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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Jared Kushner says that the Trump administration is trying to establish facts around Khashoggi's death, while saying US must work with allies like Saudi Arabia — (CNN)Jared Kushner said Monday he'd advised Mohammed bin Salman to be fully transparent in his investigation of a Saudi journalist's death.
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says European Union's copyright legislation, Article 13, threatens creators' livelihoods if implemented as proposed — ‘Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs’ — The European Union's contentious copyright directive became a major talking point …
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Crain's Chicago Business:
Jim Kirk, former editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times, to return to Crain's Chicago Business as publisher and executive editor — Chicago media veteran Jim Kirk returns to Crain's Chicago Business to lead business operations as well as the newsroom. — Jim Kirk, a veteran …
The Membership Puzzle Project:
The Membership Puzzle Project launches a $700K fund for projects around the world experimenting with membership-based business models for news — Last year when the Membership Puzzle Project started studying news sites that were working with their supporters for revenue and to benefit their journalism, we heard two themes.
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Nieman Lab, @emgollie, @jayrosen_nyu and @membershippzzle
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
A look at former BBC News director James Harding's Tortoise Media, a member-funded news organization targeting a younger audience that's set to launch next year — James Harding has said his move into “slow news” with new venture Tortoise Media was the result of a “lesson learned” …
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The Guardian, @broderick, @jimwaterson, @emilybell and Kickstarter
CNN:
Twitter says it has removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with InfoWars, some for helping InfoWars and Alex Jones circumvent September ban — New York (CNN Business)Twitter on Monday removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with the fringe right-wing media organization InfoWars, a company spokesperson told CNN.
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The Associated Press deleted a tweet Sunday evening which called a large caravan of migrants from Central America a ragged “army” — “Some of the members of this 'army' are quite literally malnourished babies," says BuzzFeed's David Mack — The Associated Press deleted …
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Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Study: from the end of 2014 to the middle of 2018, 491 IRA-linked accounts sent 12K+ tweets about the NFL or anthem; 87% of partisan tweets leaned conservative — Russia-linked Twitter accounts sent more than 12,000 tweets about the NFL or the anthem in their alleged efforts to sow discord
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Awful Announcing, @bachscore and @bomani_jones
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix says it's going to raise $2B through debt securities, the sixth time in less than four years it's raising $1B+ through bonds — Netflix is again going to debt markets to fund its enormous appetite for content, announcing plans Monday to raise $2 billion in financing through debt securities.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Report: warrantless electronic device searches at the US border have tripled in three years; journalists say border searches impact ability to protect sources — Secondary screenings of journalists crossing U.S. borders risk undermining press freedom as Custom and Border Protection agents search devices …
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ACLU, @superanne, News & Advocacy, @aaschapiro and @robertmmahoney
Jordan Green / HuffPost:
How Big League Politics, owned by political operative Reilly O'Neal, fueled tensions over an NC Confederate statue and fed a Charlottesville conspiracy theory — Patrick Howley's Big League Politics is for people who find Breitbart too reasonable. And it's just getting started.
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@elimeye, @jordangreentcb and @eric_ginsburg
New York Times:
Detecting fake news using AI will require a number of major advances far beyond today's AI, which just flags word patterns and operates at a keyword level — At least not for decades to come. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. — Dr. Marcus is a professor of psychology and neural science.
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