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2:35 PM ET, March 21, 2017

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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Benny Johnson and two others suspended from Independent Journal Review, pending investigation into editorial standards  —  It was supposed to be Independent Journal Review's week to shine.  —  The upstart, millennial-focused news website, which has emerged as a favorite …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Fox News analyst Napolitano suspended indefinitely after his unverified claims that British spies wiretapped Trump at behest of Obama  —  Judge Andrew Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, is being kept off the air indefinitely.  (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Twitter nixed 636k+ accounts between mid-2015 and end of 2016 in its effort to tackle extremism  —  Twitter has revealed it suspended a total of 376,890 accounts between July 1 through December 31 last year for violations related to promotion of terrorism.  It says the majority of the suspensions …
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Rishika Sadam / Reuters:
Twitter has suspended 636K+ accounts since mid-2015 to tackle extremism, with 377K in the second half of 2016  —  Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Tuesday it had suspended more than half a million accounts since the middle of 2015 as the company steps up efforts to tackle “violent extremism” on its microblogging platform.
American Press Institute:
Study by Media Insight Project: who shares an article on social media influences the reader more than who produces it  —  This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google updates ad policies giving more control over ad placement after UK backlash, creates new brand safety tools, and expands hate speech definitions  —  After U.K. criticism, company creates new brand safety tools  —  Google also adds refugees to class protected from hate speech
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dutch telecom company Altice buys France-based video ad tech startup Teads for $307M  —  “Convergence of telecoms content, and advertising is at the core of our business," says Altice CEO Michel Combes.  —  European cable and telecom giant Altice, which previously acquired Cablevision Systems …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Adobe launches Advertising Cloud to help its customers manage and buy its digital and TV ads; launch follows company's acquisition of TubeMogul in December  —  Adobe has launched a platform called Advertiser Cloud that will allow its customers to manage and buy its digital and TV ads, the company announced Tuesday.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Profile: former Obama WH staffers' Crooked Media, with four podcasts aiming to counter Trump, including “Pod Save America,” which boasts 1.4M downloads/episode  —  AUSTIN, Tex. — The cultural-political revolution of the Nixon era was neither televised nor sponsored.
 
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Kevin Rawlinson / The Guardian:
BBC is failing in its duty to be impartial about Brexit, say 76 conservative parliamentarians in a letter to senior BBC executives
Raphael Satter / Associated Press:
The AP and RCFP are appealing a recently rejected lawsuit demanding more details about when an FBI agent impersonated a journalist
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Association of Independents in Radio study: how 16 producers embedded with 15 public media orgs covered underserved communities via Localore's Finding America
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WWD:
Source: American Media Inc. to lay off about 100 people from US Weekly early next week after its acquisition of the publication
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
The Blaze confirms that Tomi Lahren's show will be off air for a week, after Lahren called anti-abortion conservatives hypocrites
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico rolls out a second Playbook, an afternoon newsletter called Playbook Power Briefing, as it adapts to a speedier DC news cycle
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Robert B. Silvers, the editor and founder of The New York Review of Books, has died at 87
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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