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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress “within a matter of weeks” — Zuckerberg says he's open to testifying before Congress — After repeated calls for him to do so, Mark Zuckerberg has decided he will testify before Congress.
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Shona Ghosh / Business Insider:
Facebook says Zuckerberg won't answer UK politicians' questions over data scandal, will send CTO Mike Schroepfer and chief product officer Chris Cox instead
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman invites top Facebook, Google, and Twitter execs to an April 10 hearing on the “future of data privacy and social media”
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Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Fair housing groups sue Facebook, saying its ad targeting tools still allow discrimination against certain groups, including disabled veterans, single mothers — Fair housing groups filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday saying that Facebook continues to discriminate against certain groups …
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
NBC has fired EVP Scot Chastain, who ran marketing for its affiliated and owned television stations, after an interval investigation into alleged misconduct — - ‘Pretty Little Liars’: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum Directing Spinoff ‘The Perfectionists’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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Ad Age, The Wrap, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
By attacking Parkland students, some mainstream voices on political right are adopting conspiracy mongering and bad-faith arguments from outlets like Infowars — Six months ago, the conservative radio host and blogger Erick Erickson wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times, inspiringly titled “How to Find Common Ground.”
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Neil Shah / Wall Street Journal:
Last year, US recorded music revenue rose 17% to $8.7B; amount of music released in 2017 is ~7x that of 1960; many artists focus on singles over albums — The sea of music that the industry is producing has both artists and fans feeling submerged — In the age of music-streaming, some fans are drowning.
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@wsj, @bmorrissey and @steven_hyden
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Google revamps its Play Store and Play Movies & TV app to show users where they can stream content from 28 streaming services, not including Netflix — Google is promoting Android streaming-media apps from partners — including HBO, Amazon, Hulu, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC …
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BuzzFeed:
The FBI has a report written by former British agent Christopher Steele that claims RT founder Mikhail Lesin's death was not an accident and that he was killed — The author of the famous Trump dossier provided a secret report to the FBI asserting that RT founder Mikhail Lesin was bludgeoned …
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Aaron Rich, brother of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich, files lawsuit against The Washington Times and number of others for spreading conspiracy theories — This is why the Seth Rich conspiracy won't disappear — The brother of Seth Rich, the slain Democratic National Committee staffer whose …
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Mediaite, The Hill, The Forward and The Daily Dot
Joe Nocera / Bloomberg:
Heath Freeman, the 37-year-old president of Alden Global Capital, the firm which recently purchased the Boston Herald, is the Gordon Gekko of newspapers — The reality is even worse: This raider sinks decimated newsrooms' revenue into bad investments. — Heath Freeman, the 37-year-old …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is frustrating the traditional Hollywood studios by poaching their talent and driving up pay, offering $400K for publicist roles alone — Streaming service rewrites pay rules, aided by soaring growth — Netflix Inc. has turned heads in Hollywood by spending billions …
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Business Insider, @ourand_sbj, @lucas_shaw and @gerryfsmith
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Turner Sports is launching Bleacher Report Live, a sports streaming service carrying thousands of live sporting events, in April; pricing to be announced — ‘Queer Eye’ Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix March 26, 2018 — Get the Magazine — The most trusted provider of news and information to the entertainment industry.
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Eleanor Dickinson / Mumbrella Asia:
Bloomberg expands TicToc, its Twitter video news service, into Asia, with a staff of 12 journalists in Hong Kong — Less than three months after launching in New York, Bloomberg has expanded its 24/7 Twitter news service TicToc into Asia. — The business media powerhouse has strung together …
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