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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Tech companies should act to prevent hoaxes and fake stories, as misinformation experts know how to swarm news events, benefiting from real-time amplification — When they woke up and glanced at their phones on Monday morning, Americans may have been shocked to learn that the man behind …
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BuzzFeed:
Google, Twitter, and Facebook now play big roles in politics to gain revenue and influence; they should work together on campaign ad transparency and disclosure — Facebook, Google, and Twitter all directly advised campaigns on how to influence voters — and the help may have been decisive.
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Facebook should have a searchable database of all ads and ramp up authenticity requirements for all buyers, not just for those self-reporting as political
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CNN:
Sources: some Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted key areas of Michigan and Wisconsin, aimed at people susceptible to anti-Muslim messages — (CNN)A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory last November …
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Bloomberg:
YouTube has removed Russia Today, with more than 2.5M subscribers, from its Google Preferred premium ad inventory program — RT Network's YouTube presence may be part of U.S. lawmakers' scrutiny — As part of a wide-ranging investigation into how Russian-linked operatives harnessed social media during …
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Profile of Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer who, sources say, is leading the internal investigation into Russian meddling
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Max Read / New York Magazine:
How Facebook's increasing size and scope, potential for abuse, and new use cases led Zuckerberg to rethink its neutral role and emphasize community values
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Wall Street Journal:
Verizon says Yahoo breach in 2013 affected all of its 3B users, up from initially reported 1B users — Company disclosed late last year that 2013 hack exposed private information of over 1 billion users — A massive data breach at Yahoo AABA 1.95% in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed …
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Wayne Ma / Wall Street Journal:
Movie ticket sales in China were underreported by about 9% in 2016, MPAA audit finds, translating into $40M+ in lost revenue for six Hollywood studios — Audit uncovers underreported audience numbers, ticket sales and unreported screenings — HONG KONG—Hollywood is being shortchanged …
Mary Hui / Washington Post:
CBS fires vice-president and senior legal counsel Hayley Geftman-Gold over Facebook comments saying she had no sympathy for Las Vegas victims — CBS fired a company executive Monday after she criticized some victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting as “Republican gun toters” who did not deserve sympathy.
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Bethania Palma / Snopes.com:
More than two dozen celebrity Facebook pages regularly link to low-quality sites like Jellyshare.com; Facebook's spam filters appear circumvented — We tracked 29 fake domains that post to verified celebrity pages through an unknown mechanism. Here is what we found.
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Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Peter Madsen to be held for four more weeks as new evidence emerges in reporter Kim Wall's death — Cause of journalist's death yet to be established, court hears, as murder suspect Peter Madsen's custody is extended — The suspected killer of Swedish journalist Kim Wall will be detained …
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Reuters/Ipsos: US confidence in press rose to 48% in Sept. from 39% in Nov. 2016; confidence rose 3 points among Republicans, 11 points among Democrats in 2017 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans are increasingly confident in the news media and less so in President Donald Trump's administration …
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Taylor Lorenz / The Hill:
Ex-White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has launched The Scaramucci Post, a media company he claims will be “millennial-first” and centrist — NEW YORK — Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci officially launched his new media company at a Monday night event.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Interactive news features often break or disappear from the web, worrying archivists — “I like to talk about it as reading today's news on tomorrow's computer.” — So many pioneering works of digital journalism no longer exist online, or exist only as a shadow of their former selves.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Steve Coogan says the role of Piers Morgan and other Mirror execs in phone hacking scandal has not been properly scrutinized — Steve Coogan has said he believes phone hacking took place for “up to 15 years” at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People newspapers.
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