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Chris Wylie says Breitbart's Steve Bannon approved Cambridge Analytica's 2014 work to collect Facebook data; firm used focus groups to test views on Putin, more — LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with David Carroll, a New York professor who sued Cambridge Analytica in the UK under the Data Protection Act, hours before news of the scandal broke — iday, David Carroll filed a legal challenge in Britain asking the court to force Cambridge Analytica to disclose how it came …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Source: Mark Zuckerberg expected to address Facebook employees about Cambridge Analytica scandal at 1pm ET on Friday during the company's regular Q&A session — And Sheryl Sandberg is too — After nearly four days of silence from top executives on the unfolding controversy around …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Source: Zuckerberg and Sandberg weren't at staff Q&A on Facebook role with Cambridge Analytica; Facebook says execs are “working around the clock” on the issue — It's not just that he's silent in public. Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face …
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Jason Abbruzzese / NBC News:
Facebook confirms Zuckerberg will speak publicly in the next 24 hours on Cambridge Analytica scandal, as stock market plunges wipe nearly $50B of its value — #WheresZuck had become a question in the past couple days — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak publicly in the next 24 hours with a …
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Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Cambridge Analytica's board suspends CEO Alexander Nix, saying it's with immediate effect, pending a full, independent investigation
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Tom Namako / BuzzFeed:
Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a Fox News contributor for 10 years, quits and denounces the network as a “propaganda machine” in email to colleagues — “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association,” Col. Ralph Peters wrote in an email to colleagues. “Now I am ashamed.”
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Google and Facebook were built to destroy publishers, not help; Google's $300M pledge to journalism won't go directly to publications, who need real checks — Guess who's winning? — For argument's sake, let's believe that Google believes its newest efforts to boost publishers …
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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Google says it will spend $300M over the next three years to support journalism and fight disinformation through the newly announced Google News Initiative
Jim Albrecht / The Keyword:
Google debuts Subscribe with Google, which lets users buy subscriptions to news sites using Google Accounts and access them from apps, sites, and search results
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Former Playboy model Karen McDougal sues National Enquirer owner, seeking to be released from a 2016 contract requiring silence about alleged affair with Trump — A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring …
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
comScore data shows Breitbart's readership has fallen by nearly 50%, a drop from 15M unique visitors in October to 7.8M in February — The onetime voice of the pro-Trump alt right struggles to find a niche without its driving force, Steve Bannon. — Breitbart, the alt-right news site …
Bart Jones / Newsday:
Les Payne, a former Newsday editor, Pulitzer Prize winner, and founder of the National Association of Black Journalists, has died aged 76 — Distinguished journalist was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and a chronicler of memorable events in a Newsday career of nearly four decades.
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Rupert Murdoch's absence from News Corp following a serious back injury is worrying investors, as he says he'll be back in a couple of weeks — The Fox titan, 87, is recovering from a serious back injury and says via email, “I'm looking forward to being back in the office in a couple weeks.”
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Google's global head of music, Lyor Cohen, says YouTube will start putting more ads in between music videos to encourage subscriptions to upcoming music service — It's a cultural change for a company that was built on free — YouTube will increase the number of ads that some users …
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