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Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:
A look at NJ's bill to use $5M to support local media: five universities as collaborators, a board to oversee grants, language emphasizing media independence — The dollar amount isn't huge, and it will barely put a dent in the crisis of local news. But it's also an official statement …
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@brianstelter, CNNMoney, @redsteeze, @heminator, Free Press, LegiScan, @freepress and The Daily Caller
Chris Johnston / BBC:
Telegraph Media Group reports a decline in revenue to £285.7M as profits drop from £27.1M in 2016 to £13.7M in 2017; company sets goal of 3M subs by end of year — Profits at the Telegraph Media Group halved last year as revenues from print advertising and circulation fell by 9%.
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The Drum, Financial Times, The Guardian and @chrismsutcliffe
Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:
A look at changes WhatsApp can make to curb misinformation after violence in India, including making messages private by default and forwarding only by consent — With over 200 million users in India, WhatsApp has a massive Fake News and misinformation problem.
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Gizmodo, pib.nic.in, @dikshamadhok, SiliconANGLE, @saliltripathi, @nixxin, @karunanundy, MediaNama, @yaso, @theromit, BuzzFeed, ThePrint, The Next Web, NDTV.com, Reuters and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
New Facebook rules show some details of new political ads about the US Supreme Court, but the money behind some groups buying ads remains opaque — Even before President Trump's new Supreme Court nominee is announced, a fight over the choice is raging on social media.
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@dabeard, @profgalloway, @jeremybmerrill, @wexler and @campaignlegal
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook's enforcement of political ad rules blocks ads for companies from waxing salons to Walmart, using words “bush” and “Clinton”, a common town name
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@issielapowsky, USA Today, @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @ericgeller, @cwarzel, The Daily Caller, @chafkin, @claireeboston, @robaeprice, The Hill and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »
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.
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Al Jazeera English, @baddestmamajama, @thomas_drake1, @puestoloco, @las4liberty, @wilson__valdez, @mollymckew, @dandrezner, @lolgop, @oknox, @bartongellman, @emptywheel, @kimzetter, @peterkofod, @dangillmor, @pwnallthethings, @matthewamiller, @rosenzweigp, @petersterne, @sarahkendzior and @lynneraughley
Taylor Blatchford / Poynter:
How Washington State University Vancouver research director Mike Caulfield plans to work with US students to create Wikipedia pages for 1,000 local news orgs — Americans are more overwhelmed than ever by the news landscape, but one researcher hopes a small step will help readers evaluate sources …
Maria Abi-Habib / New York Times:
Sri Lankan lawmakers held a news conference to try to discredit local New York Times journalists by accusing them of being paid by the current government — NEW DELHI — Sri Lankan lawmakers allied with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa have publicly denounced The New York Times in recent days …
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@meslackman, @nytimespr, Committee to Protect … and BloombergQuint
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
US press lacks the language to cover the left's different currents and dismisses its radical proposals while giving a hearing to outlandish ones on the right — The last few days have been seismic for the American left. Last Tuesday, the insurgent Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scored …
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Washington Post, Shadowproof, @jon_allsop, @seanmcelwee and @froomkin
Stephen Carlisle / Nova Southeastern University:
A VA district court ruling that commercial use of a photo found on the internet was fair use ignored key provisions of the Copyright Act and disregarded facts — On June 11, 2018, another head scratching decision came out of the Eastern District of Virginia, one that has the potential …
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PetaPixel, @thatgrlaudrey, @unite4copyright, @mediamixed, @azambelich, Newsweek, Engadget and Trademark and Copyright Law
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New California law requires all businesses, including newspapers, to clarify the terms of auto-renewal and make subscription cancellation possible online — Here's a script you're surely familiar with if you've ever tried to cancel a subscription to, well, anything:
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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The Register, BBC, Engadget, @notesfrompoland, Plagiarism Today, DW.COM and The Local, more at Techmeme »
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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@counternotions, @margarita, @jayrosen_nyu, The Hill and @jason_kint, more at Techmeme »
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