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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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YouTuber replaces video saying Barron Trump may be autistic with a retraction and apology after Melania Trump seeks takedown via Hogan lawyer Charles Harder — Trump reportedly says her husband's foe Rosie O'Donnell made matters worse. — Melania Trump is threatening a lawsuit …
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TMZ.com, The Wrap, World Politicus, @justin_kanew, @sarahcuda, @sarahcuda, @alexckaufman, @mmasnick, Hollywood Life, New Urban Legends, The Daily Caller, Law News and Just Jared


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


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


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 Guardian, The Huffington Post, Fast Company and Business Insider


Business Insider announces that President and COO Julie Hansen is leaving at the end of 2016 after eight years with the company to launch a startup — Julie Hansen, who oversaw the site's business operations, is leaving to launch a start-up — Business Insider's chief operating officer and president …
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FishbowlNY, Thanks:@steverubel


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


Facebook shouldn't take responsibility for fact-checking news because decisions about truth aren't clear-cut, and rules about sources could sway news coverage — We finally got a grudging mea culpa from Mark Zuckerberg: an admission that fake news is a significant problem that his social network must help solve.
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@mat, @mekosoff, @jessicalessin, @antonejohnson, CNBC, @wexler, @mantzarlis, @mat, @chafkin, @timrace and @athertonkd


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


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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@kalenskyj, @craigsilverman, @eurocrat and @buzzfeedben


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


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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Fast Company, Reuters and @sisario