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Aja Romano / Vox:
Twitter reinstates and re-verifies white nationalist Richard Spencer 's personal account, says his accounts were banned for violating multiple accounts rule — Twitter banned Richard Spencer because he had too many accounts — not because those accounts promoted racism.
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BuzzFeed, Media Matters for America, @richardbspencer, @kfile, @lisadep, @cwarzel and Mashable
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Experts: expansion of prosecutions using Espionage Act, started under Obama, could be a larger threat to media during Trump's presidency than libel law changes — Worry about the Espionage Act, not libel laws. — Anyone who doubts that Donald Trump could use the levers of the presidency …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @dankennedy_nu, @pierre, @mlcalderone, @arishapiro, @kendallmire, @penamerican and @yehudahmirsky
Thomas E. Patterson / Shorenstein Center:
Harvard report finds news coverage of both Clinton and Trump during 2016 election was negative in tone and light on policy — A new report from Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage during the 2016 general election …
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Business Insider and Media Nation
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The Atlantic adds former New Republic editor Franklin Foer as a writer, shortly after making several other hires for its politics and policy team — Former New Republic editor Franklin Foer is the latest in a string of splashy post-election hires at the magazine.
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@franklinfoer
Washington Post:
An anatomy of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, as it mutated from an online rumor to a hashtag on social media to actual gunfire in Washington, DC — What was finally real was Edgar Welch, driving from North Carolina to Washington to rescue sexually abused children he believed were hidden …
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The Guardian, Observer and grubstreet
Michael Rosenwald / Columbia Journalism Review:
Online news may never reach print's revenue and readership, meaning publishers must rethink digital vs. paper assumptions, including reader willingness to pay — Roger Fidler is a forefather of digital journalism. In the early 1980s, he wrote and illustrated an essay on the future of news.
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@structstories, @jbenton and @mathewi
Liz Stinson / Wired:
The Outline, with its opaque user interface and maze-like browsing experience, seems as though it was designed to be used like Tinder or a slot machine — In an introductory post to his colorful new project, The Outline, Joshua Topolsky writes that the site is “a new kind of publication for a new kind of human.”
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@adrjeffries
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
Kids are now emulating the child YouTubers they've grown up watching, by posting videos of themselves and performing even when they're not being recorded — always land their bottles perfectly upright. Max Cole has spent hours studying their routine, and now, his own viewers are waiting: Empty half the blue juice.
Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
Online media outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network, called Trump TV by some, plans to expand to 24-hour operation — Can Trump grant the online channel dedicated to his campaign into the White House without proper credentials? — The conservative online media outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network …
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The Huffington Post
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Molotov, a free app that allows users to watch 70 free channels in France and bookmark shows in the cloud for alerts and later viewing, raises $23M — Paris-based startup Molotov has raised $23 million and launched a service that is poised to revolutionize the way we watch live TV, doing what Apple has tried but thus far failed to do.
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TechCrunch
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
LA entertainment attorney says Trump's EP title on Celebrity Apprentice is likely credit for past work, other presidents have derived income from media products — I know next to nothing about how the entertainment world works. Like many Americans, I assume, the blur of names that I ignore …
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@realdonaldtrump, @realdonaldtrump, CNET, @cnn, The Wrap, Business Insider, Mediaite, TIME, Fortune, Variety, The Week, Fox News Insider, TVNewser, Newser, New Urban Legends, TVWeek.com, The Daily Caller, PAPERMAG, Gothamist, AOL and Mother Jones
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
By refusing to admit that Trump is ever right, fact-checkers, whose analyses are frequently dubious, have rendered themselves untrustworthy — Ridding ourselves of fake news requires having media outlets that are actually worth listening to... Despite having decisively won the presidential election …
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iMediaEthics, naked capitalism, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast and The Week
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