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Bloomberg:
Senate report: Instagram dwarfs all social networks, including Facebook, in Russia's IRA posts and engagements, yet FB execs have not been upfront about this — - Document prepared for Senate Intelligence evaluates posts — Instagram tops Facebook in IRA posts and unique engagements
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Washington Post:
Report prepared for the Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more
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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
CBS board completes investigation of Les Moonves, says grounds to terminate exist, and he will not receive his $120M severance pay — Former CBS CEO Les Moonves will not receive severance pay following a sexual misconduct probe, the company's board of directors announced Monday evening.
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix has named former ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey as its vice president of original content — She will report directly fellow vp originals Cindy Holland and also oversee a large portion of the streamer's overall deals — including working with the Obamas, Shonda Rhimes, Kenya Barris, among others.
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Former far right extremists recall how they were radicalized by YouTube as teenagers because of its algorithm that 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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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 …
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
PewDiePie's fanbase are suspected of being behind WSJ hack in which a message was posted claiming the paper had apologized to him for critical coverage — PewDiePie's bro army has hit back at a publisher that hit him first. — The Wall Street Journal's website was compromised …
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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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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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Timothy Katz / YouTube Blog:
YouTube names the 87 recipients of its Google News Initiative innovation funding, including The Economist (UK) and La Nación (Argentina) — In July, as part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), we announced innovation funding to help newsrooms and publishers strengthen …
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Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Apple has signed “Fast and Furious” director Justin Lin in a multi-year TV development deal, in a blow to his longtime studio home Sony — He'll leave his longtime studio home of Sony for the tech giant. — Justin Lin is headed to Apple. — In a massive blow to Sony …
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 …
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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