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Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
New audio and video technologies that can easily recreate any person's likeness will make fake stories harder to detect — What we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. — Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected …
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Ethan Zuckerman / Deutsche Welle:
News media landscape is changing with the spread of fake news, propaganda, and “disinformatzya,” and these variants must be treated with different techniques — Fake news, propaganda and “disinformatzya” are changing the media landscape - in the US, Russia and Turkey and across the world.
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
New study finds the use of warnings on fake stories alongside real news can mitigate the spread of misinformation — Research conducted by social psychologists at Cambridge University in the UK, and Yale and George Mason in the US, offers a potential strategy for mitigating the spread …
The Guardian:
George Orwell experts on how the Trump era shares aspects of the dystopian world of 1984 — Since Kellyanne Conway spoke of ‘alternative facts’, Nineteen Eighty-Four has hit the No 1 spot in Amazon's book sales chart. So, is the age of Newspeak here? … Jean Seaton: The seeds were sown during the George W Bush era
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Lauren Katz / Vox:
Q&A with Lauren Naturale, the person behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary's sassy Twitter account — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway coined a new term this weekend: “alternative facts.” And the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a 186-year-old authority on English language use, had to weigh in.
Mark Harris / Vulture:
Trump's long tenure in the entertainment industry has given him a warped view of journalists as publicists who dole out uncritical media praise — Donald Trump's presidency has opened, and the reviews are raves! I know this because of a press release the White House issued on Wednesday morning.
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
ISPs, studios, and record labels end the four-year-old copyright alert system that sent warnings to users over P2P downloads of pirated content — Major internet providers are ending a four-year-old system in which consumers received “copyright alerts” when they viewed peer-to-peer pirated content.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The flood of leaks now coming out of the White House suggest that Trump's aides have resorted to influencing him through a public airing of grievances — All White Houses leak. Sometimes the leaks are big, sometimes small. But there are always people willing to talk to reporters about the …
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New York Times
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which likely means a March IPO — The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late next week.
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VentureBeat, The Drum, @karaswisher, Mashable, Bloomberg, Business Insider, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Belo's Dallas Morning News is cutting 25 newsroom jobs and outsourcing print production to Gatehouse Media — The Dallas Morning News announced late Thursday that it would outsource the design of its print newspaper and cut 25 newsroom jobs. Newspaper chain Gatehouse Media …
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Dallas Morning News, @scmitchp, @charlesapple, @wneff and @carolineduke
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Melania Trump wins the first round in a libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger who claimed she worked as a “high-end escort” — First Lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Prosecutors drop charges against Vocativ's Evan Engel, arrested at inauguration protests and represented by top Washington lawyer; cases pending for 5 others — WASHINGTON — Prosecutors announced on Friday that they had dropped a criminal case against a journalist arrested amid protests …
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@jackgillum, Vocativ, @zoetillman, @chrisgeidner, Raw Story and US News
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