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Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
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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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
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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@jayrosen_nyu, @alex_shephard and @newrepublic
Jim Rich / @therealjimrich:
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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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter:
New York Times:
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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Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
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 -
Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
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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Lincoln Pigman / New York Times:
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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James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review:
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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Max Willens / Digiday:
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.
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Despite being debunked 80+ times and having 45+ posts marked as false by Facebook, YourNewsWire still gains hundreds of thousands of engagements per month — InfoWars isn't the only misinforming page that's still allowed to publish on Facebook. — YourNewsWire is one of the most popular fake news publishers in the world.
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