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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 — WASHINGTON — A man fired a rifle on Sunday inside a Washington pizza restaurant that has been subjected to harassment based …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova, who co-founded a news site, warns journalists that under Trump, the US could become like Russia — MIAMI BEACH — On Tuesday, Donald J. Trump wrote on Twitter that people who burn the flag should be punished with “perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!”
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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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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.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Inside the symbiotic relationship between Trump and Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who talk to the president-elect a few times a week — While critics lash out, MSNBC's morning talker builds a pipeline to Trump Tower. — The on-again, off-again relationship between Donald Trump …
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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube will create a database to share hashes of terrorist images and recruitment videos removed from their services — Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are coming together to help curb the spread of terrorist content online.
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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
Facebook has no interest in fixing the fake news problem because doing so would lower user engagement which, in turn, would impact on its ad revenue — Setting aside the need to fix its current PR nightmare, Facebook has no objective interest in fixing its fake stories problem.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Kristin Roberts, who resigned as Politico national editor last week, hired for newly created role as executive editor of McClatchy Washington — Kristin Roberts, the Politico national editor whose resignation was announced last week, will be staying in the business.
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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 — But that doesn't mean the model will look exactly like Politico, according to Dan Primack. — Politico* co-founder Jim VandeHei …
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Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
A volunteer project by a group of libraries, End of Term Presidential Harvest 2016, is saving valuable pages on federal government sites at risk of vanishing — By noon on Thursday, Davis Erin Anderson had copied the addresses of a few dozen websites and online PDFs that listed signs of climate change by state and region.
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Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
University of Kentucky suit is one of several disputes between universities and student newspapers over transparency about sexual assault cases on campuses — The confidential informant had an explosive tip for the University of Kentucky's campus newspaper: An associate professor of entomology …
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