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5:55 PM ET, April 28, 2018

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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Tom Brokaw denies accusations of unwanted advances in an email sent to NBC News colleagues, claims accuser sought him out and calls her claims “sensational”  —  The revered NBC News anchor accused of unwanted advances pens a strenuous denial and defense of his legacy.
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
NBC News faces skepticism that it can reform in-house sexual harassment amid more accusations against Matt Lauer and new accusations against Tom Brokaw
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Joy Reid pivots from hacking claims during monologue, says she doesn't believe she wrote the blog posts and apologizes for her past comments about LGBTQ people  —  MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Saturday morning offered a lengthy apology for a series of homophobic blog posts attributed to her …
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Claims by Joy Reid's cybersecurity expert that her old blog was compromised fall apart when compared with archived versions
Mathias Döpfner / Business Insider:
In Q&A after receiving the Axel Springer award for 2018, Bezos says he would never interfere in The Washington Post's coverage because it would feel “gross”  —  Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, recently sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: Conservative site RedState fired much of its staff, letting go of Trump critics and those whose click rate was below contract  —  Salem Media, owner of the influential conservative outlet RedState, froze the site on Friday and dismissed many of its writers.
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Reporters covering Trump's White House describe an intense, corrosive atmosphere, as they face insults, personal attacks, and even death threats  —  On a chilly and gray Monday in D.C. a few weeks ago, President Trump was sitting on the South Lawn among a group of children during …
New York Times:
What The New York Times got right and wrong about AIDS and gay issues in the 1980s and 1990s, through the eyes of six LGBTQ staffers  —  The New York Times had a spotty record of covering the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s — and gay culture in general.  Times staffers reflect on the paper's past …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Sources say Milo Yiannopoulos laid off the staff of Milo Entertainment this month after losing the Mercers' backing last year and the death of Matthew Mellon  —  Running out of money and down on his luck, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos laid off the small staff of Milo Entertainment Inc. earlier …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter confirms it is now pushing news links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping tweets mentioning the link underneath it  —  Twitter is now pushing links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping the tweets mentioning the link underneath it.
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Communications lost 122K subscribers in Q1 vs 40K expected; shares were down as much as 16% during the day, the largest decline since 2009 bankruptcy  —  Charter Communications reports worsening cable TV subscribers losses, triggering selloff  —  The pace of pay-TV cord-cutting is quickening …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
How Sarah Huckabee Sanders became White House press secretary and why her unique approach to the job has endeared her to Trump  —  How a bright, competent and likable young operative became the face of the most duplicitous press operation in White House history.
 
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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

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Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns
 
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