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Washington Post:
Leaked report prepared for Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, more — The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to analyze the millions of posts provided …
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TMZ.com:
Colin Kroll, the CEO, co-founder of HQ Trivia and co-founder of Vine, has died at 34; police source says a drug overdose is suspected — Colin Kroll, the CEO and co-founder of HQ Trivia, has died of an apparent drug overdose ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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Louisiana State University:
Study shows that combination of articles defending journalism and fact-checking increased readers' trust in the media while fact-checking articles alone did not — Baton Rouge, LA - In a first-of-its-kind study from Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication …
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Bari Weiss / New York Times:
When actor Geoffrey Rush sued Murdoch's Nationwide News over a sexual harassment story, the company publicly identified the alleged victim in a court filing — Why Yael Stone is terrified to talk about Geoffrey Rush. — Ms. Weiss is a writer and editor for the Opinion section. — Yael Stone is scared.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
How National Enquirer's covers for Trump amplified false narratives online and provided a level of national prominence one expert thinks was worth $2.5M-$3M/mo. — The most powerful print publication in America might just be The National Enquirer. It functioned as a dirty-tricks shop …
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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
Inside Rupert Murdoch's deal that brought Fox, a second-tier network in 1993, into the US mainstream: heavily outbidding CBS on NFL TV rights and hiring Madden — An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
How Netflix aims to disrupt films after shaking up TV: opening in theaters briefly to qualify for Oscars and spending big on talent and quantity, ~90 films/year — As hundreds of movie buffs waited in line to see Alfonso Cuarón's “Roma” at the Telluride Film Festival in August …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A branded content section of WSJ's website was hacked on Monday, with a message posted praising YouTuber PewDiePie; he later tweeted a link to the page himself — Popular YouTube creator PewDiePie's ongoing battle to keep his channel's subscriber count No. 1 ahead of India's T-Series took …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Former far right extremists recall how they were radicalised by YouTube as teenagers, thanks to its algorithm which keeps surfacing extremist content — Former extremists say they were sucked in by propaganda as teenagers, thanks to an algorithm's dark side.
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The Daily Beast:
Mark Penn, a regular contributor to The Hill and pundit on Fox News who frequently defends Trump, had a decades-long business relationship with him — The former Clinton strategist, who has railed against the Mueller probe, said it was minor work and notes that it happened three decades ago.
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James Walker / Press Gazette:
An unnamed BBC reporter, following up on a Sunday Mirror story exposing a child grooming scandal, offered copy approval to a local government official — A BBC reporter offered copy approval to the chairman of Telford council's child safeguarding board in following up a Sunday Mirror scoop …
Deborah Haynes / Sky News:
Latvia's Foreign Ministry has raised concerns with the UK over “hardcore propaganda” broadcast by two Russian-language TV channels registered in London — Latvia has raised concerns with Britain over what one diplomat described as “hardcore propaganda” against the UK …
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