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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The New York Times says reporter Ali Watkins, whose email and phone records were seized by the US government, will be transferred to a new beat in New York — Ali Watkins, the New York Times reporter whose email and phone records were secretly seized by the Trump administration …
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook's political ads disclosure algorithm blocks ads for lawn-mowing, waxing salons, Walmart, and more that use the words “bush” and “Clinton” — Under rules for the new archive that strives for transparency in politics, all sorts of organizations with names linked …
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Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg:
Barnes & Noble fires CEO Demos Parneros for allegedly violating policies, says the action was unrelated to financial reporting — - Book and gift seller declines to say why he'd been terminated — High-level executives at a slew of companies have been ousted
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Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Some high school newspapers find themselves censored by administrators for writing about school shootings, sexuality, and the reasons for a teacher's dismissal — High school educators across the country have been clamping down on students who publish articles on protests, sexuality and other hot-button issues.
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Marcy Wheeler / emptywheel:
Marcy Wheeler, author of natsec-focused emptywheel blog, says she went to FBI in 2017 about a source she thinks is lying and had role in Russian election attack — I'd like to put a human face — my own — to the risk posed by GOP gamesmanship on the Mueller investigation.
Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Sources say Google's delay in joining a consortium of ad tech companies has complicated its members' GDPR compliance efforts — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google's delayed entry into a consortium of advertising technology companies has spoiled the members' push to comply with a new European privacy law …
Parker Higgins / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Freedom of the Press Foundation releases open source framework Track The News to help create Twitter bots that can track news subjects across sites — Freedom of the Press Foundation is releasing a free software Python program called Track The News, which for several months we've used …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Some US news sites that continue to block European users prefer to see how GDPR is enforced and may want to wait for developments in US privacy regulations — Major U.S. news sites including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune are still blocking European visitors more than a month …
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo:
On Tuesday, Wikipedia Italy set all of its pages to redirect to a statement protesting a July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law — Last month, members of European Parliament voted to move forward with a sweeping overhaul of the European Union's copyright laws that critics …
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BBC, DW.COM, The Local, Plagiarism Today and Personanondata
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
In trial against startup Six4Three, Facebook argues it's a publisher with the free speech right to take away data access but also claims Section 230 protection — In its defense against a former app startup, Facebook is contradicting its long-held claim to be simply a neutral platform
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources say Verizon spent about $1.2B on the failed go90, including the purchase of OnCue and Vessel, in an effort without clear market research — As far as launch parties go, Verizon's September 2015 event for Go90 had it all: a Kanye West concert, a live performance of Funny or Die's …
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Fortune
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
WaPo's open shop union, lacking leverage, encourages members to accept insulting terms of new two-year contract, like $15/week raises, cuts in overtime payments — If you can't work up any outrage at being ripped off by the richest man in America, how do you ever expect to win anything?
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