Mediagazer: Facebook lists ways it fought misinformation in German election: removing “tens of thousands” of fake accounts, using Related Articles, cutting clickbait, more (Richard Allan/Facebook)

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Richard Allan / Facebook:

Facebook lists ways it fought misinformation in German election: removing “tens of thousands” of fake accounts, using Related Articles, cutting clickbait, more — There's been great interest in the role of the internet in the German elections last weekend.

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Tony Romm / Recode:

In tweets, President Trump accuses Facebook of always being “anti-Trump” and questions whether it colluded with newspapers and TV networks — The attack comes as Trump takes aim again at reporters — President Donald Trump charged on Wednesday that Facebook was “always” …

Mark Zuckerberg:

Trump and liberals both blame Facebook, but the company had broad 2016 election impact: enabling discussions, voter registration, and candidate outreach — I want to respond to President Trump's tweet this morning claiming Facebook has always been against him.

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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:

AT&T's DirecTV is giving refunds to customers who want to cancel their subscriptions to NFL's Sunday Ticket because of national anthem protests — Subscribers to AT&T Inc.'s DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket who want to cancel the service because of football players' national anthem protests can get refunds …

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Three public radio execs, including NPR's Creative Director Liz Danzico, are studying how driverless cars will change public media — “The connection between cars and public media is so strong. What happens when that connection is shaken a little bit?" — Picture this: Your car is driving you to work.

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Eugene Kim / CNBC:

Roku sets IPO price at $14/share, valuing firm at $1.3B, begins trading Thursday on NASDAQ — Roku set its IPO price at $14 per share, according to Dow Jones, which would give the video streaming device maker a $1.3 billion stock market value when it debuts on Thursday.

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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:

UK left-wing news site The Canary wrongly claimed that BBC political reporter Laura Kuenssberg was speaking at Conservative party conference — UPDATE (5.25pm 27/09/17): The Canary has updated its article to include a claim that the BBC did not respond to a request for comment before the article was published.

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Peter Walker / The Guardian:
The BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has been given a bodyguard while covering the Labour party conference after receiving abuse online

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Jessica Davies / Digiday:

The Financial Times warns advertisers after uncovering fraudulent ad inventory masquerading as FT.com, to the value of $15.6M a year — The Financial Times has investigated the scale of domain spoofing occurring against its site, and has been shocked by the results.

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Greg Evans / Deadline:

HBO documentary about legendary WaPo editor Ben Bradlee will debut December 4 — HBO will debut John Maggio's doc The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee on Monday, December 4. The film about the legendary Washington Post editor, told primarily in his own words …

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Sources: private trades in Spotify ahead of public offering value company at ~$16B, or about 4X its 2016 sales — LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Private trades in Spotify shares are valuing the music streaming company at about $16 billion, according to people familiar with the deals, raising the prospect of a bumper flotation next year.

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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:

BuzzFeed seeks to compel testimony from James Comey or James Clapper in defamation lawsuit stemming from publication of Trump-Russia dossier — In a defamation suit, BuzzFeed is trying to compel testimony from James Comey or James Clapper to establish the document's centrality to the Russia investigation.

Jemele Hill / The Undefeated:

ESPN anchor Jemele Hill discusses her tweets about Trump, the pressure she's come under since, ESPN facing backlash, meeting with John Skipper, and more — A lesson from her grandmother: Be better. No matter what. — I don't remember exactly how old I was, but let's just say I was 11.

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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:

Paul Horner, who published some of the most popular fake news stories of the 2016 election cycle, has died aged 38 in a suspected accidental overdose — Paul Horner published some of the most popular fake news stories of the 2016 presidential election. Horner even said that he believes …

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