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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
White House cancels CNN interview with National Security Adviser John Bolton after interaction between Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta at UK press conference — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that the White House decided to cancel an interview between CNN …
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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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Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Following the latest Mueller indictments, Twitter bans DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 accounts, says it is reviewing company policies and expects to make updates soon — The US' indictment of Russian officers over the DNC hacks is having an effect... at least, on Twitter.
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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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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
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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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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Michelle Ferrier / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside the Media Deserts Project, which maps daily media in its various formats and regulations affecting local news by zip code — Image via Media Deserts Project. — The New York Times earlier this year profiled a resident of rural Athens County, Ohio.
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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 …
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Adrianne Jeffries / New York Times:
Study of 23,005 YouTube video comments about science and related topics: ~14% of comments for female-hosted videos were critical vs. ~6% for male-hosted videos — After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”
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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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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 …
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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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