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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Washington Post fact-checks Trump's USA Today opinion piece on Medicare-For-All, finds most sentences contain a “misleading statement or falsehood” — President Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today on Oct. 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans …
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USA Today, Washington Post, The Hill, DCReport.org, Slate, The Week, CommonWealth Magazine, Splinter, The Daily Caller, CNN, New York Times, NPR, Common Dreams, The Guardian, Mediaite, Contemptor, Media Matters for America, Mashable, CNBC and USA TODAY
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Social media accounts of major news organizations continue to broadcast Trump's falsehoods without clearly informing readers that they are misleading — At a rally on Wednesday night, President Trump accused Hillary Clinton of conspiring with Russia to try to swing the 2016 election.
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@sjgrunewald, @reedfrich, Splinter, @christineemba, @wm_bbc, @clairecloutier, @tom_mallory, @keithboykin, @espiegler, @jayrosen_nyu, @brianbeutler, @dangillmor and NBC News
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
USA Today editorial page editor Bill Sternberg says Trump's healthcare op-ed was fact-checked and Trump was given wide leeway to express his opinion
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USA Today, @kylegriffin1, AOL, Vox, New York Times, Splinter, @bsternbe, @albertocairo, @poniewozik, @jeffyoung, @acosta, USA Today, @jayrosen_nyu, The Hill, The Hill, Boing Boing, Observer, NBC News and Snopes.com
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Johnston Press, which owns almost 200 regional newspapers and has spent 18 months trying to refinance its £220M debt, has put itself up for sale — Struggling publisher seeks offers after lengthy refinancing talks with bondholders — Johnston Press, which has titles include the i newspaper …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was working on launching a nonprofit, pro-democracy advocacy organization when he disappeared — Khashoggi, who may have been murdered and cut into pieces in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, incorporated Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) in January.
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Washington Post, Slate, @asadabukhalil, Splinter, The Daily Caller, The Week, Observer and New York Post
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
After Khashoggi's disappearance, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong and NYT have withdrawn from Saudi Arabia's investment conference; others are weighing issue — The headline on a recent story in The Post confirms the enormity of the ongoing international crisis for Saudi Arabia …
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BuzzFeed, CNN, @andrewrsorkin, The Daily Beast, @grynbaum, @dabeard, @justinhendrix, @hadas_gold, Mediaite, @hisham_melhem, MintPress News and NPR
Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Genius partners with Apple Music to show lyrics and annotations for thousands of selected songs and makes Apple Music the official music player for Genius — Music encyclopedia and lyrics database Genius has announced a partnership with Apple Music, pairing the website's lyrics with songs.
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Genius, Fast Company, Variety, KnowTechie, RAIN News and @ws, more at Techmeme »
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Civil Media has had difficulty raising money with a weak demand for its blockchain tokens and lack of major news partners — Startup is falling short of its funding goal, as major news organizations pass on partnerships and one of its co-founders criticizes company
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Civil, Columbia Journalism Review, @jeffjarvis, @kwerb, @ahcastor, @dicktofel, @coindesk, @benmullin, @jbenton and CNN
Washington Post:
Facebook says it is removing over 800 US publishers and accounts, some with 100,000+ followers, for spamming users with political content — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Thursday it has purged more than 800 U.S publishers and accounts for flooding users with politically-oriented content …
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New York Times, VentureBeat, Facebook, The Hill, Business Insider, @lizzadwoskin, @tonyromm and @brianstelter, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
Walmart is creating a joint venture with New York-based “interactive storytelling” startup Eko; sources say the investment with Eko is worth $250M — Walmart is going Hollywood. — The world's largest retailer, in a constant battle with its rival Amazon …
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TechCrunch, The Wrap, MediaPost, @edmundlee and @opherv, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Manhattan prosecutors charge IBT and Christian Media with defrauding lenders of ~$10M to keep Newsweek afloat — Prosecutors say $10 million scheme provided funds to help keep company afloat — Newsweek's former parent company has been charged by Manhattan prosecutors with carrying …
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@etienneuzac, New York Times, PR Newswire, @alexkotch, @spytalker, @maxwelltani, The Wrap, The Hill, Newsweek, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
New York Magazine:
New York Mag relaunches Intelligencer, bringing together the Daily Intelligencer and Select All brands with expanded coverage and 2038, a limited-run podcast — Welcome to the new Intelligencer. We're adding a lot of things to the site today, and we'll get to those in a minute …
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MediaPost, @joshglancy and Intelligencer
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Study: GDPR reduced the number of ad trackers used on EU visitors; Google may have slightly increased its European marketshare as smaller ad entities lose reach — An analysis of the impact of Europe's new data protection framework, GDPR, on the adtech industry suggests the regulation …
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@jason_kint, @deaneckles and Cliqz, more at Techmeme »
Politico:
Fox stops airing Trump rallies in full as they increase in frequency and ratings drop; a White House official said officials would “look into” this trend — In a crucial period with the midterms less than a month away, some in the White House are worried that the president is losing a megaphone to his base.
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@joycewhitevance, @kimmasters, Contemptor, The Week, Mediaite and Splinter
Irish Examiner:
FOIA figures show that since the revelation of a 9.3% median gender pay gap at the BBC, 316 BBC staff have been given raises and the pay gap has fallen to 7.6% — More than 300 BBC staff - including some men - have received a salary boost after questioning their pay in the last 14 months, according to new figures.
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