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Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store — One day after his ban from Twitter, Alex Jones and Infowars have been kicked off yet another platform: Apple's popular App Store. As of Friday evening, searches on the App Store for Infowars and Infowars app return no results.
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New York Times:
Study of videos on fatal stabbing in Germany found a network of ~650 conspiracy or far-right videos; YouTube consistently led news users toward extremist videos — CHEMNITZ, Germany — The day after far-right demonstrators took over the streets here, Sören Uhle, a city official …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Apple is in talks with the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal to join Texture, a magazine subscription app it bought in March — Last March, Apple bought Texture, a digital magazine service. Now it wants the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to join up.
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Jacob Silverman / The Baffler:
How Campbell Brown seeks to repair the relationship between Facebook and publishers while undermining the news institutions she claims to support — THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FACEBOOK and news publishers is a bizarre charade, peopled by unreliable characters, dotted with contradictions, suffused with dependency and resentment.
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New York Times:
Profile of Alex Jones, whose Infowars serves as both a conspiracy-focused media outlet and an online store for selling products that purport to improve health — AUSTIN — More than ever before in his two-decade career built on baseless conspiracy theories, angry nativist rants and end …
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Shorenstein Center and Lenfest Institute release report on local news solutions: subscription bundling, a news startup database, expanding revenue sources, more — A crisis and/or a crossroads: That's one of the many takeaways from a gathering of several dozen leaders from news organizations …
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Lenfest Institute …, @newsbyschmidt, Shorenstein Center, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
By publishing the anonymous op-ed, NYT changes its position in democracy, forfeits its job of holding power to account, and becomes complicit in own corruption — Let's get the obvious points out of the way first: the anonymous Op-Ed published by the Times on Wednesday was a ploy by someone …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
NYT to publish ~100 poll results in key congressional battleground races in real time through November 4 to give readers a sense of polling process — In a first, the Upshot and Siena College will publish polling results in real time. — Over the next two months, The New York Times will talk to more voters than ever before.
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Jared Schroeder / Columbia Journalism Review:
As Trump threatens new regulations for Google, Facebook, and Twitter, experts say legal precedents show algorithms may be protected under the First Amendment — President Trump indicated last week that the White House is looking into regulating Google, Facebook, and Twitter because they are …
Polina Devitt / Reuters:
Google removed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's YouTube ad inviting Russians to join protests after authorities complained it violated election law — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Google removed a YouTube advert by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after authorities complained …
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Robin Pomeroy / Reuters:
Alfonso Cuaron's film “Roma” won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, bringing Netflix its first major festival victory — VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron's “Roma” won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday …
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Marina Koren / The Atlantic:
Though BuzzFeed's publication of an email from Elon Musk marked “off the record” meets journalistic standards, the term can be opaque to news consumers — The entrepreneur's reaction to recent media coverage illustrates a common—and dangerous—misconception of reporting practices.
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