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Ina Fried / Axios:
Craigslist pulls all personal ads after passage of sex-trafficking bill FOSTA, says any tool or service can be misused and that it can't take such risk — Online classified site Craigslist has pulled its entire personal ad section after Congress passed a new sex-trafficking bill that puts more liability on Web sites.
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Oli Coleman / Page Six:
BET Network removed WaPo journalist from conference after she published about Michelle Obama's talk; BET claimed talk was private, also posted selections online — Talk about going Postal. — The BET Network booted a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from its conference for publishing …
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Sky News:
UK's High Court has granted an application by the Information Commissioner's Office for a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's office — The High Court has granted an application by the Information Commissioner's Office for a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's London office.
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Four lawsuits against Facebook by its users and shareholders have been filed in federal courts so far after Cambridge Analytica revelations — The lawsuits are piling up against Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse and political ad targeting scandal.
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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
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Tumblr confirms 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency and has begun emailing users who interacted with them; accounts were ID'd and deleted last fall — Tumblr has confirmed that Kremlin trolls were active on its platform during the 2016 US presidential elections.
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The Guardian:
Student journalists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas will guest edit the Guardian US for 48 hours starting today and oversee coverage of March for Our Lives — Guardian US has invited student journalists from the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead to direct our coverage of March for Our Lives …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
John Bolton is the third TV commentator in eight days hired by the White House, continuing a trend of placing TV faces in positions of consequence — Less than an hour after President Trump named John R. Bolton as his new national security adviser on Thursday, Mr. Bolton made an appearance …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Medium is rewarding select authors with $100 cash bonuses for high-quality posts in important topic areas, chosen by its editors — A year ago, publishing platform Medium debuted a new business model where readers could pay a monthly fee to access exclusive, curated content …
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Urvi Malvania / Business Standard:
India's Reliance to merge its JioMusic with music streaming platform Saavn, creating an entity valued at $1B+, with JioMusic's implied valuation of $670M — RIL has picked up partial stake from current shareholders for $104 million and will be investing another $100 million for the growth of the combined Jiomusic-Saavn
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News and BBC News intend to open a joint news bureau in Johannesburg, another development in the newsgathering partnership struck in July 2017 — CBS News and BBC News intend to open a joint news bureau in Johannesburg, South Africa, one of the more significant developments …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
PBS formally names Judy Woodruff as anchor of NewsHour, its nightly newscast, and hires two correspondents: Amna Nawaz, also a fill-in anchor, and Nick Schifrin — PBS is naming Judy Woodruff the sole anchor of the “NewsHour,” its flagship nightly newscast.
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Oleg Matsnev / New York Times:
About two dozen Russian publications vow to curtail coverage of Russian Parliament after ethics commission exonerated a lawmaker accused of sexual harassment — MOSCOW — Numerous Russian news media outlets vowed on Thursday to curtail their coverage of the State Duma …
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