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3:10 AM ET, December 14, 2016

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New York Times:
Amplified by the US media, Russia executed an effective cyber offensive against the DNC, aided by a sluggish FBI response  —  WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along …
Emily Steel / New York Times:
21st Century Fox faces new lawsuit that claims Roger Ailes sexually harassed reporter Lidia Curanaj in 2011  —  Nearly five months after Roger Ailes was ousted from his position as chairman of Fox News Channel, the sexual harassment accusations against him continue.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Elizabeth Ailes, wife of Fox News' Roger Ailes, sells her two newspapers, excluding buildings, in upstate New York to Editor-in-Chief Douglas Cunningham  —  Elizabeth Ailes, wife of former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, announced on Tuesday that she's selling two newspapers in Putnam County, New York.
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood studios win preliminary injunction against VidAngel, the streaming service that lets users filter language, sex, and nudity from movies  —  A screenshot from the website for VidAngel.  (VidAngel)  —  A U.S. district judge has sided with Hollywood studios in their legal battle to block VidAngel …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Memo from publisher Fred Ryan: Washington Post is profitable, and traffic increased nearly 50% with digital subscription revenue more than doubling in past year  —  The Washington Post is a profitable and growing enterprise, the newspaper's publisher announced in a memo to staffers Tuesday evening.
Discussion: @loriamontgomery
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / WWD:
Amid increased concerns about fake news, The New Yorker adds a “not the news” tagline and banner to The Borowitz Report  —  The New Yorker has taken steps to clarify that The Borowitz Report is not actually true.  —  What it looks like when The Borowitz Report is shared on social media.
Felix Salmon / Nieman Lab:
In 2017, headlines will matter more than ever and journalists will need to wrest control of headline writing from social-optimization teams  —  2017 will be the year that news organizations start approaching headlines with the importance they deserve.  —  A few years ago …
Dan Frommer / Recode:
RBC survey: 18% of Instagram users say they watch Stories daily; 53% say they watch them at least monthly  —  Almost 20 percent of Instagram users say they watch ‘Stories’ every day.  —  How is Instagram's Snapchat Stories clone doing?  —  Some 18 percent of U.S. Instagram users surveyed …
Eve Peyser / Gizmodo:
Google refuses to change search results for ‘Did the Holocaust happen?’, despite previously manipulating results to favor its own products  —  If you Google “did the Holocaust happen” the first result is a link from Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi and white supremacist forum that's widely regarded …
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Infowars takes down some content that pushed Pizzagate conspiracy theory after one video was cited in a criminal complaint stemming from Washington DC shooting  —  Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is scrubbing online content pushing the false and dangerous conspiracy theory …
 
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Virtual reality game-maker Survios raises Series C round led by film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Judge clears Backpage.com CEO and co-founders of pimping charges, says the listing site is not liable for user-generated content
Scott Dadich / Wired:
Wired will publish its first ever fiction-only issue in January, featuring sci-fi stories by different authors
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Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
How the Obama administration laid the groundwork for Trump's coming crackdown on the press, starting with killing the ‘media shield’ bill
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Jim VandeHei's new site, Axios, will have a hub in its Washington D.C. HQ called Newsdesk; the site is currently recruiting reporters in D.C. and Silicon Valley
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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
The second developer beta of iOS 18.2 shows a “daily limit” for free access to “advanced” ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses by conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, to gather employee feedback on products on the market

Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrested Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind hacks in June and July of up to 165 Snowflake customers including AT&T
 
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