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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook should quarantine Infowars and similar outlets instead of deleting their pages to avoid making people like Alex Jones into martyrs, prompting backlash — Quarantine instead, or it'll be ‘but her emails!’ 2.0 — Alex Jones' Infowars is a fake-news peddler.
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Journalists should ask Facebook deeper questions about Infowars, like how downranking false content and flagging by fact-checkers affect reach and advertising
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
At Facebook event touting its work to combat misinformation, company defends maintaining InfoWars page by saying fake news doesn't violate Community Standards
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Trump anointed Fox News as state TV with his favoritism of a Fox News reporter and baseless insults of NBC and CNN during a UK news conference — President Trump's penchant for diminishing the fourth estate didn't wither on British soil. “Fake news,” he riffed at various points during …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Billboard CEO John Amato was forced to resign after sexual harassment and other misconduct complaints by several employees against him personally — The CEO of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter was pushed out earlier this week after a private internal investigation raised concerns …
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Variety, @johndoe78359022, @justinjm1 and @maxwelltani
Aaron Hicklin / Out Magazine:
After intense criticism for accepting a role as a transgender man in the move Rub & Tug, Scarlett Johansson withdraws from the role — After drawing intense criticism for accepting a role in the movie Rub & Tug, by her Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders, Scarlett Johansson …
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Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
An overview of experiments with voice AI from The New York Times, the BBC, and the Evening Standard and how they could be monetized through Alexa — Voice assistants are still young and a bit awkward. Content experiences on them aren't always great and it seems that news organisations …
Thanks:@geninnovate
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
CNN is launching CNN Business this fall, consolidating CNN Money, CNN Tech, and CNN Media, will expand tech coverage from SF bureau, plans new streaming service — CNN is launching a new business website and expanding its technology coverage, part of a broader restructuring …
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@rafat and Talking Biz News, Thanks:@steverubel
Charles Lewis / The Conversation:
The pace of nonprofit media growth has picked up since 2010: Shorenstein Center study shows 6,568 foundations gave nonprofit media $1.8B between 2010 and 2015 — The man best known for founding the digital classified listing service Craigslist recently gave a New York City journalism school US$20 million.
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@janebsinger and @mcnisbet
Rob Price / INSIDER:
Many Facebook Groups with thousands of members openly share pirated movies, but Facebook says it does not remove the videos unless contacted by rights-holders — - Business Insider found numerous groups openly advertising illegal copies of the latest blockbuster films.
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Chloe Aiello / CNBC:
Policy heads from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter will testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 17 about social media content moderation practices — - Representatives from Facebook, Twitter and Google parent company Alphabet will testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing …
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Reuters, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
The Capital Gazette and the Baltimore Sun to receive help from volunteer journalists from across the country at least through the end of summer — By Allison Klein July 10 Email the author — Journalism is a competitive field. Getting the story first and right is gold.
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New Yorker, @charlesbethea and Susan Reimer
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Comcast to close EveryBlock, a hyperlocal news site relaunched by Comcast in 2014, and will instead point users to Nextdoor, which it has invested in — Chicago-based community website EveryBlock is shutting down, four years after Comcast resurrected it. — Comcast is pulling the plug …
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@dansinker and @jsucherman
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
FEMA's report criticizing its own initial response in Puerto Rico shows how wrong Trump was to label early reporting on issues as “fake news” — When Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico last fall, President Trump playfully lobbed rolls of paper towels to those taking shelter.
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Daily Kos, @davidbrucesmith and @craigawelch
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