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8:50 AM ET, August 4, 2017

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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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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 …
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)
Discussion: KTLA
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.
Discussion: @ajs and @mdudas, more at Techmeme »
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 …
Discussion: Popehat and Techdirt
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.
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 …
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 …
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
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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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
How CNN's response to reporters invoking the Statue of Liberty has varied, depending on the staffer and the year
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Caroline Heldman, a former Fox News guest, says a Fox consultant named Woody Fraser offered her a paid gig at the network in exchange for sex
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Univision posts Q2 profit of $106.1M, up from $74.7M a year ago, with core revenue increasing 5.3% YoY to $753.5M
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
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Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Site supported by German Marshall Fund tracks Russian-supported disinfo on Twitter; Alliance for Securing Democracy plans analyses for Facebook, Reddit, YouTube
Julia Dahl / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reflections on writing for the New York Post and how reporter and subject interactions, for the sake of clicks, shape society's perception of news media