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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
Profile of a “satire” site that promotes absurd pro-right posts on Facebook, and one of its readers, who shares its posts without seeing the satire — NORTH WATERBORO, Maine — The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Google's VP of News points to 2014 shutdown of Google News in Spain, says “We would not like to see that happen in Europe”, due to the proposed EU “link tax” — Search engine is lobbying hard to stop proposed tax, aimed at compensating news publishers
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BBC:
Facebook only has four full-time fact-checkers for its 24M users in Nigeria, none of which speak Hausa; police work with community leader to debunk stories — Nigerian police say false information on Facebook is killing people — Nigerian police say false information and incendiary images …
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Rebecca Mead / New Yorker:
How podcasts, whose audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion, became a seductive mode of storytelling that can sometimes be manipulative — In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative.
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including “The Terminator” — Last month YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported movies for the first time, giving viewers access to Hollywood titles including …
Richard Fletcher / Reuters Institute Digital …:
Report: Turkey had highest number of people, 49%, who were exposed to completely made up news in a given week, while US had 31%, and Germany had the least at 9% — The global debate over so-called ‘fake news’ has changed a lot in the last year. What began as concern over the narrow problem …
Eli Sanders / The Stranger:
BuzzFeed reporter Blake Montgomery was arrested in Seattle while attempting to contact a story's subject in person, faces criminal trespass charges — On November 5, the same day The Stranger published its “Death of a Kinkster” investigation, Dylan Hafertepen appeared in King County District …
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Daniel Dale / Washington Post:
Fact-checking Trump, who tells the same lies, is easy: he invents unnamed people, claims records he hasn't broken, and inflates numbers — Daniel Dale is the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star. — I've made it my mission to fact-check every word Donald Trump utters as president.
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Kevin Alexander / Thrillist:
The fate of Stanich's, a restaurant that closed after being rated #1 by Thrillist, prompts introspection regarding food critics' responsibilities and audiences — n my office, I have a coffee mug from Stanich's in Portland, Oregon. Under the restaurant name, it says “Great hamburgers since 1949.”
Charlotte Graham-McLay / New York Times:
Profile of Mike Dickison, New Zealand's first Wikipedian-at-Large, who wants to boost the country's representation on the site by pushing New Zealanders to edit — AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In the grand library of the Auckland War Memorial Museum on a Saturday morning in August …
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Freelance journalist Sarah Baird launches Shoeleather, a directory of local reporters available for freelance work that currently lists 330 journalists — Amazon may have gone with the most predictable of picks for HQ2, but that doesn't give media organizations an out for hunkering down in the country's elite metropolises.
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Jeneé Osterheldt / The Boston Globe:
Interview with Kristine Guillaume, the first black woman voted to serve as president of The Harvard Crimson since its inception 145 years ago — She was trying to focus on reading “Chokehold: Policing Black Men” Sunday night. — Rihanna's voice sang from the speakers, “All this work, no vacation.”
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CNN:
Judge orders White House to return Acosta's hard pass immediately citing violation of due process, thus granting CNN's request for a temporary restraining order — (CNN)Federal judge Timothy J. Kelly sided with CNN on Friday, ordering the White House to reinstate chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass.
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Scott Nover / The Atlantic:
Press freedom advocates express cautious relief, for now, after the return of Jim Acosta's press press, and praise unity of most media outlets supporting access
Press freedom advocates express cautious relief, for now, after the return of Jim Acosta's press press, and praise unity of most media outlets supporting access
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