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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
At a rally in Montana, Trump praised Greg Gianforte for assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs during Gianforte's campaign for Congress in 2017 — President's comments at Montana rally in praise of violence against US journalist come amid international outcry over Khashoggi — Play Video
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BuzzFeed News:
Tim Cook calls for a retraction of Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story: “There is no truth in their story about Apple. They need to do the right thing” — “I feel they should retract their story. There is no truth in their story about Apple. They need to do that right thing."
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces partnership with Eventbrite to sell concert tickets on artists' video channels in US, says it now covers more than 70% of US ticketing market — YouTube is extending its ticketing initiative, already live with Ticketmaster, with the new addition of Eventbrite.
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
As Facebook promotes its “war room” and efforts to fight interference, a study of disinformation on WhatsApp during Brazil's election shows more could be done — Corporation shows off room of engineers, data scientists and other experts but offers reporters few new specifics
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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
SiriusXM partners with Amazon to offer trial 3-month subscriptions to Echo Dots buyers and Echo Dot speakers to people who become subscribers — (Reuters) - Satellite radio company Sirius XM Holdings Inc is teaming up with Amazon.com in its push into listeners' homes to move beyond its stronghold inside vehicles.
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NBC News:
Source: Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts for violating spam rules; the accounts had posted pro-Saudi Arabia tweets about the disappearance of Khashoggi — Twitter became aware of some of the bots on Thursday when NBC News presented the company with evidence of coordinated activity.
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Erik Wemple / @erikwemple:
After US treasury secretary pulled out of conference in Saudi Arabia, Fox Business Network follows by announcing it will cancel sponsorship and participation
After US treasury secretary pulled out of conference in Saudi Arabia, Fox Business Network follows by announcing it will cancel sponsorship and participation
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Turner to shut down digital studio division Super Deluxe, cites duplication with other units of WarnerMedia — AT&T's pruning of WarnerMedia continues: Turner announced that it is killing off Super Deluxe, its digital studio division. — “Turner is proud of the unique brand Super Deluxe …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Vice's London office had a team working on material promoting Saudi Arabia in partnership with Saudi publishing group SRMG; deal is now under review — PR agency Freud's, the Independent, Vice and Tony Blair Institute for Global Change among those with links
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Sheelah Kolhatkar / New Yorker:
How Sinclair's focus on small markets led to it becoming a conservative media empire, with more stations in swing states than any other company — The company has achieved formidable reach by focussing on small markets where its TV stations can have a big influence.
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Charlie Amter / Variety:
SoundCloud says DJs will be able to mix all songs from its catalogue starting in 2019 as it partners with Serato, Virtual DJ, and others — SoundCloud is on a roll. Hot on the heels of an announcement earlier this month allowing all users of the open audio platform to tap …
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Variety:
CBS names Showtime CEO David Nevins as chief creative officer for all of CBS, in charge of programming, marketing, and research — David Nevins has been named chief creative officer of CBS Corporation effective immediately, the company announced Thursday. — The announcement …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
The Saturday Evening Post puts its archive online for the first time, access costs $15 per year and includes a subscription to the print magazine — The Saturday Evening Post for the first time in its nearly 200- year existence has its storied history available digitally.