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6:20 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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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
Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Interview with Chase Cook, the Capital Gazette reporter who volunteered to cover the trial of the suspected killer of five of Cook's colleagues  —  On Thursday, Chase Cook sat down at a coffee shop in Annapolis, Maryland, near the temporary new home of the Capital Gazette newspaper group, where he's worked as a reporter since 2014.
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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 …
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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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Business Insider columnist Daniella Greenbaum resigns over removal of her post that defended Scarlett Johansson playing the role of a transgender man
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
The Verge:
DOJ's appeal against AT&T-Time Warner merger probably won't succeed but the appeal itself could have a chilling effect on vertical merger bids in the short term  —  It probably won't succeed, but it could still put companies on notice  —  Yesterday, the Department of Justice appealed …
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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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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Stephanie Sugars / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Non-white reporters covering US protests say they face additional risks of pepper spray, arrests, and strip searches because police often see them as protesters