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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users — Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race …
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@samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @hjarche, The Verge, Boing Boing, @kevinroose, @ashleyfeinberg, @anandwrites, @christophrlucas, @coreypein, Gizmodo, Memex 1.1 and CBS Pittsburgh, more at Techmeme »
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Forbes cuts ties with sports business columnist and deletes post arguing WNBA players should earn higher salaries after the NBA voiced concerns to editors — Forbes magazine cut ties with a contributing columnist and sports economics professor last week after a dispute over his piece about WNBA player salaries.
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@memcnally, @dhellingsports and @esoterictalia
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Tow-Knight Center announces project to create a trust indicator for news outlets that aggregates the corpus of fact-checks, endorsements, public trust, and more — Any attempt to declare which news sources are good and which are bad is a task freighted with danger.
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@jeffjarvis, @jbenton, @zielina, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
BuzzFeed News:
Twitter apologizes after “Kill all Jews” appeared as a trending topic in many New Yorkers' local trending sections following the vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue — On Friday morning, the Twitter trending topic “Kill all Jews” appeared in many New Yorkers' local trending sections.
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@robmanuel, @profcarroll, @bostonjoan, @jordanuhl, The Next Web, Motherboard, The Wrap and Boing Boing
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon will stop emailing popular Washington Post articles to customers as of November 5, possibly to avoid accusations of partisanship — - Online retailer distances itself from Bezos-owned newspaper — Trump has said news organization is Amazon's ‘chief lobbyist’
Todd Spangler / Variety:
EDO, a startup that uses consumer behavioral data from search engines and shopping sites to measure effectiveness of TV ads, raises $12M in Series A funding — EDO, co-founded by actor and entrepreneur Edward Norton, has banked $12 million in Series A funding to fuel its buildout …
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Forbes, TechCrunch, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat and Deadline
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How audience engagement editors, once called social media managers, are shifting to revenue-generating work and less toward just driving traffic — Audience development pros have always been crucial to how publishers reach new readers. But increasingly, they're all about the revenue …
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@jenniferbrandel, @nisalahe, @digiday, @fizapirani and @localnewsini, Thanks:@steverubel
Pamela Druckerman / New York Times:
A look at the breakdown of media independence in Hungary where the prime minister and his allies control 500+ titles and critical outlets are denied credentials — Viktor Orban didn't like what the press was reporting, so he took it over. — BUDAPEST — If you're wondering what attacks …
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@akyolinenglish and @nytimes
Media Matters for America:
Study: The New York Times and Washington Post have run 115 total news stories on the migrant caravan in the last three weeks, front page 9 of last 10 days — Leading papers produced 115 news stories referencing the caravan, put 25 on A1 — President Donald Trump has taken Fox News' advice …
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@mattgertz, @benwikler, @ericboehlert, @mannyvu89, @hrcpersists, @jbenton, The Daily Beast and Hollywood Reporter
Bloomberg:
Sources: McClatchy, AIM Media, and Donerail Group have submitted bids for Tribune Publishing — By By Nabila Ahmed , By Kiel Porter , and By Gerry Smith — Aim Media is also said to have submitted offer for publisher — Potential buyers have been circling newspaper chain for months
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@raju, Cedarville News, Axios, WhatsOnThorold and Chicago Business
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Pew study: of four UK newspapers, The Guardian is most trusted among people 18-29; 40% never listen to radio news, and 19% say they never watch TV news — Survey suggests Britons under 30 seek out reliable news websites associated with traditional outlets — The Guardian is the most …
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@rasmus_kleis, @bbcalagiah and @aaronbastani
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
AT&T calls Dish dropping HBO a “tactical decision,” accuses Dish of collaborating with DOJ to block the Time Warner merger as DOJ prepares for December appeal — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc's WarnerMedia has accused the U.S. Department of Justice of “collaborating” …
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@matthewkeyslive, FierceVideo, Hollywood Reporter, Techdirt, Ars Technica, Wired, Engadget and Slate
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Jason Schreier / Kotaku:
UK-based Trusted Reviews apologizes for sharing Red Dead Redemption 2 info from a corporate document and donates £1M+ to charity, likely under legal threat — The British website TrustedReviews today pulled an article, apologized to publisher Take-Two Games, and said it was donating 1 million pounds …
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@simoncarless, @kezamacdonald, @crecenteb, @tha_rami, @kyleorl, Trusted Reviews, Kotaku, RockstarINTEL, ScreenRant and Variety
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