Mediagazer: How the big tech platforms including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, who've pledged to provide accurate information during major crises, are failing miserably (Charlie Warzel/BuzzFeed)

10:15 AM ET, October 3, 2017

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Sydney Smith / iMediaEthics:

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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

How the big tech platforms including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, who've pledged to provide accurate information during major crises, are failing miserably — In aftermath of Sunday evening's mass shooting in Las Vegas, visitors to Facebook's Crisis Response page for the tragedy …

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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:

Facebook's Safety Check page for Las Vegas shooting promoted sites giving misinformation like Alt-Right News and End Times Headlines; Google highlighted 4Chan — In the wake of the deadly shooting in Las Vegas last night that left more than 50 dead and hundreds injured …

Elliot Schrage / Facebook:

About 10M people saw Russian ads on Facebook, 44% of ads were seen before Nov. 8, 50% of ads were for $3 or less; for 99% of the ads, less than $1,000 was spent — What was in the ads you shared with Congress? How many people saw them? — Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social …

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Washington Post:

Sources: Russians used Facebook's Custom Audiences retargeting tool to ID voters and send specific ads and messages to influence them — A sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (Ben Margot/AP) — SAN FRANCISCO — Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites …

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New York Times:

Sources: Russian efforts included FB pages named Secured Borders, LGBT United, Defend the 2nd, alongside formerly reported fake Blacktivist and Muslim accounts — SAN FRANCISCO — The Russians who posed as Americans on Facebook last year tried on quite an array of disguises.

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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 — The same company that gives you birthday reminders also helped ensure the integrity of the German elections.

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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.

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BBC:

Comedian Steve Coogan wins damages and an apology from Mirror Group Newspapers over phone hacking; MGN counsel admits Coogan was target of “unlawful activity” — Comedian Steve Coogan is to receive damages and an apology from Mirror Group Newspapers over phone hacking.

Discussion: Sky News, The Independent, ITV, Prolific North and The Guardian

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.

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft discontinues Groove Music Pass service, effective December 31, partners with Spotify, which it will recommend to Windows users instead — Microsoft rebranded Xbox Music to Groove Music two years ago, in a bid to make its music streaming service more relevant to consumers.

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