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The Daily Beast:
How Twitter account @Umpire43 used the identity of a dead Navy SEAL and triggered false stories on The Gateway Pundit, InfoWars, and One America News Network — The rightwing blog The Gateway Pundit pushed a single-sourced rumor from the anonymous Twitter account @Umpire43 that claimed …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
How white men from Ivy League schools benefited from a form of affirmative action at The New Republic, and how it affected women and people of color — In 1991, the African American Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter wrote a book called Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby.
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC News fires Matt Zimmerman, senior vice president for booking, news, and entertainment, after allegations of inappropriate conduct with female colleagues — The allegations of inappropriate conduct were brought to the attention of human resources recently.
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TVNewser, The Wrap, @thr, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Variety, Deadline and TVWeek.com
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube partners with Ticketmaster to sell concert tickets on artists' video pages, starting from today in the US — YouTube today announced a partnership with Ticketmaster that will see the Google-owned video network connecting fans with concert tickets and tour information directly on artists' YouTube video pages.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg's new Twitter network will launch Dec 18; sources say it has already secured eight-figures in ad revenue for its first year — Bloomberg's new Twitter network will launch on Dec. 18 with six founding partners: Goldman Sachs, Infiniti, TD Ameritrade, CA Technologies, AT&T and CME Group — and more are in the works.
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Gizmodo, @diofavatas, @justin_b_smith and Talking Biz News
Matt Pressberg / The Wrap:
A&E, Scripps, Discovery, AMC, and Viacom invest $25M in Philo, a streaming service offering programming from 35+ cable TV channels for $16 a month — Algorithms, like Netflix's recommendation engine, have been the secret sauce for streaming television, turning viewers on to shows they never knew they liked.
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Recode, @shiraovide, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Home Media Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable and Ad Age, more at Techmeme »
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Two journalists still face charges after arrests amid inauguration protests; one, Alexei Wood, goes to trial Wednesday and faces up to 61 years in prison — On Jan. 20, the day Donald J. Trump was being sworn in as president in front of the Capitol, a limousine was set on fire and storefront windows were smashed nearby.
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Freedom House:
Report: governments in 30 countries manipulated social media to counter critics, drive specific agendas, more; elections in 18 countries may have been affected — Key Findings Online manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States.
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Recode, @jonathantaplin, @rabois, The Guardian and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Amazon says it has “no plans to create a free, ad-supported version of Prime Video” following AdAge report — An alternate to the $99 subscription — Update November 14th, 11:06AM ET: This article was updated to include a statement from Amazon denying the claims.
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BGR, The Playlist, Tubefilter and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Facebook issues statement saying it has not observed “significant coordination” by Russia-linked accounts targeting Brexit vote, amid UK MPs calls for more info — Facebook has issued a carefully worded statement that appears to admit for the first time that some Russia-linked accounts …
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TechCrunch, Vanity Fair, The Week, @markdistef, @justinhendrix, @peterjukes and Mashable, more at Techmeme »
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
With video and audio, The Skimm pushes further into the daily routines of its 6 million readers — From a single morning email, it's grown into a multi-product brand that its fans can interact with throughout the day. “We've always said email was a marketing tool for us.
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Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz:
Survey: 67% of customers watch Netflix on mobile devices in public, 26% watch at work, ~45% have caught others spying on their screens — We will watch it on a plane. And in the dark. And on a train. And in a car. And in a tree. Okay, maybe not that last one.
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Wired, Bustle, Business Insider, Mashable, thefutoncritic.com and Tubefilter
Chavie Lieber / Racked:
Inside the swag retail economy, where magazine staffers sell promotional items to supplement income, and how companies lack policies regarding the practice — How editors turn their gifts into cash. — PHOTOGRAPHY BY TED & CHELSEA CAVANAUGH — PIN — A few months ago …
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