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Nick Hopkins / The Guardian:
100+ internal training manuals and other docs show guidelines for Facebook content moderators on topics like violence, hate speech, terrorism, porn, self-harm — Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant's ethics
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Nitasha Tiku / Wired:
How Facebook conducted research, commissioned by an advertiser, on minors' emotional states, which was then shared in a presentation to potential advertisers — Data mining is such a prosaic part of our online lives that it's hard to sustain consumer interest in it, much less outrage.
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Politico:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends a news conference with the Saudi foreign minister in Riyadh, with only foreign media invited — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held a news conference with the Saudi foreign minister in Riyadh on Sunday, but he left the American media behind.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The reemergence of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory underscores the persistence of the false news ecosystem — On July 10, at 4:19 a.m., gunfire was detected in the District's Bloomingdale neighborhood. Not five minutes later, police found Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer …
Foster Kamer / Mashable:
Criticism of The Skimm's tone is mean-spirited, petty, elitist, and distracts from more important things, like actual villainy — So! Right now on the parts of the internet mostly occupied by People Who Work In the Business of Content (or as known by their Hebrew name: Media Schmucks) …
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Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
The Skimm's patronizing tone assumes that female readers aren't interested in serious, non-snarky news coverage
The Skimm's patronizing tone assumes that female readers aren't interested in serious, non-snarky news coverage
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Hollywood Reporter:
Ex-Today host Billy Bush breaks his silence on the Access Hollywood tape and Trump, discusses his firing from NBC, and his comeback plan for television — Seven months after the infamous “grab them by the pussy” recording got Bush fired (and nearly toppled Trump's White House run) …
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How Philadelphia Media Network is combining three legacy newsrooms, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com, into one digital team — PHILADELPHIA — He wrote and rewrote the memo. — Stan Wischnowski, executive editor of the Philadelphia Media Network, knew he had to get the tone right.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Without an FCC objection, right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group will gain a broadcast TV audience of 7 of every 10 Americans after Tribune Media acquisition — When French voters resoundingly elected a centrist president rather than a right-leaning antiglobalist this month, one reason may have been the nation's news media.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Sources: Facebook's TV-like shows, set for mid-June launch, have been delayed at least until late July — One challenge is figuring out where these shows will live outside of Facebook's video tab. — Facebook's big push into original video is taking longer than expected.
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Profile of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House's deputy press secretary who may potentially replace Sean Spicer — WASHINGTON — Sarah Huckabee Sanders does not want you to read this story. — When Yahoo News asked the White House's principal deputy press secretary if she was willing …
Glenn H. Burkins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Risk aversion plus lack of training and money and better opportunities elsewhere may help explain dearth of black digital publishers — The local-news funding surge has bypassed ethnic media — It's difficult to say just when the notion first struck me to quit the relative security …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Amazon Charts, Amazon's new book rankings, lists books by most sold and most read per week, taking into account Kindle reading and Audible listening stats — Amazon has long relied on customers providing feedback and providing other ranking data as part of the process of encouraging more sales …
Jon Lee Anderson / New Yorker:
Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, a prolific reporter on the narco underworld, gunned down in the capital of his home-state of Sinaloa — In his last public remarks, made on a live television show, “El Almohadazo,” on Monday morning, the Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas spoke …
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