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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
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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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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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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Juan Buis / The Next Web:
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 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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon hires Steve Woolf, formerly global head of networks at AwesomenessTV, as head of programming for Go90 — Steve Woolf, formerly global head of networks at AwesomenessTV, has joined Verizon's Go90 mobile-centric video group as head of programming. — At Verizon, Woolf will oversee …
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 — 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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Michael Tegos / Tech in Asia:
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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Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed:
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.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
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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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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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