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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:

Facebook pulls Trump campaign's anti-immigration ad saying it violates advertising policy against “sensational content,” though the video can be posted — Washington DC (CNN)Facebook has stopped the Trump campaign from running its racist anti-immigration commercial as an ad on the site.

Discussion: CNN, @slpng_giants, Gizmodo, The Daily Beast, @xeni, @raju, @mikeisaac, Variety, New York Post, The Guardian, The Week, Mediaite, Mashable and New Republic

New York Times:

NBC aired an anti-immigration ad, approved by Trump, which CNN had refused to broadcast because it was racist, before deciding to remove it — Major television networks and Facebook have taken the unusual step of rejecting an inflammatory ad by President Trump's political team that effectively closes …

Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:

Fox News Joins NBC in Pulling Trump-Backed Anti-Migrant Ad — CNN refused to run the commercial, saying it was racist — NBC faced backlash, including outrage from Hollywood notables — Fox News joined NBC in pulling a controversial TV commercial about the migrant caravan …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Splinter, Axios, VICE News US and @qjurecic, more at Techmeme »

Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC News pulls Trump's “migrant caravan” ad which aired during Sunday Night Football; NFL's media committee, chaired by Trump donor, could have vetoed the ad

Discussion: Awful Announcing, Ad Age, @dylanbyers, @marisaguthrie, The A.V. Club, @juddapatow, Engadget and Slate

Ashley Carman / The Verge:

Oath CEO Guru Gowrappan says the company will be rebranded as the Verizon Media Group, starting in 2019 — We roasted Verizon last year when it brought it merged its AOL and Yahoo purchases into a new group called Oath. Today, the company's CEO Guru Gowrappan announced that Oath is no more …

Discussion: Adweek, TechCrunch, Multichannel News, Verizon Fios & Custom TV, campaignlive.co.uk, @modestproposal1, CNBC, Telecompaper, BetaNews, The Drum, FierceVideo, @johnlegere and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Time Magazine's new owners name current Editor in Chief Edward Felsenthal as chief executive; Felsenthal to continue as editor — Felsenthal will continue as editor in chief of Time — Four days after Salesforce.com Inc. co-founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff closed …

Discussion: TIME, New York Post, WWD and MarketWatch

Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:

Digital media firm says LinkedIn has had a rise in hyperpartisan political content, with fake accounts and toxic memes; LinkedIn removes policy-violating posts — “Facebook banned me, they hate me. But that's all good — I started posting on LinkedIn and everybody is following me," said one Trump supporter.

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Moscow court ordered opposition magazine The New Times to pay $338K under “foreign agents” law, which may cause it to shutter, with additional fine for EIC — The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned an exorbitant fine imposed on the independent news outlet The New Times.

Discussion: France 24 and @willfitzgibbon

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

Study: abusive comments hurt the credibility of journalists and news organizations for other readers; no difference in abuse toward male and female reporters — Newsrooms: When you let your readers attack your reporters in the comments — U R SO BIAS YOU STUPID LIBTARD #FAKENEWS …

Jelani Cobb / Columbia Journalism Review:

79% of people working in the media industry are white, meaning the US press frequently misses big stories, like the rise of Trump — Five years ago, I came across an article in The New York Times about a spate of robberies in the Bronx. It was the kind of story that has been a staple …

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Study: Alex Jones' videos are receiving nearly as many views on Facebook as they did before Infowars' page was banned, with new pages like NewsWars catching on — Infowars is gone from Facebook after a high-profile showdown over the summer between Silicon Valley and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Discussion: @jason_a_w

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Journalists have not improved enough since the 2016 election; more are careful about polls and fact-checking, but many still allow Trump to lead coverage — On election night 2016, I described the news media's campaign performance as “an epic fail.” — You might remember what happened …

Discussion: @jamesfallows, @dabeard, @sulliview, Boing Boing and KRTV-TV

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

NYT shares some of the 4,000 pieces of misinformation from social media, text messaging apps, and email that its readers submitted to help focus its reporting — Readers submitted more than 4,000 examples of misinformation. Here are the different types being spread this election season.

Discussion: VICE News US, Nieman Lab, @jayrosen_nyu, @kevinroose, @jabjimenez and LJ infoDOCKET