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Two residents of Fergus Falls, MN, detail what Claas Relotius of Der Spiegel fabricated or got wrong when he visited to write about US rural support of Trump — In February 2017, my husband and I attended a concert at our local theater, and were sipping some wine in the lobby before the show started.
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Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
District court judge rules in BuzzFeed's favor in lawsuit from tech exec Aleksej Gubarev after publication of Steele dossier, citing the fair report privilege — The outlet can't evade a defamation claim from Aleksej Gubarev by arguing he must show actual malice.
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Boston Globe publisher and owner John Henry says the newspaper is profitable and predicts it will be next year too, but doesn't reveal figures — Here's an unexpected development: The Boston Globe, which has been losing money more often than not for years, is now turning a profit, according to publisher and owner John Henry.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Ad boycotts of Tucker Carlson Tonight were inevitable after people publicly objected to racist messages and Fox News abdicated its role of supervising a host — In October, Tucker Carlson boasted about how he could say anything he wants to say on his prime-time Fox News program …
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Sources: T-Mobile is delaying the launch of its TV service, which was planned for this year, after the project proved more complex than expected — - Carrier has been touting project as a way to disrupt cable TV — Delay comes at awkward time for Sprint deal's regulatory push
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Ime Archibong / Facebook:
Facebook confirms Spotify, Netflix, Dropbox, and RBC had read/write/delete access for messaging integrations, says it was experimental and ended three years ago — In the past day, we've been accused of disclosing people's private messages to partners without their knowledge.
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Konstantinos Papamiltiadis / Facebook:
Facebook says it shared data with integration partners only when users signed in with their Facebook accounts to access features on other platforms, devices
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New York Times:
Documents show Facebook gave ~150 companies, including NYT, Yahoo, and other media access to more user data than disclosed; FB says it didn't violate FTC decree
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Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Dow Jones Media Group publisher and EVP Almar Latour says the group has been renamed to Barron's Group because the Barron's name resonates — 'We've seen the Barron's name resonate' — More than two years after Dow Jones Media Group formed to boost a collection of brands' visibilities …
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Talking Biz News and @rafat
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Bloomberg is expanding TicToc beyond Twitter, adding the general news video service to airport screens in the US and Canada and planning its own platform for Q1 — Bloomberg Media thinks its one-year-old TicToc news brand has cracked the code on delivering bite-size chunks of news and analysis …
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MediaPost and @apbenven, Thanks:@steverubel
Siobhán O'Grady / Washington Post:
As Cameroon spirals into civil war, its journalists are being arrested and imprisoned on a charge of “fake news” for trying to report on the violence — DOUALA, Cameroon — In Cameroon, where English-speaking separatists are fighting the largely French-speaking government …
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@angelaquintal and @keithboykin
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
NBCU, Sony, Warner Bros, and Sky offer to give access to content broadcast by Sky to viewers outside UK to prevent European Commission antitrust investigation — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros and Sky have offered to end anti-competitive movie licensing deals …
Ofcom:
Britain's Ofcom finds RT guilty of seven breaches of broadcasting rules by failing to preserve impartiality and is considering sanctions — Ofcom has today found that the RT news channel broke broadcasting rules by failing to preserve due impartiality in seven news and current affairs programmes over a six-week period.
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Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
ByteDance is suing Chinese tech news site Huxiu for defamation for its story alleging that ByteDance's Indian news app Helo was publishing false information — The $75B-valued media company says it is victim of “malicious slander.” — There's worrying news from China's online media world as ByteDance …
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Gareth Davies / Telegraph:
Judge lets Harvey Weinstein sexual assault case move forward with a pre-trial hearing set for March 7 — A judge has declined to dismiss the sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein. — Weinstein was one of Hollywood's most powerful figures when scores of women - including A-list actresses …
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