Mediagazer: State Department has spent $0 of the $120M allocated by Congress since late-2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy (Gardiner Harris/New York Times)

1:25 PM ET, March 5, 2018

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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:

State Department has spent $0 of the $120M allocated by Congress since late-2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy — WASHINGTON — As Russia's virtual war against the United States continues unabated with the midterm elections approaching …

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

Profile of PragerU, a nonprofit site whose five minute explainer videos, presented by well-known conservative pundits, have amassed 1B+ YouTube, Facebook views — A right-wing online “university” is on track for a billion views in 2018, its professors are some of the best-known conservatives in media …

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

The world - and Hollywood - has changed since last year's Oscars, thanks to courageous reporting by the press on men like Harvey Weinstein — The world has changed since last year's Oscars — and for the better. — So let's not forget what got us there: great journalism.

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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:

A “Spotify for News” won't work for the same reasons Spotify itself is struggling: competition from the “big four” in tech, which will ramp up over time — Spotify's IPO is scheduled for this spring. Its SEC Filing offers an interesting perspective on the future of the news industry.

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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:

Turkish government attempts to clamp down on country's digital media with proposed law which will make broadcasting via internet illegal without a license — ISTANBUL — Having already brought Turkey's mainstream media to heel, and made considerable headway in rolling back Turkish democracy …

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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:

YouTube says it did not tell Alex Jones his Infowars channel would be deleted from the site on Sunday; as of Sunday evening, it was still available — Conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones, that guy who thinks the government is flooding waterways with chemicals that turn frogs gay …

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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

Profile of Outlier Media, a free text message-based news service for low-income residents in Detroit offering to check the public record of houses or landlords — “I was not satisfied with covering low-income communities for a higher-income audience. I wanted to cover issues for and with low-income news consumers."

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