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Internal documents show how Facebook polices speech, at times unfairly punishing and censoring black users or those in disputed territories like Palestine — In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media's Motherboard retracts two articles on Trump's animatronic presence at Disney Parks' Hall of Presidents, citing factual errors, questions on sourcing — NY Digital Editor @xpangler — Vice Media's Motherboard tech site has retracted two articles — supposedly revealing discord …
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Brian Karem / Playboy:
Playboy journalist Brian Karem recounts his confrontation with Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during White House press briefing — Monday night, the White House Press Office sent out its daily guidance telling us of significant events the next day.
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Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders urges everyone to watch an anti-CNN video by James O'Keefe, adding “whether it's accurate or not, I don't know”
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Adi Joseph / USA Today:
Q&A with Yahoo NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski, who is joining ESPN, on his new role, layoffs at the network, and more — Adrian Wojnarowski has 1.8 million followers on Twitter, yet the hard-core NBA fans who swarm to his breaking news reports may not know what he looks like.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The NYT relaunches its cooking site and app, charging $5 per month, with a limited amount of content available for free; app has 10M monthly unique users — It'll cost five bucks every four weeks, and it's the latest step in the Times' push toward a business more reliant on reader revenue.
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AP News:
ABC says it has reached a settlement with the South Dakota meat producer who filed the $1B pink slime lawsuit in 2012 — https://apnews.com/fd4b266039154733b014 4b75e2de88ba — Link copied! — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — ABC says it has reached a settlement with a South Dakota meat producer …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Frederick G. Smith, VP of Sinclair Broadcasting Group, donated $1K to Greg Gianforte's campaign a day after he was charged for body-slamming a Guardian reporter — The vice president and director of Sinclair Broadcasting Group, which has often been criticized for its conservative slant …
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CNN:
CNN Politics launches “The Point with Chris Cillizza”, a multiplatform brand that includes daily columns, a podcast, an evening newsletter, and more — CNN Politics announced Wednesday the launch of ‘The Point with Chris Cillizza,’ a multiplatform brand capturing analysis …
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Mediaite, @cillizzacnn, @ashleyfeinberg and @parkermolloy
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Copy editors ask NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn to compromise on cuts, softening planned reduction of 109 editors to 50-55 — New York Times copy editors facing staff cuts or new jobs in a re-imagined editing system sent a letter to the newspaper's …
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Maya T. Prabhu / Post and Courier:
Judge puts off decision on jailing SC political blogger for contempt of court for withholding names of anonymous sources in defamation lawsuit — LEXINGTON — A judge did not make a decision Wednesday if he will jail a Columbia-area political blogger for being in contempt of court for withholding …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News has signed Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who will be stepping away from his role on June 30, as a contributor starting July 1 — Jason Chaffetz, the Republican Congressman from Utah, will join Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network as a contributor, the networks announced Wednesday.
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Paul Chadwick / The Guardian:
The Guardian rolls back much of its WhatsApp backdoor story, which was decried by 70+ experts, but will leave it online with a note highlighting deficiencies — The Guardian was wrong to report last January that the popular messaging service WhatsApp had a security flaw so serious that it was a huge threat to freedom of speech.
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Stephen Buranyi / The Guardian:
Elsevier and two other publishers of scientific journals still dominate the high-profit business, with only about a quarter of papers published via open access — n 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein Research in London, made a bet that the dominant firm …
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