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Marina Fang / The Huffington Post:
Mike Flynn, Trump's pick for national security adviser, has deleted a tweet that linked to a fake news story about Hillary Clinton — Gen. Mike Flynn quietly deleted a tweet that promoted a baseless story about Hillary Clinton's “sex crimes.” — Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Michael Flynn Jr., son of Trump's national security advisor General Michael Flynn, slammed the Washington Post and questioned if it should continue to operate — Michael Flynn Jr., the son of incoming Donald Trump national security advisor Gen. Michael Flynn, attacked The Washington Post Wednesday …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Trump has gone 36 days without holding a press conference since becoming President-Elect, twelve times longer than Bush and Obama — The president-elect postpones this week's press conference, his first planned since July, while holding four “Thank You” rallies — and meeting Kanye.
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
In radio interview, Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus says there are “different ways” to do WH daily briefing, seemingly suggesting it could be abolished
In radio interview, Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus says there are “different ways” to do WH daily briefing, seemingly suggesting it could be abolished
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Memo: Politico ends Julia Ioffe's contract after she sends vulgar tweet about Trump, reiterates that its journalists should not share opinion on any platform — Politico has terminated its contract with magazine writer Julia Ioffe after she sent a tweet that referenced a possible incestuous …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
150 prominent filmmakers sign an open letter to major camera makers, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, and others, asking for default storage encryption — In the summer of 2013, when documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras was shooting a still-secret NSA leaker named Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, she took security seriously.
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Twitter's rule against inciting harassment means it could ban President-Elect Trump, but free speech advocates argue his tweets have value — If Twitter wanted to, it would be well within its rights to suspend Donald J. Trump's account. — After the president-elect used Twitter last week …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Facebook is in talks with TV shows and video producers about licensing content including original, licensed, scripted, unscripted, and sports programming — The company says it wants to “kickstart” its video efforts. — Facebook, which has long relied on other people to provide it with content …
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Claire Reilly / CNET:
Australian federal court orders ISPs to block torrenting sites, including The Pirate Bay, within 15 business days under new site-blocking law — Goodbye Pirate Bay, farewell TorrentHound — Australia's ISPs have been ordered to block a raft of torrenting sites under new site-blocking laws.
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Sports-focused streaming service FuboTV signs deals with Fox Networks Group, NBCUniversal, NBA TV, the Weather Channel, and A&E Networks — Virtual pay-TV startup signs Fox, NBC, A+E, among others — Coming into the TV marketplace as a new digital entrant and getting the rights …
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Joel Stein / Bloomberg:
Imzy, founded by two former Reddit employees, launched in October to be a gentler version of Reddit; site has 50K members and $11M in seed funding — Imzy, started by two former Reddit employees, wants to be a kinder, gentler version of the controversial discussion site. — by — Subscribe Reprints
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Commenting platform Disqus lays off 20% of its workforce, or 11 people, as it shifts business models to focus on data services for publishers and advertisers — Some downsizing and refocusing is underway at Disqus, the startup incubated at Y-Combinator that became an early mover in the business …
Jane Martinson / The Guardian:
In letter to the Culture Secretary, former UK PM Gordon Brown urges UK government to delay Fox-Sky deal until after second part of the Leveson inquiry — Former PM says planned second part of inquiry is needed to look at evidence of wrongdoing beyond phone hacking
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Amazon expands Prime Video to 200+ countries excluding China, no additional cost for Prime members, $5.99/month in countries with no Prime subscription option — A month after it dropped major hints, Amazon has made its Prime Video service available in more than 200 countries worldwide bringing …
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Variety, ZDNet, VideoNuze Analysis, BGR, Mashable, VentureBeat, @refsrc, Amazon.com, Fortune, @shalini, @jonrussell, @amasna and Variety
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