Mediagazer: 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 (Wayne Ma/Wall Street Journal)

1:20 AM ET, October 4, 2017

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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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Profile of Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer who, sources say, is leading the internal investigation into Russian meddling

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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 …

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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.

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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