Mediagazer: Time Magazine's new owners name current Editor in Chief Edward Felsenthal as chief executive; Felsenthal to continue as editor (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)

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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.

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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 …

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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 …

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:

Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections — Facebook announced Monday evening that it had blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in …

Discussion: Facebook, USA Today, TechCrunch, The Hill, CNN, @kevinroose, Axios and Engadget, 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, @lpolgreen, @jarroddicker, MarketWatch, @scottnover, @charlottealter and WWD

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 …

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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.

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

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: @willfitzgibbon and France 24

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

After Amazon's AbeBooks drops all sellers from certain countries like Russia, 450+ antiquarian book dealers in at least 26 countries pull their books in protest — SAN FRANCISCO — More than 450 antiquarian book dealers in at least 26 countries pulled their books off an Amazon subsidiary on Monday …

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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 …

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