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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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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
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
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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
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
Facebook says it will hand over information on Russia-linked ads bought during 2016 election campaign to Congressional investigators
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
New York Times insiders question whether copy desk cutbacks and digital first strategies led to a mistake laden book review — A deeply inaccurate book review has set off much consternation, and soul-searching, at 620 Eighth Avenue. — Last weekend, The New York Times's normally stately …
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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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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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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
WAN-IFRA survey of 235 media executives and managers in 68 countries finds nearly 2/3 say revenues declined in past year, top area for investment is video — Worry is universal — but a quarter of publishers surveyed said their revenues are going up, not down.
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Pew Research Center:
Pew study: 57% of people in US say news outlets do a good job covering science; 54% get science news from outlets that cover a range of news topics — A majority of Americans rely on general outlets for science news but more say specialty sources get the facts right about science
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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 …
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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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 …