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4:25 PM ET, March 27, 2018

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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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Sara Salinas / CNBC:
FTC says it has an open non-public probe into Facebook's privacy practices; a violation of consent decree signed in 2011 could carry a penalty of $40K/violation
BuzzFeed:
The FBI has a report written by ex-British agent Christopher Steele claiming that 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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
American Media Inc., publisher of The National Enquirer, has created a ~100 page magazine devoted to fawning coverage of Trump ally Prince Mohammed bin Salman  —  A nearly 100-page magazine published by Donald Trump's allies at American Media Inc. is providing a different kind of celebrity gossip …
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Politico unveils its redesigned website, which has seen 30% YoY growth in traffic and averages 26M+ uniques a month  —  The new site launches today  —  When Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown returned to the prominent American political journalism outlet as editor in 2016, redesigning Politico.com was near the top of her “to-do list.”
Discussion: @bdayspring and @jeremymbarr
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 …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
US district court dismisses suit against YouTube from conservative nonprofit PragerU that claimed YouTube is a public forum that can't restrict access to videos  —  A judge holds that YouTube isn't a “public forum” run by a “state actor.”  —  Google has prevailed in a lawsuit that alleged YouTube …
 
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Michael Safi / The Guardian:
Three journalists have been killed in India after being mowed down by cars in what their families said were deliberate attacks
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Media says it has appointed Dominique Delport as its chief revenue officer and president of international
Discussion: Adweek and Variety
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Sources: publishers express concern at GroupM request to sign data protection contract that could force them to share audience data with agency group
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

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Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others
 
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