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11:00 AM ET, April 14, 2017

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Elizabeth Weise / USA Today:
Facebook rolling out tech changes using patterns to find fake accounts that can spread misinformation, malware, and falsely boost page rankings  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is ramping up efforts to kill off sham accounts used to spread fake news, pass along malware and falsely boost page rankings …
Tamara Abraham / The Business of Fashion:
Vogue Arabia appoints Manuel Arnaut as editor in chief, succeeding Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz, who was fired on Thursday after just two issues  —  Arnaut is the second man in a week to have been appointed to the helm of an edition of Vogue. … DUBAI, United Arab Emirates …
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Tamara Abraham / The Business of Fashion:
Saudi princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz has been fired from her role as EIC of Vogue Arabia; it is understood that a new editor has already been appointed
Bloomberg:
Sources: Viacom, AMC, and Discovery in talks with four to six pay-TV providers for sports-free streaming TV; source says service could cost less than $20/month  —  Entertainment-only packages could cost less than $20 a month  —  At least four distributors weigh online bundles without sports
Ted Johnson / Variety:
FCC spectrum auction ends, with 175 TV stations getting payouts of up to $304M each; 957 stations will get new channel assignments  —  The FCC has closed a first-of-its-kind auction of broadcast airwaves that will see a shakeup in channel lineups in many markets, with stations reaping a total …
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
CIA Director Mike Pompeo calls WikiLeaks a “hostile intelligence service” aided by Russia and labels founder Julian Assange a fraud  —  The self-described transparency organization WikiLeaks is a “non-state, hostile intelligence service” that is often “abetted by state actors like Russia …
David Bond / Financial Times:
Glossy fashion magazines are seeing a shift in readers and advertisers to social media platforms and online retailers as luxury ad spending in magazines falls  —  Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Vanity Fair readers and advertisers switch to online rivals  —  Read next
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Instagram says Stories has 200M daily active users, passing 161M DAUs Snapchat reported in S1; update today brings selfie stickers, pinning stickers to videos  —  Instagram is seeing continued growth in the number of people using its Snapchat Stories-like feature.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In an interview, Nick Denton says his next project will be building internet forums, with a focus on bridging the gap between public and private conversations  —  After taking about a month off in the wake of his settlement with the plaintiffs represented by Peter Thiel's lawyer …
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Source: Tribune Media scraps plans for new national news site Tribune.com ahead of April 25 rollout and lays off more than 18 employees  —  The company also scrapped plans to relaunch Television Without Pity  —  On April 25, Tribune Media planned to launch a new national news site …
Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
Condé Nast is hiring a Snapchat team as GQ, Wired, and Self magazine begin publishing weekly editions to Discover this month  —  Wired, GQ and Self get channels  —  Condé Nast is hoping to find millennials on Snapchat.  After inking a deal with Snapchat to create stories …
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Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance:   Document shows Condé Nast's Vanity Fair plans a paywall in the next two to six months, possibly similar to The New Yorker's
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Dana Perino, who has been filling in on multiple shows, is emerging as a go-to host for Fox News during a tumultuous period at the network  —  Amid the turmoil of the Fox News lineup this year, one host has become a go-to in multiple roles for the network: Dana Perino.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Bill O'Reilly has quietly cut his schedule to four days a week; a spin-off with rotating hosts called “Friday Factor” is planned but not announced, source says
 
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Ingrid Cobben / Nieman Lab:
French startup Brut, which creates video distributed on Facebook and other platforms, partners with public broadcaster France Télévisions and eyes US expansion
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
A new survey from BuzzFeed News and Ipsos Public Affairs found that 54% of American adults trust news they see on Facebook “only a little” or “not at all”
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