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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
YouTube and Facebook remove conspiracy videos claiming Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg was an actor but, in many cases, only after promoting them — - YouTube promoted a video featuring a conspiracy theory claiming that one of the survivors of the school shooting last week in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The outspoken Parkland students inherently understand how to counteract pro-Trump media, stripping conspiracy theorists and critics of power by mocking them — On Monday night, the pro-Trump media set its sights on a new political enemy: young adult survivors of gun violence.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft was pulled from social media censorship panel at CPAC after Gateway Pundit shared theories without evidence about shooting survivors — A speaker has been pulled from a panel planned to coincide with the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media is laying off 50 employees and offering reassignments to 12 others, with the cuts mainly affecting SB Nation, Curbed, Racked, and video services team — The cuts, which mainly targeted social video teams, were announced by CEO Jim Bankoff on Wednesday morning.
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Financial Times:
Digital media companies like Vice Media, Vox Media, and BuzzFeed are struggling with an uncertain ad market, changes to Facebook's News Feed, and more — Winter has arrived for a new generation of digital media companies with missed revenue targets, an uncertain advertising environment …
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Om Malik, @robinwigg, @stevemaich and @ahmed
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
The Atlantic plans to add up to 100 employees to its newsroom over the next twelve months, hiring a mix of writers, editors, and podcast producers, among others — A media company is expanding its newsroom. You read that right. — The Atlantic plans to add as many as 100 employees …
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Newsweek:
Newsweek gave 10 pages of free print ads to a New York county where Olivet University was creating a campus, showing more Newsweek-Olivet ties amid DA probe — Note from the Editors: As we were reporting this story, Newsweek Media Group fired Newsweek Editor Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li …
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Paris Martineau / The Outline:
Medium suspends the accounts of alt-right personalities Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and Laura Loomer, after updating policy to tackle disinformation — By far the biggest change made by Medium is the addition of a section called “Related Content,” which reads “We do not allow posts …
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Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Twitter suspends accounts for posting false claims about being attacked at Black Panther screenings, after CEO admits site lacks scalable policy on fake news — While “Black Panther” was busy breaking box office records, Twitter trolls were busy inventing bogus stories …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish says its Sling TV service had 2.21M subscribers in Q4 2017, a 47% YoY increase from 1.5M, the first time its broken out the numbers — Sling TV, Dish Network's internet-delivered skinny bundle, stood at 2.21 million subscribers as of the end of last year — the first time the satellite operator …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
FCC filing: Sinclair has buyers lined up for New York and Chicago TV stations to meet FCC ownership limits, would keep running the stations via service contract — Sinclair Broadcast Group plans to sell Tribune Media's TV stations in New York and Chicago to comply with FCC ownership limits …
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Radio & Television …, Multichannel News, TVNewsCheck and Bloomberg
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Facebook signs music licensing deal with Europe's ICE Services, covering 290K rights holders for music used on Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, and Messenger — Facebook today took its latest step towards making good on paying out royalties to music rightsholders around tracks that are used across its multiple platforms and networks.
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