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In a series of tweets, Trump criticized CNN over its story debunking his voter fraud claim and retweeted criticism of the network from his supporters — Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter Monday night and into early Tuesday morning over a CNN report refuting his unsubstantiated claims of mass voter fraud on Election Day.
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Melania Trump, represented by Hulk Hogan case lawyer Charles Harder, threatens to sue a YouTuber over a video claiming Barron Trump may be autistic — Trump reportedly says her husband's foe Rosie O'Donnell made matters worse. — Melania Trump is threatening a lawsuit over a YouTube video …
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TMZ.com, @mmasnick, @justin_kanew, @sarahcuda, @alexckaufman, @sarahcuda, World Politicus, The Wrap, Hollywood Life, New Urban Legends, The Daily Caller, Law News and Just Jared
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Canada has lost about half of its journalists in the last decade, sources say, as government assesses future without country's two largest newspaper companies — Canada's press woes are bad enough unto themselves, but they also serve as a sign of earlier winter for the U.S. press.
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Reynolds Center and Politico
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Since Election Day, amid criticism from President-Elect Trump, the NYT has netted 132K paid subscribers, up 10x year-over-year — Despite endorsing Hillary Clinton and enduring Donald Trump's repeated criticisms, The New York Times said paid subscriptions online and in print have soared since Election Day.
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Fortune, @rolandscahill, @mathewi, @brentnyt and Recode
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Quartz has received a $240K Knight Foundation grant to launch the Quartz Bot Studio, a group focused on developing three bot-related projects this coming year — The Quartz Bot Studio (which the publication intends to maintain after the grant funding is used up) will develop new bots …
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@perryhewitt and FishbowlNY
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Kellogg Co. pulls its ads from right-wing news site Breitbart; the move comes following pressure from activists after a Kellogg ad was spotted on the site — Kellogg Co. is pulling its ads from the website Breitbart News, the right-wing news organization whose former chairman Steve Bannon …
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The Huffington Post, Fast Company and Business Insider
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The Guardian has moved to HTTPS, partly to stop ISPs tracking what readers are reading, information the paper believes “may be used against them” — Our content has now been served over HTTPS for two months and we thought it was time to share some of the reasons, processes and challenges behind the project.
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@glenngabe
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Documents: Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers Ltd, owner of The Sun, registered as an official Leave campaign group, spent nearly £100K pushing for Brexit — A week before the U.K. referendum on EU membership, the newspaper group that owns Britain's the Times and the Sun registered …
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The Independent
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SiriusXM agrees to pay up to $99M over 10 years to settle royalty lawsuits with artists for broadcasting pre-1972 songs, separate from major records' payout — SiriusXM, the satellite radio giant, has agreed to pay up to $99 million to settle a group of lawsuits over an obscure aspect …
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Questions raised about policing of speech on social networks, after Facebook initially refused to remove a far-right group's map of Jewish businesses in Berlin — BERLIN — Yorai Feinberg was going about his daily routine this month when his social media feeds and cellphone began lighting up.
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Engadget and Fortune, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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Popular Italian political party, Five Star Movement, is operating a network of websites and social media accounts dedicated to spreading fake news to millions — The Five Star Movement controls a network of official sites and supposedly independent news outlets that spread misinformation across the internet.
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@craigsilverman, @eurocrat and @buzzfeedben
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UK's Investigatory Powers bill is now law, mandates all web and call histories be stored, available to select agencies; journalists' records need judge sign-off — Home secretary hails ‘world-leading’ laws, which include forcing web and phone companies to collect browsing histories
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USA Today, BetaNews, @rj_gallagher, @gembarrett, Press Gazette, Engadget, WIRED UK and Business Insider
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The UK's Digital and Cultural Minister Matt Hancock says the government is currently looking into the rise of fake news and considering its implications — Digital and culture minister Matt Hancock is “considering the implications of the dissemination of fake news on social media sites”.
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AT&T's DirecTV Now streaming TV service launches Nov. 30 starting at $35/mo. for 60+ channels, up to $70/month for 120+ channels — [UPDATE: Channel lineup below the fold.] — AT&T has officially unveiled details about its upcoming streaming TV service called DirecTV Now.
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