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Fox News confirms it has parted ways with host Eric Bolling, after allegations he sent inappropriate texts, including photos of male genitalia to colleagues — The news comes a month after HuffPost reported he sent unsolicited lewd texts to female colleagues.
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Fox Business anchor Charles Payne is returning to his program after the end of internal sexual harassment review — Charles Payne, shown on the air at the Fox Business Network studios in New York in April 2015, is returning to Fox Business. (John Lamparski / Getty Images)
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As push notifications increase, publishers like Bustle, CNN, and The Guardian are increasingly encouraging readers to customize them — Publishers have had a hard time getting mobile app users to personalize their notifications, so they're trying new tacks.
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The Economist is increasingly using Asian chat app Line, which can drive as much traffic as Facebook, by posting a diverse range of stories to its ~1M followers — Since starting to post to the popular Asian app Line in January 2016, The Economist has grown its following to nearly 1 million in several countries.
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Snap partners with four college papers for Campus Publisher Story section in Discover tab, will split revenue, and says it'll add 24 more over next three months — Student papers from Berkeley, Texas A&M, Wisconsin and Syracuse are coming to Snapchat. — Snapchat is partnering with a new set of publishers: College newspapers.
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Owner of ShareBeast song-sharing site, Artur Sargsyan, pleads guilty to copyright infringement, will be sentenced Dec. 4, could face 5 years in prison — Artur Sargsyan, the owner of the massive song-sharing site ShareBeast, has pleaded guilty to copyright infringement, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced on Friday.
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Sources: Facebook is willing to spend $1B through 2018 on original video for its platform, a dramatic increase on its current video deals — Social-media giant could spend as much as $1 billion to cultivate original shows for its platform — Facebook Inc. FB .65% is loosening its purse strings …
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Profile of Rotten Tomatoes, which some blame for a 15% YoY downturn in summer movie ticket sales, examining editorial process, blowback from movie studios, more — LOS ANGELES — Hollywood had a horrible summer. — Between the first weekend in May and Labor Day, a sequel-stuffed period …
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TraceMe, founded by NFL star Russell Wilson, raises $9M led by Madrona, with Jeff Bezos participating, to connect celebrities with superfans via in-app content — As Russell Wilson describes the ethos of his new startup, it feels like you're inside his Seahawks huddle, driving down the field in the fourth quarter.
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CBS says Hillary Clinton will appear on Colbert's Late Show on 9/19 to promote her new book, What Happened, and talk about her 2016 campaign — “What happened,” you ask? — Whether or not you will have read Hillary Clinton's upcoming book of that title by Sept. 19, she will take to television …
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Ethics experts says Breitbart paying Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who runs Trump's voter fraud panel, breaks federal conflict of interest rules — “If you're getting paid by somebody to write about your official duties, that seems to me a clear problem," an ethics expert says.
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Medium adds curated articles from The New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and others to its premium membership program — Members can enjoy curated selections from The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, and more


Sen. Mark Warner and experts raise idea of regulating political ad spending on Facebook similar to broadcast radio and TV — Facebook is facing a new push to reveal how its vast power is being used after it disclosed that roughly $100,000 worth of political ads were purchased on its platform …
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Facebook needs to acknowledge its power, including through paid-for disinformation, during the US election
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