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Will Oremus / Slate:
Facebook's rollout of “related articles” is a sensible way to add context while insulating the company from cries of censorship — Facebook may have finally hit on a promising way to fight its “fake news” problem. — The company on Thursday announced that it is launching …
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to display “related articles” for popular stories, including ones flagged as false by fact checkers, to combat misinformation, after months of testing — Social-media giant will display related articles to limit the damage of false news without censoring posts
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
CEO Bob Dickey says Gannett still wants to acquire more newspapers, even as same-property print ad revenue falls 16.8% YoY — With print revenues plunging and digital businesses coming along slowly, Gannett is still sticking with its plan to acquire more local newspaper organizations.
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John Herrman / New York Times:
YouTube has emerged as the new conservative talk radio for a younger generation of right-wing vloggers like Paul Joseph Watson and Stefan Molyneux — In June, Zack Exley, a political organizer and a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, published a report on …
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Maria Elena Salinas is leaving Univision as an evening news anchor after more than three decades on the air — Maria Elena Salinas with Jorge Ramos at the Univision-Washington Post Democratic debate held at Miami-Dade College on March 9, 2016. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Julie Bort / Business Insider:
Profile of Twitter COO Anthony Noto, described as a divisive “war time” CEO as Dorsey runs two companies, who plans focus on live video to fix Twitter's woes — - Anthony Noto, COO of Twitter, and former Goldman Sachs banker, is leading the company through challenging times.
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Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing:
Ken White, aka Popehat, was suspended from Twitter for 12 hours for posting screenshots of threats he received from another user — This morning, Twitter covered Ken “Popehat” White's profile page in balloons to celebrate his birthday. This afternoon, it suspended his account …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Inside Patreon, which has 50K active creators, 1M+ patrons, is set to process $150M in 2017, and supports a myriad of people that otherwise may not get funding — In 2013, Peter Hollens was an aspiring a cappella singer surviving, in his words, by living on ramen in someone else's house.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
CBS hires David Lawenda, a former Facebook marketing executive, as executive vice president of digital sales and sales strategy — Network restructures sales unit, Jo Ann Ross upped to chief revenue officer — CBS Corp. CBS.A -.20% has tapped a former Facebook FB .06% marketing executive …
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Tony Romm / Recode:
Senate confirms Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel and Republican Brendan Carr to FCC's two open slots — Lawmakers sent Brendan Carr, a Republican, and Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, to the telecom agency — The Federal Communications Commission is set to return to its full strength …
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Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg:
Source: Fox is in talks with Ion Media to operate local TV stations across the US, potentially paving the way for Fox to dump Sinclair as an affiliate partner — Joint venture is said to include Ion, Fox-owned stations — Fox is said to mull moving affiliation from Sinclair channels
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Angelica LaVito / CNBC:
Viacom beats targets, reporting Q3 net earnings of $680M on $3.36B revenue, up 8% YoY, driven by sale of Epix and growth in ad and affiliate revenues — - The company beat earnings expectations in both the first and second quarters, yet the company's stock is down on the year.
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