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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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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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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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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 …
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: as Verizon execs remain wary about sharing user data with Oath and ad growth fails to take off, Tim Armstrong weighs leaving as early as October — Media executive combined Yahoo and AOL but struggled to marry Verizon's wireless customer data with online advertising
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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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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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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is named new director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, succeeding David Levy, who is stepping down after 10 years — Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen has been appointed Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Alan Rusbridger …
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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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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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Aaron Gordon / Slate:
The Athletic has built its editorial staff by poaching local journalists, making dubious claims of disruption, and having stories readers can't find elsewhere — The Athletic's rapid recent launch into the stratosphere of buzzy publications is built on two big ideas.
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