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Loren Grush / The Verge:
RCN, CNN's regional partner in Boston, says it can find no evidence porn was aired; story was based on a series of tweets which news orgs failed to fact-check — Last night, a twitter account by the name of @solikearose tweeted out a surprising image of CNN broadcasting porn instead …
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Ishmael N. Daro / BuzzFeed:
The CNN porn glitch appears to have happened, but only affected one viewer; initial reports claimed it was widespread for viewers in Boston — A woman in Boston who tried to watch CNN on Thanksgiving says her cable box showed her hardcore porn instead. — Twitter user @solikearose shared …
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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
One group WaPo cited in its Russian propaganda story is associated with Cold War proponents; the second group appears to have launched only recently — One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over “fake news” and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea …
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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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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Mark Jamison, one of two advisers appointed by President-elect Trump to examine the FCC, has said the agency should only license radio spectrum — FCC should handle spectrum licenses, but nothing else, Trump advisor wrote. — A Donald Trump advisor who will help set a new direction …
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Nic Dawes / Columbia Journalism Review:
Advice for US media on dealing with a new political reality, from Human Rights Watch's head of media Nic Dawes, who formerly worked as an editor in India — Photo via National Park Service Digital Image Archives — Dear friends in American journalism, — Ordinarily, it is you who offer …
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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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Matt Pressberg / The Wrap:
Report: Facebook's Q1-Q3 2016 US ad revenue exceeded Comcast's and Disney's ad sales, first time the social network's ad revenue overtook traditional media's — Facebook has become most Americans' main source for news, and it now brings in more U.S. ad revenue than the country's biggest media companies …
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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 …
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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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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.
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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