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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's narrative of social media bias echoes his attempts to discredit mainstream media and could lead to the development of right-wing social media sites — President Trump, using more anecdote than evidence, is doing unto Google, Facebook and Twitter what he helped do to mainstream media …
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BuzzFeed News:
Trump tweets video claiming Google didn't promote his State of the Union address on its homepage; Google says it did, confirmed by screenshot posted on Reddit — “Google promoted president Obama's State of the Union on its homepage. When President Trump took office, Google stopped," a video shared by Trump falsely claimed.
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New York Times:
Sources and recordings indicate that Trump and Cohen had plans to buy up all the dirt that National Enquirer and AMI had on Trump, dating back to the eighties — Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep …
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New York Post, The Wrap, New Republic, @maggienyt, @waldojaquith, @brucebartlett, Splinter, @rgoodlaw, Business Insider France, Mediaite and Fortune
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Twitter will exempt news organizations that meet certain requirements from its political and issue advertising policy, leaving their ad buys out of its archive — Twitter says news organizations can apply to be exempt from its political and issue advertising policy as a part of a larger update …
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Twitter says some organizations that purchase ads related to political issues, like abortion or immigration, will need to disclose more info about themselves — Twitter said Thursday that it would begin requiring some organizations that purchase political ads on topics such as abortion …
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
Google News doesn't tinker with results for political reasons, but mainstream media's resources and standards are higher than those of conservative publications — Mainstream media organizations are better-resourced and do far more reporting than smaller, explicitly politicized outlets.
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@davidmarkrubin, The Next Web, Wired, @orrchris, Fox News, The Week, HuffPost and Slate
Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
A California man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Boston Globe staffers; prosecutors say he called employees the “enemy of the people” — BOSTON (AP) — A California man upset about The Boston Globe's coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump's attacks …
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@tom_winter, Fast Company, CNNMoney, NBC News and Mediaite
David Turner / Real Life:
The business model for music has shifted from selling albums to engaging with fans to justify monthly subscriptions — Eight years ago, before his alt-right pivot, Kanye West came up with the concept of GOOD Fridays. The rapper was working on his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy …
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Joe Mayes / Bloomberg:
Amazon's UK broadcast of US Open receives 1-star rating from 80% of customers who cite lack of replays, poor picture quality, and limited choice of courts — - Web reviews criticize lack of replay, poor picture quality — U.S. Open part of Amazon push into live sports broadcasting
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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Writer and columnist Salena Zito, who profiled left-to-right Trump voters in 2016, repeatedly misrepresented GOP officials and Republican voters as swing voters — Is the populist whisperer of Trump Country full of crap? — You might not know who Salena Zito is off the top of your head …
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@jesseltaylor, Contemptor and @urbanachievr
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Sources: Donerail Group has the financing to purchase Tronc in a possible $640M-$700M deal; if completed, Donerail would sell off papers to individual buyers — Rupert Murdoch owning the New York Daily News? A McCormick controlling the Chicago Tribune again?
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Poynter, Bloomberg, American Press Institute, Ad Age, @mattdpearce, @chrismegerian, @jbenton, @dangillmor, @jbenton, @jbenton and @jbenton
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Vox Media reorganizes it ad sales staff into an enterprise team for big accounts and a growth team for new business — Digital media company will have one unit focused on big accounts and industry categories, and another on new business — Vox Media is reorganizing its sales force into an …
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