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Twitter permanently suspends Infowars and Alex Jones' accounts, saying they violate “abusive behavior” rules, will suspend other accounts he registers or uses — “We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy …
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Michael Burke / The Hill:
White House slams the NYT for creating a “wild obsession with the identity” of the anonymous op-ed author; Sanders urges people to call NYT to ask who source is — The White House on Thursday slammed The New York Times for creating a “wild obsession with the identity” …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The NYT's decision to publish an anonymous op-ed was neither “gutless” as the president has said, nor a crucial public service, but it was newsworthy — Was the New York Times's decision to publish a mystery op-ed piece describing an organized resistance inside the Trump administration …
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, New York Times, @karaswisher, VICE News, @katierosman, @danielleiat, The Intercept, The Week, Vanity Fair, BloombergQuint, Fortune and Washingtonian
New York Times:
NYT takes the rare step of publishing an anonymous op-ed by a senior Trump administration official that says top officials are working to thwart Trump — I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
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Politico:
Anonymous NYT op-ed raises the question of whether NYT reporters should investigate the writer's identity and whether doing so would scare potential sources
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New York Times, Mediaite, CNBC and @dlboardman
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
The official behind the anonymous NYT op-ed on Trump contacted an editor via an intermediary, then NYT spoke with author; a “very small number” know identity
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@presssec, Mediaite, New York Times, Washington Post, The Week, Chicago Sun-Times, BloombergQuint, New York Magazine, @acosta, VICE News, CNN, The Daily Beast, 1A, @sarah_boxer and The Daily Caller
David Faber / CNBC:
Sources: CBS board has offered Les Moonves a ~$100M exit package in negotiation talks that would result in the appointment of COO Joe Ianniello as interim CEO — - The talks between Les Moonves and the CBS board have been going on for some time but have yet to reach a conclusion given continued back and forth about his exit package.
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Amy Kaufman / Los Angeles Times:
Twentieth Century Fox pulls scene from The Predator after actress Olivia Munn alerted studio executives it contained an actor who is a registered sex offender — Twentieth Century Fox was just days away from locking picture on “The Predator” when an urgent note came in: Delete the scene featuring Steven Wilder Striegel.
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Documents show a US government photographer edited official photos of Trump's inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following Trump's intervention — Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’
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The Hill, globalnews.ca, The Independent, Talking Points Memo, Newsweek, The Week, VICE News, Slate, Vanity Fair, Gizmodo and Mediaite
Aaron Tilley / The Information:
Apple has hired Liz Schimel, a former president of Condé Nast China, whose LinkedIn page lists a July start date and her Apple role as “head of news business” — Apple is beefing up the management of its Apple News product, with the recent hiring of veteran media executive Liz Schimel.
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David Nather / Axios:
Survey of 2,698 US adults shows 66% of Democrats think search engine results are unbiased while only 22% of Republicans think the same — Two-thirds of Republicans believe the results of internet searches are skewed to the left — a shift that's driving significant public distrust in search engines …
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The Hill, more at Techmeme »
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
In offering artists deals that give them ownership of recording rights, Spotify risks antagonizing the major labels upon which its catalog largely depends — For decades, the path to stardom in the music industry has usually gone through a major record company.
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The Next Web, @future_of_music and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
Eudora Wang / China Money Network:
iQiyi Sports, the sports arm of Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi, raises ~$124M Series A from China Sports Capital, a Sequoia China-backed fund — IQiyi Sports, the sports arm of Chinese streaming platform iQiyi Inc., has secured a RMB850 million (US$124 million) series A financing round.
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South China Morning Post and DealStreetAsia
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Revenue from The Guardian's content studio is up 66% YoY for the first half of 2018, with the average value of larger deals increasing 36% YoY to £100,000 — Last spring, the Guardian remodeled its content studio Labs to align more closely with the rest of the newsroom, in order to make its campaign output more efficient.
Washington Post:
Overview of the Senate hearing on foreign influence in social media, which heard testimony from Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey — Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey told lawmakers on Wednesday that they are better prepared to combat foreign interference on their platforms …
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New Yorker, The Verge, 1A, Washington Post, Wired, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Talking Biz News, @nxthompson and @tonyromm, more at Techmeme »
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
In House committee hearing, Dorsey said Twitter intends to share an abuse transparency report this year, agrees to have the company undergo a civil rights audit
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EU regulators greenlight Apple's December 2017 acquisition of Shazam — European regulators have given the green light to Apple's December 2017 acquisition of music and image recognition discovery firm Shazam. — Apple Music is the second largest music streaming service in Europe, after Spotify .
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New York Times, EU Press Room, CNBC, Gizmodo, Reuters and Engadget
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