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Lani Seelinger / Bustle:
Trump's criticism of media is hardly news, but calling one of his own staff a phony nonexistent source after the staffer briefed about 300 people is a new move — President Trump's ongoing feud with the media is hardly news, but over the weekend it turned out that there were still new ways …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
If Silicon Valley billionaires like Elon Musk really want to improve trust in the news media, they should help reinvent the economics of local news outlets — Entrepreneur Elon Musk thinks journalism needs fixing, and he's got just the answer. — Enraged last week by negative media coverage of Tesla …
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David Meyer / Fortune:
Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent — Europe's sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles.
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
With the arrival of GDPR, ad platform vendors like DoubleClick warn publishers about steep EU ad volumes declines, at least for the short term
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Chairwoman of European Data Protection Board criticizes blackout of EU visitors by some US media outlets: “Everyone has had plenty of time to prepare”
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Media Matters for America:
Review of 487 Hannity segments show 256 included criticism of media coverage of Mueller investigation, 191 suggest no collusion between Trump camp and Russia — I reviewed all 487 of Sean Hannity's segments about the first year of Robert Mueller's investigation. Here's what I found.
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Victoria Smith Ekstrand / Raleigh News & Observer:
As we increasingly rely on private platforms for public debates, the Trump-Twitter blocking case and NFL's standing rule signal tough times for First Amendment — On the same day that a federal district court in New York ruled that the president cannot block Twitter users from his account …
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Nicholas Thompson / Wired:
Q&A with members of Facebook's team to fight fake news on enforcing community standards, financial motivations of false news posts, and reduction of clickbait — On Monday, I sat down with nine members of the team at Facebook fighting fake news: Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia …
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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / Nieman Lab:
Like climate change deniers, some pundits are doubling down on media theories that are contradicted by evidence-based research, which needs more consideration — “If we let media change deniers drive the conversation, the result will be dumber journalism, less-informed public debate …
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
A look at ESPN's troubles: too much “divisive” opinionated commentary, soaring broadcast rights, cord-cutting, and an at times rocky relationship with Disney — Arguments over tweets, tension with owner Disney increased anxiety over the network's future in era of cord-cutting
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Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Studios try packaging their media units for TV, film, and shortform video together when offering deals to talent in order to compete with Netflix — With deep-pocketed Netflix poaching hitmakers Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy with nine-figure paydays, rivals are “going bats— crazy” …
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Reuters:
In final ruling, Egypt's court orders regulators to block YouTube for a month over 2012 “Innocence of Muslims” video that allegedly denigrated Prophet Mohammad — CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's top administrative court ruled on Saturday that regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube …
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Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Q&A with Tow Center director Emily Bell on Facebook algorithms as dictatorial law, the importance of transparency, and keeping the site “at arm's length” — We talked to Emily Bell, professor in digital journalism at Columbia University and the founding director of the Tow Center …
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Krishn Kaushik / The Indian Express:
Videos posted by Cobrapost claim big media outlets in India were willing to promote “Hindutva” politics via paid-for news; media orgs call the sting misleading — India Today, Times Group, HT, Paytm among targeted. The Sunday Express sent an email to 25 of the media groups named in the sting …
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