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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
Facebook should explain how it will design surveys ranking trust in news sources, whether media can contest rank, whether user ideologies will be a factor, more — Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that Facebook will begin surveying users about which news sources they trust, in an effort to rank publications on “trustworthiness.”
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to survey users to measure trust in publications, data will affect News Feed rankings; news will make up 4% of News Feed posts, down from 5% — Tech giant will rely on user surveys of trustworthiness to try to preserve objectivity — Facebook Inc. FB .57% plans to start ranking news sources …
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Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
Profile of Glenn Greenwald, who is consistently skeptical of Trump-Russia ties and DC power structures, and who now positions himself as a fierce media critic — It's 10:45 p.m. Rio de Janeiro time. Glenn Greenwald and I are finishing dinner at a deserted bistro in Ipanema.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Profile of Robyn Tomlin, recently named McClatchy's regional editor overseeing eight newspapers in the Carolinas — Robyn Tomlin remembers, all too well, the high school teacher who tried to persuade her to drop out of school. — “She basically told me I didn't belong there anymore,” Tomlin said.
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Dan Rather, 86, to launch a weekly half-hour show, The News With Dan Rather, with The Young Turks Network starting Monday, aiming to add context to news — Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather wasn't too familiar with The Young Turks Network when he took a meeting …
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Twitter:
Twitter to email 670K+ US users who interacted with tweets from Russia's Internet Research Agency, found 50K+ Russia-linked bots tweeting election content — When we appeared before the United States Congress last fall, Twitter publicly committed to regularly updating both congressional committees …
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Dave Brooks / Amplify:
A look at Ticketmaster's $110M settlement of a lawsuit by Songkick, after Songkick was acquired by Warner Music Group, according to SEC filing — Songkick may have prevailed in its two-year legal battle against Ticketmaster, but it came at a significant cost.
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Inside the lives of social media stars' parents who are mastering new platforms, dealing with shady agents, and focused on the physical safety of their kids — When then-14-year-old Jonas Bridges ran down the stairs of his Atlanta home shouting, “Dad, I've got 1,000 fans!” his father, Rob Bridges, hardly took notice.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Twitter COO Anthony Noto, who has led Twitter's push into live video, is in talks to become SoFi's new CEO, following Mike Cagney's departure — SoFi has been looking for a permanent CEO since Mike Cagney resigned in September — Anthony Noto, a top Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.58% executive …
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Howard Polskin / MediaShift:
In December FoxNews.com had 312.7M global visits, Breitbart had 81M; 22% of Infowars' audience comes from overseas according to SimilarWeb and TheRighting.com — Beginning every morning, I aggregate opinion and reporting from more than a dozen right-leaning websites for my website TheRighting and its companion newsletter.
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix's new docuseries lineup includes a Vox explainer show and Flint Town, an eight-part series exploring the aftermath of Flint, Michigan's water crisis — Anonymous Content-produced ‘Flint Town’ will take a look at the water crisis in the Michigan community, while the untitled series …
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Tech journalist Joshua Fruhlinger and fintech company Thinknum launch Thinknum Media, which will produce public-facing stories using Thinknum's data — Fintech company Thinknum has lots of interesting data to sell access to. Now it wants to build public-facing stories out of it.
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