and founder of Disinfomedia, which owns fake news sites including the Denver Guardian, on ad networks, money, more — A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election.
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@jesnowden, @kimmaicutler, Boing Boing, @realsesmith, @sydell, @stanfordusa and @macloo, Thanks:@ravichandrans25


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 …


Daily Mail was the only newspaper besides FT not to put verdict of Jo Cox's murder trial, where a neo-Nazi was found guilty, on its front page — The story is relegated to page 30, where readers will look in vain to find any reference to the political context of the MP's death