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12:37 PM ET, December 5, 2016

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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
The shooter who attacked a pizzeria after fake news controversy likes InfoWars and host Alex Jones on Facebook; InfoWars published many stories about Pizzagate  —  The real-life consequences of a made-up conspiracy theory swirling around a popular D.C. pizzeria became all too real when a gunman walked into the venue Sunday afternoon.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Man who decided to investigate a Washington DC pizzeria at center of fake news story which tied it to a child abuse ring, arrested on scene after firing a rifle
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch praises his father's handling of Fox News after Roger Ailes' departure, plays down idea company will pursue big acquisitions  —  The 21st Century Fox chief also says that the company isn't concerned with “empire building.”
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Jasper Jackson / The Guardian:   21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch was personally involved in deletion of emails at News International during early part of phone hacking scandal, court hears
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump says he wouldn't skirt interviews with the press by tweeting his thoughts directly if they covered him “accurately and honorably”  —  President-elect Donald Trump on Monday suggested he wouldn't skirt the media by posting directly to his millions of social media followers …
Discussion: @tosyandcosh and @whataimeewrites
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Joshua Topolsky's new site The Outline launches, with the goal of being a next-generation version of The New Yorker; it may sell its ad tech to other publishers  —  Venture-backed site debuts with Snapchat-inspired navigation and three top sponsors  —  Joshua Topolsky's 2017 goals are nothing if not lofty.
Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed:
Snapchat avoids the fake news epidemic by vetting publishers who appear in Discover, hiring human editors for Live Stories, and limiting re-sharing  —  Being a control freak pays off.  “It's impossible for somebody to go rogue in Discover.”  —  Facebook emerged during the U.S. election …
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
A look at Gab, the social network launched in August that has become a haven for the far right and now hosts 98K accounts  —  When the white nationalist leader Richard B. Spencer was suspended from Twitter recently, he hopped over to YouTube to address his supporters.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Ex-Breitbart reporter Patrick Howley claimed on Facebook he planted hecklers at Clinton rallies while working at the site, later deleted his post  —  During the campaign, one sub-story that developed revolved around hecklers that would appear at rallies and campaign events for Hillary Clinton's campaign.
 
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Johana Bhuiyan / Recode:
On Sunday, Jim VandeHei tweeted out a request for writers with 10K+ newsletter subscribers, raising speculation about what his new site, Axios, will look like
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Oklahoma-based investigative news site The Tulsa Frontier ditches $30 per month paywall, becomes a nonprofit
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
The editor in chief of Melbourne's The Age, Mark Forbes, resigns following accusations of sexual harassment
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Ben Sullivan / Motherboard:
The Free Press Action Fund wants money raised through the sale of public TV spectrum to be spent on community media and local journalism
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

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