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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Bannon bashed outlets like Washington Post for not reporting from places like Alabama, and now claims conspiracy after WaPo's deep dive on Alabama's Roy Moore — Breitbart boss Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday night ripped The Post. “The Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
At least five advertisers back away from Fox News' Hannity following his coverage of allegations against Senate candidate Roy Moore — - At least five companies said over the weekend that they will no longer advertise their products during Fox News' “Hannity.”
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Fox News criticized Trump during the election but now has more pro-Trump hosts and rarely airs critical stories, instead focusing on Clinton-related stories — The network that sparred with him as a candidate now rarely challenges him. — During the Republican primary contest …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Liz Smith, who chronicled the lives of the rich, famous, and beautiful for over three decades in tabloid gossip columns, dies at 94 — Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York's tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives …
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Lindsey Adler / Deadspin:
Becca Schultz, who blogged about baseball while posing as a married man for 8 years since she was 13, accused of duping and harassing women on Twitter — For the last eight years, baseball fan-turned-writer Becca Schultz has presented herself online as Ryan Schultz, a false identity she assumed …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
YouTube decided to treat jihadist recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki as it treats terrorist organizations, removing most of his videos, including his mainstream lectures — WASHINGTON — For eight years, the jihadist propaganda of Anwar al-Awlaki has helped shape a generation of American terrorists …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sources: Radhika Jones, New York Times books editorial director, to be named the next editor of Vanity Fair as soon as Monday — In a dramatic changing of the guard, Radhika Jones, the editorial director of the books department at The New York Times and a former top editor at Time magazine …
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Muddy media reports about Facebook's test to fight revenge porn show the company needs more direct, on-the-record talks with journalists — A Facebook executive has been complaining about negative press coverage, yet the company declines to engage with journalists.
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Jonathan Albright / Medium:
Analysis: propaganda memes from Russia's Internet Research Agency were more impactful on Instagram than Twitter due to reposting apps, Facebook's ad targeting — The last couple of weeks have brought us the first new major revelations about the reach and scope of the IRA media influence campaign.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How the Washington Post succeeds on Reddit, using a profile run by social media editor Gene Park to share stories, respond to comments, and make jokes — User: “Lol is this the real WaPo account?” The Washington Post: “'tis we, irl.” — Democracy dies in dankness.
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the site's redesign, coming in Q1 2018 — At Web Summit this week in Lisbon, Portugal, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talked about the site's upcoming redesign. Reddit launched in June 2005, and its look and feel has changed little over the past decade — certainly not at all in the past four or five years.
Christina Larson / Foreign Policy:
Facebook, blamed for unintended consequences of the service in nations like Myanmar, says “product and integrity research team” is headed to SE Asia this month — Zuckerberg needs to stop courting Beijing and start paying attention to the countries where Facebook matters.
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