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Sources: Facebook planning on premiering about 24 TV-like shows in mid-June, has greenlit virtual-reality dating show from Condé Nast Entertainment — Facebook has kicked its push for TV-like shows into high gear and is aiming to premiere its slate of programming in mid-June …
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Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC, CBS, and NBC join CNN in declining Trump campaign ad that includes a “Fake News” title over faces of well-known anchors — “CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC have now all chosen to block our ad,” Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the President, said.
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
French paper Libération launched fact-checking service on Wednesday, ahead of Sunday's elections, with readers' queries answered by fact-checking team — In a last-ditch attempt to steer voters away from misinformation ahead of Sunday's presidential election, French newspaper Libération …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Congressional Periodical Press Gallery denies Sputnik a permanent press pass and grants a pass to Laura Ingraham's site, LifeZette — The Congressional Periodical Press Gallery committee has denied Sputnik, a Russian state-owned news website, a permanent congressional press pass.
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Spotify, Deezer, Rocket Internet, others sign letter to European Commission urging antitrust action against Apple and Google — Brussels urged to take action against those abusing mobile and app store dominance — Read next … Spotify and a host of European internet businesses have called …
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Recode:
Sources: Amazon and Apple close to an agreement to launch Amazon video app on Apple TV; Amazon employees expect the app in Q3 — Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook bury the hatchet. — Amazon and Apple may have reached a truce. — The tech giants, who are increasingly competing for customers' time …
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BuzzFeed:
Inside founders' fights for hugely popular liberal sites and Facebook pages like Occupy Democrats, USUncut, and Addicting Info, as income rose fueled by Trump — The US election — and its surprise victory for Donald Trump have helped propel liberal hyperpartisan Facebook pages and websites to new traffic and revenue heights.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts scannable Spotify Codes in mobile app to let users easily share music — Spotify has taken a tip from Snapchat with its new feature for sharing music via scannable images. The new Spotify Codes feature creates a unique barcode and album cover image for every song, artist and playlist.
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Memo: Warner Music renews YouTube pact, but CEO Steve Cooper calls deal “short-term” and criticizes safe harbor copyright law — Here's the full memo from Warner Music CEO Steve Cooper — Warner Music Group has a signed a new deal with YouTube. It's not happy about it.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitch says it wants to stream original programming that is interactive, where users can steer the storyline — “Will it happen? There's a high probability.” — Amazon paid $1 billion for Twitch almost three years ago because it had a big audience of people who love to watch — and talk about — other people playing video games.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook debuts a Twitter-like “Latest Conversations” feature that shows public posts about buzzing topics — Facebook is rolling out a new feature called “Latest Conversations” in its search results that will show the most recent public posts about timely topics that a lot of people across its network are discussing.
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Politico:
Ryan Grim, the Washington bureau chief of HuffPost, is leaving to take the same role at The Intercept — Ryan Grim, the Washington bureau chief of HuffPost, is leaving the site to become Washington bureau chief of The Intercept. — Grim, one of the original HuffPost staffers in Washington …
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