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11:35 AM ET, August 20, 2018

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Ian Sherr / CNET:
Jack Dorsey tries to explain why Twitter ignored rules violations by Infowars for so long, says company waited for others to report violations before acting  —  Two weeks ago, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and others kicked the harassing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars site off their services.
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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 …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Charter Spectrum plans to launch a 24-hour local news channel for greater LA in November, specializing in “hyper-local” coverage of positive community issues  —  Local TV news has settled into a familiar routine: a pingpong of live shots with reporters standing near the scene of a crime …
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Facebook faces continuing calls for regulation of microtargeted ads in US and Europe after probes of Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica data use  —  Facebook has made a mint by enabling advertisers to identify and reach the very people most likely to react to their messages.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
New York Times international news editor Sewell Chan is joining the Los Angeles Times as deputy managing editor  —  Longtime New York Times editor Sewell Chan will be joining the Los Angeles Times as a deputy managing editor, the paper announced on Monday.  He will report the the paper's …
Mehreen Khan / Financial Times:
Source: EU is drafting regulations to impose fines on social media platforms if they do not remove material flagged as terrorist content within an hour  —  Brussels plans to force companies including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to identify and delete online terrorist propaganda and extremist violence or face the threat of fines.
Linda Kinstler / The Guardian:
Profile of TripAdvisor, which has become entangled in debates over free speech as it struggles to defend legitimate reviewers against litigious business owners  —  The world's biggest travel site has turned the industry upside down - but now it is struggling to deal with the same kinds …
Scott Nover / The Atlantic:
How the Sunday political talk show format has evolved during the Trump presidency, helping viewers digest the week's news and parse lies and spin  —  Millions of elite viewers still tune into the Sunday-morning talk shows, watching top Trump administration officials spin, spar, and set the agenda.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A look at Andrew Kaczynski's KFile team, now at CNN, which looks for damning comments in audio, video, and social media posts by politicians and appointees  —  Carl Higbie was a top Trump administration appointee until CNN's Andrew Kaczynski showed up bearing audiotapes.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The surge in digital misinformation has created new businesses, research disciplines, and newsroom beats focused on studying and combating internet propaganda  —  A surge of nefarious activity online has created new businesses, research disciplines and newsroom beats focused on studying and combating internet propaganda.
 
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Sonam Rai / Reuters:
Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, files for a $300M IPO on Nasdaq and says it had 32.1M MAUs in the last quarter
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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:
Mel, an independent men's magazine bankrolled by Unilever, may represent a new, if precarious, model for media as it grows, slowly but consistently
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