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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter says users can now have verified status revoked, unveils new guidelines for verified accounts as it works on authentication and verification program — A risky new step in the fight to reduce harassment — Twitter will begin removing verification badges from users who violate its rules, the company said today.
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Brandy Zadrozny / The Daily Beast:
More than a dozen current and former employees at Vice say the company has a culture of sexual harassment that management ignored — In the summer of 2015, Phoebe Barghouty was 23 years old and had a new master's degree in journalism from Stanford—but little other experience …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
UnitedMasters, led by Steve Stoute and supporting musicians as record labels have, raised $70M Series A from Alphabet, a16z, and 20th Century Fox — Record labels are obsolete. They haven't kept up as music evolved from selling CDs to streaming songs to promoting concert tickets and merchandise.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
How the Weinstein Company is crumbling amid outside lawsuits, a potential internal lawsuit, and possible bankruptcy — Whether the disgraced mogul ends up broke or behind bars, one thing is certain: His judicial woes have just begun. Says one expert, “I've never seen anything like this.”
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The Guardian:
Edinburgh University study identifies 419 Russia-linked Twitter accounts that tweeted about Brexit, all from a list of 2,752 accounts Twitter supplied to US — Researchers find that accounts run from a St Petersburg troll farm tried to sow discord between Britons over the referendum
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Kickstarter launches Drip, a new service that lets fans subscribe to their favorite creators, including Feminist Frequency's Anita Sarkeesian — The platform focuses on ongoing support rather than one-time projects. — National Observer is no stranger to successful crowdfunding campaigns.
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Stevan Dojcinovic / New York Times:
Serbian journalist says Facebook testing split News Feed for Pages and friends was ill-conceived and served to stifle the fledging democracy's independent media — BELGRADE, Serbia — My country, Serbia, has become an unwilling laboratory for Facebook's experiments on user behavior …
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Samuel P. Jacobs / TIME:
Interview with Tina Brown on the appeal of Trump, sexual harassment, what Facebook and Google owe journalists, and her new memoir, The Vanity Fair Diaries — In 1983, the British editor Tina Brown arrived in New York City at the age of 29. She had already led the British society chronicler Tatler …
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@page88, @bernardchickey, @davewiner and @brianstelter
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Voice of America reporter Joshua Fatzick has been placed on administrative leave during investigation of Reddit posts — Joshua Fatzick, an alt-right Voice of America reporter, has officially been placed on administrative leave after his racist, sexist, and bigoted Reddit posts were exposed by this reporter.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Inc. is launching Sports Illustrated TV, a $4.99 per month OTT subscription service, on Amazon Channels, with original docu-series, licensed movies, more — Time Inc. — in another big bet on pivoting its business toward video — is launching Sports Illustrated TV, its first over-the-top subscription-video service.
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Patrick Strudwick / BuzzFeed:
Newly-appointed Gay Times Editor Josh Rivers has been suspended after his old racist, anti-semitic, and transphobic tweets were uncovered — Josh Rivers apologised after BuzzFeed News asked him to square a series of old racist, misogynistic, and ableist tweets with his new public support for diversity.
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Ken Bensinger / BuzzFeed:
Witness in FIFA trial says that six media companies, including Fox Sports, bribed officials for soccer broadcasting rights; Fox denies claim — The federal courthouse in Brooklyn where the FIFA trial is talking place on November 13, 2017 in New York. — Don Emmert / AFP / Getty Images