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1:40 PM ET, March 11, 2018

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Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
Twitter has suspended several accounts, some with millions of followers, that allegedly engaged in tweet stealing and “tweetdecking”, mass-retweeting each other  —  Continuing its battle against the “tweetdeckers,” Twitter suspended on Friday several popular accounts known …
Dan Mitchell / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT's Farhad Manjoo tweeted an average of 15x a day for two months while he was supposedly unplugged from social media to get news from print  —  So many writers have produced “I went offline, and here is what I learned” stories that they became a tedious cliché years ago.
Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip:
Study: reporters driving Facebook engagement come from hyper-partisan sources like Breitbart and the Daily Wire; two in the top 50 write for fake news sites  —  With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
Discussion: @jason_kint
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with YouTube's chief business officer, Robert Kyncl, on managing the Logan Paul controversy, accusations that YouTube is politically biased, and more  —  “We should have done better,” the chief business officer says of how the company handled the star's widely condemned vlog …
Discussion: Polygon
Deborah Copaken / The Atlantic:
Freelancer charts harassment by former New York Observer editor Ken Kurson and the Observer's lack of formal complaint process for non-staff members  —  1. Land a job.  At a new online magazine for approximately the same salary you earned in 1992, but whatever.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Quartz debuts a Facebook Messenger bot that delivers news, introduces readers to Quartz Obsessions, and more, after good responses to its Quartzy chatbot  —  I feel like I'm back in 2016, because Quartz on Thursday announced the launch of its Facebook Messenger chat bot …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Tronc's new publisher Ross Levinsohn has a history of large expenses, lavish parties, and persuading corporate employers to buy startups founded by his friends  —  Editor's note: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive.  —  One of the nation's most important newspaper companies …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their integrations with Giphy after users saw a racist GIF as an option to add to images  —  Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their Giphy GIF sticker features after users saw an extremely racist GIF as an option to add to their images.
Columbia Journalism Review:
Study: mainstream news outlets that embedded IRA tweets were generally using the tweets to reflect provocative, partisan public opinion on social issues  —  Image by Greyweed via Flickr.  —  The New York Times's Bari Weiss was in the news again yesterday, this time for citing a hoax Twitter account …
Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
Facebook gets exclusive rights to stream 25 MLB afternoon games, Facebook's first major US sports league exclusive; sources estimate price at $30-$35M  —  Social network is said to pay $30 million to $35 million  —  First time a major U.S. league has given Facebook exclusivity
 
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
U.S. News & World Report is shutting down its opinion section as part of a shift in coverage from Washington DC, to health, education, and the economy
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
In a leaked tape, Newsweek CCO blamed BuzzFeed report on ad fraud for Newsweek operating at “50% of the revenue needed to cover costs”; gave outlet 5 weeks
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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
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
New York Times:
Sources: Barack and Michelle Obama are nearing a content deal with Netflix for a series of shows; Apple and Amazon also expressed interest