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10:25 AM ET, April 20, 2018

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CNNMoney:
Investigation: 300+ organizations' ads ran on extremist YouTube channels despite many advertisers saying they use YouTube's sensitive subject exclusion filter  —  Advocates say YouTube is collecting kids' data  —  Ads from over 300 companies and organizations — including tech giants …
CNNMoney:
At antitrust trial, AT&T's Randall Stephenson announced AT&T Watch, a $15/month bundle with no sports; spokesman says it will debut in “next several weeks”  —  Here's a different way to announce a new product — during your testimony in a federal court case.
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In court, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says Time Warner deal would help AT&T keep up with tech giants, sending content directly to viewers and improving ad sales  —  Why the AT&T-Time Warner trial matters  —  After weeks of testimony from economists, survey experts and rival executives …
Pew Research Center:
Pew: 58% in US prefer to protect the freedom to publish rather than letting government restrict false info; 56% favor tech firms restricting false information  —  But 56% support steps from technology companies, even if it means some limits on publishing and accessing information
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Cohen drops libel lawsuits against BuzzFeed and Fusion GPS over publication of Steele dossier, which alleges he met with Russian operatives for Trump  —  Embattled attorney Michael Cohen has dropped a pair of much-touted libel suits against BuzzFeed and the private investigation firm Fusion GPS …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Cheddar and Hulu make a deal to bring Cheddar's live linear content to Hulu Live TV, with daily news briefs and other content coming to Hulu on-demand  —  Cheddar isn't done making deals with the over-the-top streaming TV providers.  Only yesterday, news came out that Cheddar was the first digital …
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
A look at Facebook's month-long rollout of its fact-checking tool and its partners in Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Colombia  —  What started as a pilot project 16 months ago is now one of Facebook's primary weapons against fake news.  —  During his testimony to Congress last week …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MoviePass parent to sell 10.5M shares at $2.75, 28.2% below Wednesday's $3.83 closing price, as auditor has “substantial doubt” about MoviePass' future  —  - Vice Inks Netflix, Theatrical Deals for Motherboard's ‘The Most Unknown’ Science Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
NBCU joins Fox, Viacom, and Turner in OpenAP consortium with a buy-in that costs $10M, sources say; OpenAP standardizes categories ad buyers can purchase  —  OpenAP membership can cost up to $10 million over five years  —  Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal has been reluctant to support OpenAP …
 
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Researchgate, which lets researchers share papers, reaches deal on copyright with Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Thieme; Elsevier, others hold out
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Source: Meredith rejected a $300M+ offer for Time, Fortune, Money, SI from AMI; interest in the outlets is from wealthy individuals with non-media backgrounds
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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Netflix has considered buying movie theaters in New York and Los Angeles; it decided not to pursue LA-based Landmark Theatres due to high price
David Ingram / Reuters:
Facebook says it will change T&C in May for 1.5B users outside of Europe to be governed by US ToS instead of Ireland ToS, limiting GDPR impact to 400M users
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The Tampa Bay Times is cutting about 50 jobs across departments; spokeswoman says the cuts are a direct response to rising costs from newsprint tariffs
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data
 
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