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Laura Sydell / NPR:
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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Boing Boing, @stanfordusa, @realsesmith, @sydell and @macloo, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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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
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
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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@juliaioffe, @mcfaul, International Business Times, @paulkrugman, @keitholbermann, @randileeharper, @jeffreycarr, @fsecure, @sarahkendzior, @ryanbeckwith, @mcfaul, @nichboy, @laurilovex, Neowin, Fossbytes, Tech Wire Asia, @ltsutskiridze, Law News, Softpedia News, Washington Post, bookforum.com, Journalism News and Mashable
The Guardian:
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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@niemanlab
Roy Greenslade / The Guardian:
Trinity Mirror's Chief Executive Simon Fox and the paper's board should resign for failing to protect their source, Robert Norman — rinity Mirror has no right to own newspapers. Its board should resign. Read the story of what the publisher did to Robert Norman, as detailed in a Press Gazette interview …
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Press Gazette, @djbond6873, @briancathcart and @pressgazette
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Amelia Tait / New Statesman:
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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Washington Post, TechCrunch, The Daily Caller, CNET, @chrislhayes, The Next Web, VentureBeat, The Independent, WIRED UK, International Business Times, Mashable and The Verge
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 …
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@mikefancher, @clarajeffery, The Daily Caller, @clarajeffery, @donmoyn, @docrocktex26, @dhinkel, @farhip, @thegarance, Mother Jones, @comradewong, @joeconason, @brendannyhan, @dankennedy_nu and Bloomberg
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Digg CEO Gary Liu leaves to take up CEO role at Alibaba-owned South China Morning Post; Digg's editorial director Anna Dubenko also leaving for a job at the NYT — Digg, the former internet sensation, is losing the CEO that has nursed it back to good health.
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Digg, @thingstodoinsg, South China Morning Post and Anna Dubenko, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The problem with an algorithmic solution for Facebook's fake news problem is that many news stories are partially accurate — Many posts fall into gray area: neither entirely true or false — Fact checkers: Promote our work and cripple repeat offenders — Last week, a story claiming …
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Techdirt, Neowin, abc7chicago.com, Business Insider, @gerryfsmith, @jeannasmialek, @mathewi, BuzzFeed and @garrettreim
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Jane Martinson / The Guardian:
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
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
UK publisher Newsquest asks readers of its South London papers to write their own stories, including one title left without a dedicated reporter following cuts — 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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@jamesrbuk and @jess_shankleman
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.
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The Guardian, @v_chad, @nandorvila, @stephennein, @jcstearns and @goodpostguy6465
David Walker / PDNPulse:
Court dismisses photographer Carol Highsmith's federal copyright claims in $1B lawsuit against Getty; Getty and Highsmith settle remaining state law claims — Three weeks after a federal judge gutted photographer Carol Highsmith's $1 billion copyright claim against Getty Images …