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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Police confirm four shot at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, three hospitalized, one dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound, suspected shooter was a woman — San Bruno received multiple 911 calls from headquarters, report says — At least four people were shot at YouTube's headquarters …
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Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
Alleged YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam had denounced the platform for age-restricting videos on her website; her father warned police she might visit YouTube HQ — The woman posted frequently on the video sharing platform about animal cruelty, vegan recipes, and said she believed YouTube was discriminating against her.
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Twitter account of YouTube product manager Vadim Lavrusik was hacked and shared fake news during YouTube HQ shooting; Twitter deleted hoax tweets from account — As Twitter users searched for news about today's shooting at YouTube headquarters, hackers were actively compromising a verified employee account to spread misinformation.
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Katie Roof / TechCrunch:
Spotify closes at $149.60 on its first day, down ~10% from opening but still far above private market price of ~$132, giving the company a market cap of ~$26.5B — Spotify is done with its long-awaited “direct listing” experiment. The music streaming company went public without the IPO.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Spotify, which posted operating loss of $461M in 2017, thinks its reliance on labels will ease; sources: hope is more artists will work directly with Spotify — The streaming music company wants to get more music — and more profitable music — from the little guys.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WPP board is looking into allegations of misuse of company assets and improper personal behavior by Chief Executive Martin Sorrell — Questions come as advertising giant is facing cost-cutting pressures from clients and stepped-up competition from Google, Facebook
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Alex Stamos / Facebook Newsroom:
Facebook deletes 70 FB accounts, 138 FB Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by Russia's Internet Research Agency this morning, shares samples of IRA content — This morning we removed 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram accounts — as well as 138 Facebook Pages — that were controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA).
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Internal Facebook white paper says Trump campaign spent $44M on FB ads while Clinton team spent $28M from June-November 2016; Trump team ran 5.9M ad versions — The president's ad campaign was 'more complex than Clinton's' — Trump focused on new donors; Clinton on ensuring broad appeal
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Bloomberg:
Review of Sinclair employment contracts shows some employees cannot resign from firm without incurring a penalty equivalent to 40% of their annual compensation — Noncompetes, forced arbitration and a liquidated damages clause can equal 40 percent of annual salary. — , and
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, said print media has no credibility and no relevance
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Sumner Redstone will not have final say on potential CBS-Viacom merger as he has only one vote on National Amusements, the holding company owning voting stakes — The 94-year-old media mogul would be one vote among seven National Amusements board members — Sumner Redstone …
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Facebook Newsroom:
Facebook is rolling out an “About this article” button in the US, showing where an article's been shared, the publisher's Wikipedia entry, and related stories — Last year we started a test in the US to give people more background information about the publishers and articles they see in News Feed.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News President Jack Abernethy releases statement in support of Laura Ingraham, says network will not be “censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts” — The cable news outlet's co-president Jack Abernethy said the network won't be “censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts.”
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Zach Campbell / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Bulgaria, anti-fraud investigators are probing the owner of two of the country's last independent news outlets, in a move he says is politically-motivated — When a Bulgarian anti-fraud commission announced the results of its investigation into Ivo Prokopiev's business dealings late last year …
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