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Jack Dorsey, responding to Maggie Haberman's criticisms of Twitter, vows to work on identifying credibility and improving conversations' organization, context — The CEO of Twitter has admitted the platform is no longer a place where nuanced or thoughtful discussion can take place …
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Facebook could recognize Holocaust denialism as hate speech and ban it on those grounds, but trying to censor every falsehood should be noted as a bad idea — To follow Mark Zuckerberg's utterances is to constantly cringe. — Last week was no different.
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Facebook falling into false equivalence trap; hosting conservative media means being implicated in conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, or worse — Yes, the social media network is huge. But by spreading news from conservative sites, Facebook runs the risk of being dragged down with them.
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Amid rumors of cuts coming to the New York Daily News, Editor-in-Chief Jim Rich issues ominous tweet seemingly alluding to layoffs coming today — If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.
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Sources: feds think National Enquirer owner AMI may have acted more as a political supporter than a news org, raising 1st Amendment, campaign finance questions — Federal authorities examining the work President Trump's former lawyer did to squelch embarrassing stories before the 2016 election …
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A look at how alt-right troll Mike Cernovich uses Twitter to target journalists, typically by implicating them in sex crimes against minors — He just took down director James Gunn. Now he's using a trollish rumor about a sex tape to go after journalists. — 106 -


Russian lawmakers propose bill requiring sites with 100K+ daily visitors to take down inaccurate posts or comments within a day or face fines up to about $800K — MOSCOW — Russia, which American intelligence agencies said spread its fair share of misinformation during the 2016 United States election …
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BBC Studios' Chief Creative Officer Mark Linsey is switching roles, taking over as head of content partnerships, with a new director of content to be recruited — BBC Studios is searching for a new content chief after the British public broadcaster's production unit handed Chief Creative Officer Mark Linsey a new role.


It is time for newsrooms to cover technology extensively, across desks, acting as watchdogs rather than cheerleaders — A lowly tech employee was trying to do some simple task online and found out it was really hard. Inspired by that difficulty, he—and it was almost always a he …
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Buzzfeed's standalone news site buzzfeednews.com only includes programmatic ads at launch although native ads still drive a majority of BuzzFeed's revenue — BuzzFeed has been on a mission to diversify away from direct-sold advertising. And nowhere is that more evident than on its new BuzzFeed News site.


Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies of pancreatic cancer at 57 — Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city's vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died.
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