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5:55 PM ET, September 16, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook gave special counsel Mueller data on Russian ad buys including copies of ads, targeting and account info, withheld same details from Congress  —  Social-media company shared copies of ads and account information, people familiar with the matter said
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Google allowed advertisers to target racist and bigoted keywords, suggested more similar keywords, and allowed campaigns using those keywords to run  —  Google prompted BuzzFeed News to run ads targeted to keywords like “black people ruin neighborhoods,” then allowed the campaign to go live.
Brian Patrick Byrne / The Daily Beast:
Twitter also allows advertisers to target users based on racist and derogatory terms like the n-word and “Nazi”  —  Twitter's advertising platform tells prospective marketers it has 26.3 million users interested in the derogatory term “wetback,” 18.6 million accounts that are likely …
Jim Brady / ESPN:
Jemele Hill's tweets broke ESPN guidelines, but all of ESPN's personalities are in a tough spot, urged to be active and engaging but not partisan or opinionated  —  As public editor, I've referenced ESPN's internal and external battles over politics and cultural coverage many times in the past 10 months.
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Interview with Joy Reid, host of MSNBC's AM Joy, on moving from reporting to commentary, growth of her audience amid election, her family and education, more  —  Joy Reid has not figured out how to bend the rules of space and time, though regular viewers of MSNBC can be forgiven for thinking she somehow has done just that.
Hamza Shaban / Washington Post:
Social network Gab, favored by the alt-right, sues Google for removing its app from the Play Store, claims Google violated antitrust laws  —  The alternative social media site Gab.ai is alleging that Google violated federal antitrust laws when the tech giant booted it from the Google Play Store …
Financial Times:
24-year-old Financial Times reporter Paul McClean has died while on holiday in Sri Lanka; officials say he was attacked by a crocodile  —  Paul McClean, an accomplished young reporter who joined the Financial Times two years ago as a graduate trainee, has died during a beach holiday in Sri Lanka.
Discussion: AOL, The Guardian and Press Gazette
John Eggerton / Multichannel News:
FCC asks Sinclair to explain how it will comply with existing ownership limits if it buys Tribune Media, also seeks details on how Sinclair will invest in news  —  Also wants specifics on complying with current rules  —  The FCC's Media Bureau has asked Sinclair to back up a bunch …
Reuters:
Turkey releases French journalist Loup Bureau, held since early August after covering Kurdish militia fighters  —  French President Emmanuel Macron last month expressed his concerns about Loup Bureau's detention in a telephone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
Discussion: France 24
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Supported by a grant from Center for Cooperative Media, Quartz is partnering with The Monitor, a local paper in Texas, to study the effects of climate change  —  The collaboration between Quartz and The Monitor is supported through a grant from the Center for Cooperative Media
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Meghan McCain, Fox News contributor and co-host of its afternoon program Outnumbered, is leaving the network
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
With two weeks to go before Germany's election, two fact checkers say false news has so far failed to gain attention, as trust in media rises
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Gizmodo general counsel Lynn Oberlander reflects on worrying legal climate for journalism: return of libel, ramifications of Hogan case, anti-journalist feeling
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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