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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
RT is banned from posting articles, photos, and videos to Facebook until after Trump's inauguration, after allegedly running a pirated stream of Obama's presser — In a surprise move, RT (formerly known as Russia Today) has been banned from posting articles, photos, and videos to Facebook.
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Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Cameron Harris, creator of a fake news site, is fired as a Maryland GOP legislative aide after NYT interview reveals his role in bogus anti-Clinton news — A Republican legislative aide in Maryland who was behind a fake news site that accused Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of election-rigging was fired Wednesday.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
How recent college graduate Cameron Harris launched a fake news operation that published a viral story about fraudulent Clinton ballots found in Ohio
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump gets facts wrong in tweet stating NBC's Today show is doing “badly”: it's the highest-rated morning show among 25- to 54-year-olds — No, Donald Trump, NBC's “Today” show is not doing “badly.” — It is actually America's highest-rated morning show among 25- to 54-year-olds …
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Pew Research Center:
Fox News was main source of campaign news for 40% of Trump voters, 3% of Clinton's; CNN was most common source for 18% of Clinton voters, 8% of Trump's — Fox News was the main source for 40% of Trump voters — In the coming days, Americans will follow a single event across a variety of media channels …
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Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
The Players' Tribune, co-founded by Derek Jeter in 2014, raises $40M in new round led by IVP, bringing total funding to $58M — Derek Jeter just hit another home run—in securing startup financing, that is. — The former New York Yankees shortstop co-founded The Players' Tribune …
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Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
LA Weekly is up for sale, Voice Media Group announces, as part of a realignment that began when a new ownership group took over four years ago — The owners of the LA Weekly announced today that the venerable Los Angeles alt weekly is the chain's next paper to be offered for sale.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Carlos Slim to launch TV channel called Nuestra Visión, “Our Vision” in English, for Mexican audience in US, with news, movies, and sports programming — Carlos Slim in 82 Seconds — Telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim has announced his intention to launch a channel tailored …
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix lures Seinfeld from Crackle for Comedians in Cars, two specials, and more after recently signing deals with Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, and Aziz Ansari — The comedian has signed a production deal that also includes a development component as the entire library of ‘Comedians in Cars’ also will move to the streaming giant.
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
IDG, owner of PCWorld and IDC, to be acquired by Chinese investor group Oceanwide, headed by IDG Greater China chairman Hugo Shong — International Data Group, the owner of PCWorld magazine and market researcher IDC, on Thursday said it was being acquired by China Oceanwide Holdings Group and IDG Capital …
EU Press Room:
European Commission says Amazon's subsidiary Audible and Apple have agreed to end all exclusivity obligations in supply and distribution of audiobooks — The European Commission welcomes an agreement to end all exclusivity obligations concerning audiobook supply and distribution between Amazon's subsidiary Audible and Apple.
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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Netflix reports $2.35B in Q4 revenue, up from $1.67B in Q4 2015, as it adds 1.93M new US subs vs 1.3M expected, 5.12M global subs vs 3.8M expected; stock up 8%+ — Holy cow, we have quite the beat for Netflix. — Netflix added nearly 2 million new subscribers domestically …
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SPJ News:
SPJ, 60 other journalism groups, ask Trump administration for meeting on government access — INDIANAPOLIS — The Society of Professional Journalists and 60 other journalism organizations have requested a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence to discuss access to government.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Obama emphasizes the importance of a free and adversarial press corps in his final press conference
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Snap to enable ad targeting using 3rd-party data from offline purchases, after signing deal with Oracle Data Cloud, following lead of Google, Facebook, Twitter — Mobile app company follows lead of Google, Facebook and Twitter by working with Oracle Data Cloud
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