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7:10 AM ET, March 9, 2018

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Sources: Barack and Michelle Obama are in advanced talks with Netflix to produce a series of exclusive shows, possibly highlighting inspirational stories — WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows …

Mike Fleming / Deadline:

Netflix buys rights to Extreme Universe comics from Rob Liefeld, creator of Deadpool, in a seven-figure deal — EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has bet big on the Extreme Universe of graphic novel characters hatched by Rob Liefeld, whose disruptive Deadpool creation was the blockbuster movie surprise of 2016.

Discussion: HYPEBEAST, The A.V. Club, /Film, Engadget, TV Shows, The Verge and Vulture

Maria Temming / Science News:

Study of 4.5M+ tweets from 2006 to 2017 confirms inaccurate news spreads faster and further than true stories, and humans, not bots, are primarily to blame — An analysis of 4.5 million tweets shows falsehoods are 70 percent more likely to get shared — There's been a lot of talk …

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Sources: Jared Kushner talked to David Brock and Univision chair Haim Saban about buying New York Observer in January 2017; source says $20M price ended talks — Just days before heading to a West Wing job, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was secretly engaged in talks to sell …

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StarWars.com:

Iron Man director Jon Favreau to write and produce a live-action Star Wars series for Disney's new streaming service — The director of Iron Man and The Jungle Book will helm the series for Disney's new direct-to-consumer platform. — Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Emmy-nominated producer …

Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:

Fox News settles suit with Diana Falzone, who said she was demoted after writing about her medical disorder; lawyer says she has left the company — Diana Falzone, a reporter who covered entertainment and issues related to sexual harassment, has settled a lawsuit with Fox News and left the company …

Discussion: Mediaite

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

The Better India, a news org focused on positive news gets 80% of its revenue from sponsored content, has 1.9M Facebook followers, 100K newsletter subscribers — “It was a huge revelation: If these kinds of stories, read by just a few thousand back then, could drive this kind of response …

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

How WGBH uses volunteers and gamification to transcribe and tag metadata on thousands of hours of public radio and television to secure a reliable archive — It might not be the sexiest journalism innovation, but WGBH is hoping to keep public radio and public television's massive archives alive …

Reporters Without Borders:

Egyptian prosecutors seek death sentence for photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, who was arrested in 2013 during an anti-government protest while on assignment — Organisation — RSF_en — Prosecutors have requested a death sentence for Mahmoud Abou Zeid, an Egyptian photojournalist known …

Discussion: Middle East Eye, @coreypein, @kristenmctighe, @freeegyptpress and @malikramzanisra

Wall Street Journal:

Analysis shows that IRA-backed trolls flooded social media to oppose Romney as a possible secretary of state, following claims that Russia was opposed to him — Online campaign targeted the ex-GOP nominee as Donald Trump considered him in late 2016 — Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president …

Discussion: The Hill, more at Techmeme »

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google says it is taking the lessons it has learned from AMP and is applying them to web standards that could allow instant loading for non-AMP web content — Can the most contentious piece of the web form the basis of a new standard? — In a blog post today, Google is announcing …

Discussion: Search Engine Journal, Mashable, Accelerated Mobile …, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, ZDNet and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Reuters:

Turkish court sentences 25 journalists to prison on charges of aiding or being members of an armed terrorist organization, linking them to a failed 2016 coup — ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced 25 journalists to jail for allegedly aiding the network that Turkey accuses …

Discussion: Middle East Eye, Middle East Eye, DW.COM, Committee to Protect … and Associated Press

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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David McCabe / Axios:
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David McCabe / Axios:
Senator Lindsey Graham says he wants to hold hearings to question social media companies about how threats of gun violence spread online

New York Times:
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

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Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

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