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Highlights from CNN's interview of Mark Zuckerberg: “I'm really sorry that this has happened” and that he is “happy to” testify before Congress — Mark Zuckerberg is responding to the fallout following the revelation that Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the personal data of 50 million Facebook users.
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Kara Swisher / Recode:
In interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has made mistakes in building its platform, the fixes will not be easy and will cost “many millions of dollars” — In a wide-ranging interview, the Facebook CEO admitted that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook Head of News Partnerships Campbell Brown says it was “not probably our wisest move” to threaten to sue The Guardian over Cambridge Analytica stories — Facebook was blindsided by the user-data scandal that has grabbed the headlines in the past week …
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Mark Zuckerberg:
Zuckerberg says Cambridge Analytica breached Facebook's trust, which caused Facebook to break users' trust, and vows to prevent it from happening again
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Producer and comedian Byron Allen's entertainment studio to acquire Weather Channel from Comcast, Blackstone, and Bain; source says deal valued around $300M — Comedian and producer Byron Allen acquired the Weather Channel TV network as he looks to expand his film and TV production company into a major media business.
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Lara O'Reilly / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google wants publishers that use its ad tech to get users' consent on its behalf to comply with EU's General Data Protection Regulation — Tech company also is offering a tool to serve nonpersonalized ads to users who opt out of ad targeting — Alphabet Inc.'s GOOGL -3.73% Google …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CNN's Jeff Zucker calls Fox News a “pure propaganda machine” with unquestioning coverage of the Trump administration: “Tass has nothing on them” — CNN chief Jeff Zucker didn't mince words Thursday in sizing up the state of Fox News, calling the rival all-news cabler …
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
RIAA report: US retail revenue for music rose 17% in 2017 to $8.7B, with streaming accounting for two thirds of the revenue; paid subscriptions rose 63% to $4B+ — Domestic retail revenue jumped 17% in 2017 to $8.7 billion, according to an annual report from the Recording Industry Association of America
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Atlantic launches a family vertical, the first to have a Facebook group and newsletter, with coverage across its site, magazine, podcasts, videos, events — The Atlantic has launched a new family section, to which it's taking an expansive, multiplatform approach, reflecting the publisher's focus …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Hewlett Foundation report on social media, political polarization, and disinformation finds that while research into fake news is growing, much remains unknown — A big new report from the Hewlett Foundation pulls together existing research on social media, political polarization …
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@shansquared, @joseph_santoro and @niemanlab
Bloomberg:
Starting in April, YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to sites selling guns and videos showing how to assemble guns; some accounts already affected — Google's new policy prohibits promotion of guns, bump stocks — At least one video gun blogger ditched YouTube for PornHub
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Jordan Cohen / The New York Times Company:
Caity Weaver is leaving GQ to join New York Times' Styles desk and be a writer-at-large for the magazine — Caity Weaver, a stylish and frequently hilarious writer at GQ, will join the Styles desk. She will also be a writer-at-large for the magazine. Read more in this note from Choire Sicha, Jake Silverstein and Carolyn Ryan:
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
New York Media, publisher of New York magazine, has acquired Splitsider from The Awl Network and will fold it into Vulture to boost Vulture's comedy coverage — The comedy site is one of the two remaining properties in the portfolio of The Awl Network — New York Media, the publisher …
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