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Shawn Musgrave / Politico:
How 4chan trolls organized to spread misinformation about Florida shooter's ties to a white supremacist group; ADL, ABC, AP, and others spread the false story — ABC, AP and others ran with false information on shooter's ties to extremist groups. — Following misrepresentations …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Covering Parkland shooting means balancing informing the audience with interviewing traumatized teenagers who may not be able to give informed consent — The morning after the school massacre in Parkland, Fla., NBC's “Today Show” aired a dramatic live interview Thursday.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram, New York Times, @jbenton, @mack_oxenden, @jennamargaretta, @sulliview and CNN
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Since 2016, American Media has made Karen McDougal professional promises and paid $150K in a catch-and-kill arrangement for her story of her affair with Trump — One woman's account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.
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CNBC:
US indicts 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities, including Internet Research Agency, in Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections — - Special counsel Robert Mueller said a grand jury had indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Post, Mediaite, The New York Observer, Forbes, Washington Post, HuffPost, @adrianchen, Slate, Rolling Stone, ZDNet, Forbes, Geller Report, The Stranger …, @niemanlab, The Guardian, @senatortomudall, WTKR-TV, Recode and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
New analysis shows 36K tweets from Internet Research Agency linked most often to Breitbart News, then Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle; RT ranked 19th
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Nieman Lab, Wired, Slate, Fast Company, @themattorr, @wired, Jonathan Couser and Jonathan Albright
Klint Finley / Wired:
Google says 42% of sites notified made preemptive changes ahead of Chrome ad blocker launch; fewer than 1% of most popular sites violate suggested ad guidelines — YOU MIGHT SEE fewer ads on the web from now on. But you probably won't. — On Thursday, Google Chrome …
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, more at Techmeme »
David Beard / Poynter:
Interview with The Intercept's Research Director Lynn Dombek on researchers, their skill sets, and their role in site's Dakota pipeline and Rob Porter stories — Move over, Woodward and Bernstein. — This era's great journalistic diggers include Julie Tate, Kitty Bennett, Alice Crites, Margot Williams and Sheelagh McNeill.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Guardian's new podcast player, available online and as an app, which provides show notes like links, graphics, and more in real time — The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab's podcast player for the mobile web lets you listen to a show without using a podcast app …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
At the Digital News Initiative Summit on Thursday, Google previewed a “Subscribe with Google” feature in Google Play for publishers who use paywalls — Hey, Google — how do we solve the news industry's various revenue problems? — Google gave a preview of some features it's …
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@marcusschwarze, @jeffjarvis and @jeffjarvis
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The shift to a reader-sustained business model means subscriptions cancellations and reader boycotts will have a bigger impact on revenue and possibly coverage — With its shift in business models, the paper of record will inevitably change to reflect its new masters.
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@noahcrothman, @nycsouthpaw, @anthony, @jayrosen_nyu and Splinter
Aoife White / Bloomberg:
Belgian court rules Facebook is illegally collecting user data via cookies on third party sites, must remove data, threatens €250K/day fines for noncompliance — Fine of up to 250,000 euros a day if company doesn't comply — Social network to appeal, says cookies are industry standard
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The Guardian and Reuters, more at Techmeme »
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
District court in New York rules that by embedding a tweet with copyrighted content, websites may violate copyright, rejecting years of settled legal precedent — The defendants including Breitbart, Time, Vox and the Boston Globe warned a loss would “cause a tremendous chilling effect on the core functionality of the web.”
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Nieman Lab, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Search Engine Land, The Daily Caller, Digital Photography Review, TechCrunch, The Verge, Fast Company, @jbenton, The Daily Dot, PC Magazine, @felixsalmon, Techdirt, The Outline, @cdgoldstein, Boing Boing, TorrentFreak, Billboard and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
After signing a licensing deal with Getty, Google Image Search removes View Image button; Search by Image button also removed but still works through search bar — Google has removed the View Image button and the Search by Image feature when viewing an individual image within Google Image Search.
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