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2:10 PM ET, July 14, 2018

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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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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @rafat and Talking Biz News, Thanks:@steverubel
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @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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Nick Cohen / The New York Review of Books:
The BBC has failed to cover the legal and political scandals behind the Brexit Leave campaign, seeming to prefer to reflect the national mood and not the facts
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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Stephanie Sugars / Committee to Protect Journalists:
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