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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook requests input on hard questions about censorship, such as removing false news, and plans to begin explaining how it's addressing each question — How should Facebook decide what's allowed on its social network, and how to balance safety and truth with diverse opinions and cultural norms?
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Facebook, Variety, Motherboard and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
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Monika Bickert / Facebook:
Facebook details its process to fight terrorism: AI including image matching, increased human intervention to flag posts and remove accounts, partnerships, more — By Monika Bickert, Director of Global Policy Management, and Brian Fishman, Counterterrorism Policy Manager
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The Guardian, BBC, New York Times, @wexler and Techdirt, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Filings: Spotify reaches 140M MAUs as 2016 revenue grew over 50% YoY to $3.3B, with a net loss of $601M; firm agrees to pay big labels $2B+ over next two years — The streaming service posted revenue of $3.3 billion last year; it has promised big checks in exchange for better rates.
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TechCrunch, RAIN News, The Wrap, United States, Business Insider, Forbes, MacRumors, Music Business Worldwide, Variety, The Verge, @pkafka, @gerberkawasaki, hypebot and @mathewi, more at Techmeme »
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Fox News has dropped the marketing slogan “Fair & Balanced”, invented by Roger Ailes in 1996, to be replaced by “Most Watched. Most Trusted.” — As Fox News moves further into the post-Roger Ailes era, the network is shedding one of its most iconic elements.
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New York Times, TVWeek.com, Vanity Fair, Mashable, The Guardian, Newser, Talking New Media, Business Insider, Fortune, Politicus USA, TVNewser, Mediaite, The Week and @jbflint
Gregory Wallace / CNN:
CNN files lawsuit against FBI seeking Comey's memos about his talks with Trump, accusing the agency of violating the federal FOI Act — Washington (CNN)In federal court Thursday, CNN filed a lawsuit seeking to force the FBI to turn over former director James Comey's memos documenting his conversations with President Donald Trump.
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The Wrap, Variety, @brianstelter and @brianstelter
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
One month after the death of Javier Valdez Cárdenas, a number of publications and organizations have created a new campaign to push for journalist protection — “It is a problem that is affecting fundamental human rights of all Mexicans — the right to freedom of expression, the rights to access information."
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Nieman Storyboard, The Intercept and Nieman Reports
Kristine Lu / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 80%+ of US adults get news on their phones, up from half that four years ago, with 25% of growth over past year coming from 65-year-old adults — Mobile devices have rapidly become one of the most common ways for Americans to get news, and the sharpest growth in the past year …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Social video app Musical.ly launches a series of short original shows, after signing deals with Hearst, NBCUniversal, and Viacom — Musical.ly, the lip-syncing social video app popular among teen girls, is stirring professionally produced content into its mix of user-generated content.
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Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Wire, Tubefilter and The Verge
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon, CBS, Disney, HBO, NBCU, Netflix, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox form anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment — Members of anti-piracy coalition include Disney, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, NBCU, CBS, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox
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Naked Security and Forbes
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bloomberg Businessweek unveils redesign and launches paywall, offering readers four free articles a month, with digital access costing $50-$60/year — Bloomberg Businessweek is introducing a two-tiered membership model starting today, joining other publishers that are trying …
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Nieman Lab, Financial Times and Businessweek
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
US Office of Government Ethics calls retroactive, unsigned ethics waiver that applies to Steve Bannon “problematic”, in reply to Democratic senators — The Office of Government Ethics said in a letter to Democratic senators this week that the Trump administration's blanket ethics …
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United States Office …, @maggiejordanacn, @normeisen, The Week, Bloomberg, Mother Jones and @bystevereilly
Emma Löfgren / The Local:
An investigation by a Swedish crime podcast, Spår, led to the release of a man wrongfully imprisoned for murder — Kaj Linna, who was convicted in northern Sweden over murder charges he always denied, has been fully acquitted in a retrial. After 13 years behind bars, he is now a free man.
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@nbaines2, @ekjlofgren and @thelocalsweden
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Vocativ lays off editorial staff and says in a statement it will focus exclusively on video distributed via social media and other platforms — “RIP fake deep web data reporting.” — That was one reaction Wednesday morning after Vocativ announced it was cutting its entire newsroom focused …
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@zenalbatross, @parkermolloy, @clarajeffery, @s_m_i, Fast Company and @poynter
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