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Michael Del Moro / ABC News:
Parents of Seth Rich, the DNC staffer killed in 2016, have sued Fox News, Malia Zimmerman, and Ed Butowsky over retracted story connecting Rich to a conspiracy — The family of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, who was killed in 2016, has filed a lawsuit against Fox News …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Elon Musk is backing comedy project from former Onion editors Cole Bolton and Ben Berkley, who've hired three writers and an editor away from The Onion — Early in February, the satirical news publication The Onion published a story about Elon Musk, titled, “Elon Musk Offering $1.2 Billion …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube will add Wikipedia information to videos about popular conspiracy theories within weeks to provide alternate viewpoints — Pushing back on crazy theories — YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories …
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has started limiting the number of hours its part-time content moderators can view disturbing videos to four hours per day — A move to protect workers' mental health among growing criticism — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said today that the video platform …
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
A&E Networks Chief Executive Nancy Dubuc becomes CEO of VICE, while co-founder Shane Smith moves to executive chairman role — News comes a day after Dubuc made official her plans to leave a longtime role at A+E Networks. — Nancy Dubuc is officially taking the reins at Vice.
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RT:
Russia's Foreign Ministry says it will expel British media from Russia if the UK revokes RT's broadcasting license — Not a single British media outlet will be working in Russia if London decides to shut down RT broadcasting in the UK, Maria Zakharova, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Some cable networks have again aired a live Trump campaign rally filled with insults and falsehoods, and it's still wrong — Even before the 2016 presidential election, CNN's top honcho admitted that his network had given Donald Trump too much free exposure in the Republican primary.
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@brianstelter, @sulliview, @parkermolloy, @emmartin173, Margaret Sullivan, @vtlen, @sulliview and Washington Post
Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
How conservative activists from Project Veritas use hoax job recruitment and seduction to catfish tech giants like Twitter; experts question legality — Mo Norai has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade. He's done stints at Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple, but only as a contract worker …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Sources: subscribers to newspapers will find articles from those outlets appearing higher in Google search results; Google to share more details on March 20 — Tech giant said to begin sharing data on potential customers — Publishers have pushed for new tools to find readers who pay
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti discusses the company's missed 2017 targets, struggles with advertisers, and potential for a partial paywall on the site — This article is a free preview of the new issue of Digiday magazine, our quarterly print publication that's distributed to Digiday+ members.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A look at Lynx Insights, a Reuters in-house automation tool that surfaces trends and anomalies in data, which reporters can then use to accelerate their work — With Lynx Insights, Reuters wants to marry the data-crunching skills of machines with the editorial judgment of human reporters.
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@jonathanstray, @jeluebering, Journalism.co.uk and @niemanlab
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Facebook is aiming to launch a news section for its Watch platform this summer and is testing different video partnerships with roughly ten publishers — Facebook is getting ready to launch a news section for its Watch platform and it's testing different video partnerships with roughly 10 publishers, Axios has learned.
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Debra Kamin / Variety:
CBS News President David Rhodes says Stormy Daniels interview has not been delayed because of legal action from Trump and dismissed talk of an injunction — JERUSALEM — CBS News boss David Rhodes hasn't seen Stormy Daniels' “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper, but he promises that it's coming soon.
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Hollywood Reporter, Washington Post, CNN and Fortune