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The Hill:
Senate committee investigating potential Russian election interference invites Facebook execs to testify on Nov. 1; source says Google and Twitter also invited — The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a request for Facebook to testify in an open hearing to examine how foreign actors …
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Mark Zuckerberg:
Trump and some liberals say Facebook helped their opponents, but Facebook's role was different: 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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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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Gizmodo, @thecipherbrief, CNNMoney, Adweek, Mashable, Forbes, @jayrosen_nyu, Bloomberg, Engadget, Fortune, TechCrunch and BuzzFeed, more at Techmeme »
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” …
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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ESPN, Wall Street Journal, Snopes.com, Fortune, FierceCable, @karlbode, @jlmarchese111 and Mashable
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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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Fortune and @niemanlab
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Online content creation platform Playbuzz announces $35M Series C led by Viola Growth with participation from existing investors including Walt Disney — The company has raised $66 million to date — Online content creation platform Playbuzz has raised an additional $35 million …
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MediaPost, Globes Online, CTECH, City A.M., Business Insider, AdExchanger, Variety, Financial Times and VentureBeat
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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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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Business Insider and @petersontee
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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Press Gazette, @jonathanhaynes, @kirstinferguson, @ldobsonhughes, @janemartinson, @mrharrycole, @kevin_maguire and Net Worked
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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Washington Post
Yahoo! Finance:
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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RAIN News and hypebot, more at Techmeme »
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.
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