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12:35 PM ET, April 6, 2017

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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Facebook will roll out a new guide tomorrow at the top of its News Feed to help users spot “false news” in 14 countries, including US, UK, and Germany  —  A new guide offering “Tips for spotting false news” will soon appear at the top of your News Feed.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify is considering directly listing its shares on a public exchange in September, instead of a traditional IPO  —  Music-streaming service considers a direct listing, bypassing the typical public-offering script  —  Music-streaming service Spotify AB is readying an initial public offering that is expected by year-end.
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
How children's book publishers, which aren't used to weighing issues of partisan division and bias, are navigating the tricky landscape of writing about Trump  —  On Nov. 10, Beth Sutinis sat at her desk in Brooklyn with a big task looming.  As the executive editor for the children's division …
Max Willens / Digiday:
The Strategist, New York magazine's e-commerce brand, has seen affiliate revenue from product sales grow 450% over the past year, but won't say to how much  —  New York magazine has been giving its print subscribers shopping recommendations for five decades.
Discussion: Adweek and @digiday
The Nation:
The Nation launches a confidential tips resource, adopting encrypted tools like WhatsApp, Signal, and PGP for whistleblowers  —  If you see something, say something... more securely.  —  By ,  —  Long a home for adversarial accountability journalism in our 150-plus-years of publication …
Discussion: Talking New Media
Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube's $35/mo TV streaming service debuts in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Bay area, with 4 major networks, 40+ cable channels  —  Young people in the United States have already made the switch from traditional television to streaming services.
Annie Karni / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh dined with Trump at the WH on March 23; source says Fox's Jeanine Pirro also had dinner at the WH a week before Trump endorsed her show on Twitter  —  President Donald Trump, who often spends weeknights alone cooped up in the White House, has recently wined and dined some of the biggest names in right-wing media.
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
From January 2001 to September 2016, US newspaper publishers lost over half their employment, from 412K to 174K jobs  —  The information industry consists of businesses that publish information through traditional forms of media such as newspapers, periodicals, and books, as well as electronically over the Internet.
Discussion: Mashable
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
O'Reilly's “hotline defense” is ludicrous: a Fox News culture of fear would prevent a sexually harassed woman from calling an internal hotline  —  Whatever happens to Bill O'Reilly's career, one aspect of this unrelenting story line at Fox News deserves to be put to rest forever.
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How ProPublica responded to the White House press secretary's insult by defending its journalism and promoting its work in tweets, boosting followers 10%  —  Journalists often agonize over how to tweet, and rightly so.  For many of us, Twitter is the most personal point of contact with audiences.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Verizon is primed to become ad-tracking giant and take full advantage of an impotent FCC, using consumer data without permission, as it's done with supercookies  —  Zombie adtech is coming to kill Google  —  Two seemingly unrelated things happened Monday that actually point directly at the future of the internet:
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
As the number of advertisers who have dropped The O'Reilly Factor reaches more than 40, Bill O'Reilly and Fox News remain quiet  —  Brown: Time for Fox to clean shop  —  Bill O'Reilly's future at Fox News is the number one topic among Manhattan media executives, entertainment agents and journalists.
 
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Adblock Plus parent company Eyeo says it has acquired Sweden-based micropayment service Flattr
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg announces it will merge Bloomberg Government with Bloomberg BNA, which focuses on legal, tax, and compliance topics
Discussion: Bloomberg L.P.
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Profile of MicroChip, who claims he's a software developer in Utah leading a pro-Trump bot-infested Twitter network that sways trending topics
Mará Rose Williams / Kansas City Star:
How student reporters at a Kansas high school dug into the background of a new principal and found questionable credentials, causing her to resign