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Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:
Advice for France: use caution in reporting on uncurated dumps of hacked emails, which can fuel viral misinformation, violate privacy, and confuse the public — A brief guide to the information wars. — Ooh, la la. So, it happened to you too. The frontrunning presidential candidate got hacked …
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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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Business Insider:
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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Recode:
Interview with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on his approach to media ownership rules, mergers, net neutrality, and investment in broadband infrastructure — Net neutrality, antitrust, infrastructure, mergers — it's all here. — On this special bonus episode of Recode Decode …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Profile of InfoWars' Alex Jones, who is now an insider after a career spent crusading against the establishment and the elite — AUSTIN — It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn't stop getting punched in the face. — Out on the cracked asphalt of Austin Public Access …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New report details every step in the Electionland initiative, a 1000+ person effort led by ProPublica, including a post mortem — Let's relive Tuesday, November 8, 2016 again. — Not the presidential election — the Electionland project, spearheaded by ProPublica, and an monumental effort …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
A close read of Trump's recent interviews reveal that he instinctively understands the reporter's psychology and thinks like a journalist — President Trump broke a lot of news in his whirlwind of 100-day interviews. But a close read of the interviews reveal a skill that helped him win the presidency …
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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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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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Financial Times:
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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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.
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