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Mark Zuckerberg:
Facebook will make Pages disclose who paid for political ads and let users see all current ads from that advertiser, rolling out over the coming months — I just went live a minute ago. Here's what I said: — Today is my first day back in the office after taking parental leave.
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Facebook's efforts to overhaul political ads on its platform are crucial first steps, but vulnerabilities remain — FACEBOOK HAS AGREED to give Congressional investigators roughly 3,000 political ads it found linked to Russian accounts that ran during the 2016 election.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Analysis of Zuckerberg's nine-point plan to combat election interference on Facebook — Election meddling is Facebook's next adversary, and it's got a plan to attack it just like it did with fake news. Solutions to both these scourges come too late to prevent tampering …
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@brianstelter, Recode, The Hill and The Verge
Colin Stretch / Facebook:
Facebook says it will hand over information on Russia-linked ads bought during 2016 election campaign to Congressional investigators — Two weeks ago, we announced we had found more than 3,000 ads addressing social and political issues that ran in the US between 2015 and 2017 and that appear …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Two Democratic senators seek co-sponsors for bill requiring digital platforms with 1M+ users to keep public files of all political $10K+ ad buys
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Washington Post, @hshaban, @michaelwhitney, @matthewstoller, The Hill, New York's PIX11 and @ellgood, more at Techmeme »
Gary Baum / Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of Your News Wire, an LA-based outlet run by a couple that champions populist stories and has been a target of Snopes — Your News Wire, a 3-year-old website of murky facts and slippery spin, is published by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway — a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016 …
Reuters:
Time Inc is looking to sell assets including Time Inc UK; warns about more-than-anticipated softness in Q3 print and ad revenues, says it received SEC subpoena — (Reuters) - Time Inc (TIME.N) said on Friday it was looking to sell several assets, including Time Inc UK …
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Google and its partners will issue refunds for ads bought through its systems that ran on websites with fake traffic — Company says several major online ad ‘exchanges’ have agreed to cooperate — Alphabet Inc.'s GOOGL .00% Google confirmed Thursday it will issue refunds for ads bought through …
Daniel Chivu / Daily Front Row:
Interview with Choire Sicha, formerly of Gawker, The Awl, and Vox Media, as he takes over as editor of The New York Times Style section — Five years ago, The New York Times boardroom seemed an unlikely place for a tête-à-tê te with former Gawker star Choire Sicha.
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@bendwalsh, @gerryfsmith, @harmancipants, @kateschimel and @nbj914
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sleeping Giants database lists 2,900 advertisers that have blocked Breitbart since November; Breitbart EIC Alex Marlow calls the work “corporate censorship” — Hardly anyone paid attention last November when a strangely named Twitter account, Sleeping Giants, sent its first tweet into the digisphere.
Nieman Lab:
Media in the Middle East study: Arab nationals twice as likely as Americans to trust mass media; two-thirds get news from social media every day — Two-thirds of respondents in the countries studied said they get news from social media every day. — Editor's note: Everette E. Dennis …
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Samantha Power / New York Times:
As citizen's media diet shifts towards unfiltered social media, which lacks old media's gatekeepers, propaganda from Russia and elsewhere becomes more potent — When George Washington gave his Farewell Address in 1796, he urged the American people “to be constantly awake” to the risk of foreign influence.
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@kevinrothrock, @azitaraji, @samanthajpower and Snopes.com
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Misinformation hasn't gained much traction during Germany's election season so far, with false stories shared far less than during US election — Compared to the US, Britain and France, Germany's national election looks downright boring. That's a good thing.
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