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10:15 AM ET, December 20, 2018

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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.
Medium:
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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Spiegel Online:
Der Spiegel says editor and reporter Claas Relotius partially or wholly fabricated at least 14 articles, including some that were nominated for or won awards
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 …
Discussion: @apbenven, Thanks:@steverubel
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
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
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @rafat
WNYC News:
Laura Walker, New York Public Radio president since 1996, is stepping down when her contract expires in June after a tumultuous year for the organization  —  Longtime New York Public Radio President Laura R. Walker will step down next year.  In a letter emailed to staff, Walker said she and the Board …
Discussion: @yasmeenkhan
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 …
Brent Lang / Variety:
Study: consumers who visited a movie theatre 9+ times in the last 12 months consumed more streaming content than those who'd visited 1-2 times  —  Netflix isn't killing movie theaters.  At least, that's the take-away from a new study conducted by EY's Quantitative Economics and Statistics group …
 
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Greg Dool / Folio:
Interview with Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali on leadership, subscription products, the Skift Foundation, and the shortcomings of media-on-media coverage
Discussion: @foliomag, @rafat, @rafat and @rafat, Thanks:@steverubel
Eliza Dushku / The Boston Globe:
Eliza Dushku says Michael Weatherly bragged about ties with Les Moonves and says her manager was told Dushku would be “out of the business” if she sued CBS
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Maria Bustillos / Popula:
Popula becomes the first site using Civil to archive a full story's text with Ethereum, keeping the text safe from corporate reshufflings that can kill archives
Zach Baron / GQ:
A look at how The Fresno Bee newspaper and its reporters are coping as Rep. Devin Nunes wages a public campaign against them
 

 
From Techmeme:

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

 
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