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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared onstage at Trump's rally on Monday night, after both he and the network had denied that he would do so — “I had no idea you were going to invite me up here,” said Hannity, who had pledged he would not campaign on stage on Monday night.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News said it does not condone Sean Hannity's appearance onstage at a Trump rally on Monday night and called it an “unfortunate distraction” — Fox News Channel said it did not condone host Sean Hannity's appearance Monday night during President Donald Trump's campaign rally …
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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 …
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Tony Leys / Des Moines Register:
US Rep. Steve King's campaign refuses to give press credentials to The Des Moines Register for King's election night event — Rep. Steve King nearly halted his visit to an Iowa candidate forum after a man asked about similarities between King and the alleged synagogue shooter
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The Guardian:
The Guardian partners with Google to launch Guardian Voice Lab, which will make and test voice-driven audio experiences for Google Assistant with a team of four — Guardian News & Media is pleased to announce the launch of Guardian Voice Lab - an in-house team dedicated to experimenting …
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Axios:
Sources: AT&T intends to notify 12+ customers their service is being terminated over piracy allegations, the first time it has taken such action — AT&T will alert a little more than a dozen customers within the next week or so that their service will be terminated due to copyright infringement …
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A look at several successful journalism Kickstarter campaigns as seven of the ten most funded journalism projects on the site took place in the last year — The first time the National Observer tried to raise money on Kickstarter, they couldn't get the framing quite right.
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Matt Lopez / The Wrap:
TicToc, Bloomberg's 24/7 news network, is trying to curb fake news around the mid-term elections by creating 50 Twitter Moments with verified info — Network will create 50 Moments on platform to “fight through saturation that will be Twitter on election night”
Politico:
Preparing to cover the midterm election results, journalists and editors say they have learned from 2016's mistakes — “We're going to be nimble. We're going to follow the results," an ABC News exec said. “We're not going to assume anything.” — CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist …
James Loke Hale / Tubefilter:
Sources: Defy Media is shutting down its LA office and making the ~80 employees who work there redundant — Defy Media has given all of the employees working out of its Beverly Hills production office notice that they will be laid off and the office will be permanently closed effective Jan. 2 …
Jonathan Albright:
Right Wing News, one of hundreds of “inauthentic” Facebook Pages removed in October, consistently outperformed Pages like Breitbart and Fox News from 2013-2016 — Part III: Granular Enforcement — The third part of my midterm election-time study looks at granular enforcement …
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Maclean's:
Canadian news magazine Maclean's publishes its most recent issue with 66,349 unique covers, each dedicated to a Canadian who died in the First World War — Maclean's has published more than 66,000 covers, each one dedicated to an individual Canadian who died in the First World War
Mike Baker / The Seattle Times:
Gab is back online after being banned by GoDaddy, PayPal, and others, and its domain has now migrated to Epik, a registrar based in the Seattle area — Pittsburgh shooting suspect Robert Bowers had spewed anti-Semitic hate on social-media site Gab and wrote a post there shortly before the synagogue massacre.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Facebook's own data shows that by the time the company pulled Trump's anti-immigration ad, between 3M-5M people likely had already seen it — After the Trump campaign produced and distributed a campaign ad last week that conflated the issue of violent crime and the so-called caravan …
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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
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