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7:00 PM ET, August 18, 2018

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Politico:
Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won't let that happen”  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday took to Twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating …
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Emily Schultheis / The Atlantic:
German broadcaster ZDF shows how to handle the far-right by asking actual policy questions that are equally or even more important to voters than immigration  —  A lesson from Germany  —  BERLIN—What happens when you do a prime-time interview with a far-right leader—but don't ask them anything about refugees?
Bloomberg:
Source: Amazon is working on a DVR that will record live TV, wirelessly connect to Fire TV boxes, and stream the video to smartphones  —  - Box would record live TV and stream that video to smartphones  — Device competes with offerings from TiVo, Dish's Slingbox
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Researchers find fewer third-party cookies on 200+ EU news sites post-GDPR; sites load 27% fewer cookies for optimization and 14% fewer for ads  —  Some third-party cookies were still present, of course.  But there was a decrease in third-party content loaded from social media platforms and from content recommendation widgets.
Discussion: Nieman Lab
Christopher Barca / Queens Chronicle:
Ocasio-Cortez campaign says she was “mobbed” by reporters at a Bronx community meeting, leading to a press ban for two listening tour stops  —  Media was barred after reporters ‘mobbed’ her at an earlier event  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday that stops on her …
The Guardian:
Malaysia has repealed its “fake news” law; deputy minister says police will instead be empowered to deal with the phenomenon  —  Critics say legislation was deployed during Najib Razak's time in office to silence criticism  —  Malaysia has repealed its “fake news” law …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Viacom lays off more than 30 Awesomeness employees following last month's acquisition; Awesomeness CEO Jordan Levin has left the company  —  As expected, Viacom has made a round of layoffs at Awesomeness, pink-slipping more than 30 employees of the digital-media company it acquired last month from NBCUniversal, Verizon and Hearst.
Ian Burrell / The Drum:
How The Sun climbed above the Mail Online's digital reach, registering 29.7M UK users in June vs. Mail Online's 28.3M, despite earlier paywall missteps  —  It is exactly five years since Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper stable made its audacious - and we can now say almost calamitous - move to put The Sun behind a digital paywall.
Jaclyn Reiss / The Boston Globe:
The US Senate passes a resolution by unanimous voice vote affirming the media “is not the enemy of the people” and condemning attacks on the free press  —  The US Senate on Thursday passed a resolution by unanimous consent affirming that the media “is not the enemy of the people.”
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump assails The Boston Globe for leading an effort to support a free press, says he wants “true freedom of the press” but “fake news” is trying to hurt people
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
comScore: pure play streaming services like Sling TV and DirecTV Now reach 5% of US Wi-Fi households, up 58% since last year  —  The number of U.S. households watching streaming TV services - those that deliver cable TV-like programming over the internet - has grown a remarkable 58% over last year, according to new data from comScore.
Discussion: The Verge
Rob Arcand / The Outline:
PEOPLE, a free to listeners, non-commercial audio publishing platform focused on musician collaboration and works-in-progress, to launch on August 18  —  PEOPLE, their new streaming platform that prioritizes collaboration and de-emphasizes the algorithm, launches this weekend.
 
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