Mediagazer: W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects (Adrianne Jeffries/The Outline)

8:40 PM ET, September 22, 2017

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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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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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Colin Stretch / Facebook:
Facebook says it will hand over information on Russia-linked ads bought during 2016 election campaign to Congressional investigators

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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 …

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Ellen Pollock / The New York Times Company:

New York Times names Jim Windolf as media editor beginning September 26 — Jim Windolf, who has led Men's Style since it was founded in 2015, will join Business Day on Sept. 26. Read more in this note from Ellen Pollock: — I'm thrilled to announce that Jim Windolf will be our new media editor.

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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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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.

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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Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline:

W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects — The organization that sets standards for the web just failed to beat back a stupid, greedy technology. — This week the World Wide Web Consortium …

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 …

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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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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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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