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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Facebook's shift to more private sharing will make misinformation harder to track and raises questions about the company's liability for its diffusion — On Wednesday, in what seemed like a major shift, Mark Zuckerberg wrote that he wants to reorient Facebook around private, encrypted …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Fox News is a shameless propaganda outfit that chips away at core values, and mainstream journalists who fail to recognize the problem are being willfully blind — Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors.
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Facebook:
Facebook will curb vaccine misinformation by reducing the ranking of anti-vaccine Pages and groups, halting recommendations for those pages, rejecting ads, more — We are working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic.
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Foreign Policy:
Sources: Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro's International Women of Courage Award was rescinded by the State Department because she frequently criticized Trump — Jessikka Aro was to receive a “Women of Courage” prize. Then officials read her Twitter feed.
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Mediaite, ABC News, Politico, @glennkesslerwp, @sanhotree, @isaacstonefish, @shakestweetz, @crampell and @stollmeyereu
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
UK minister for culture and digital, Jeremy Wright, calls on YouTube to reconsider continuing to give far-right activist Tommy Robinson a platform — The continued presence of a U.K. far-right activist on YouTube's platform has been raised by the deputy leader of the official opposition …
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Press Gazette and The Independent
NBC 7 San Diego:
Leaked documents show the US government is closely monitoring journalists and immigration advocates tied to the 2018 migrant caravan — The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
In six days, the Murdoch-owned NY Post published 24 articles about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; one source credits high-level orders, another credits tabloid focus — The New York Post's relentless coverage of the freshman congresswoman from the Bronx has some in the newsroom speculating that the old man is taking the reins.
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@vanityfair, @joepompeo, @gerryfsmith and @brianstelter
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comedy Central has launched its first YouTube channel for original content, Comedy Central Originals, starting with five new shows — Comedy Central is stepping on the gas in its digital-entertainment drive with the launch of its first YouTube channel for originals.
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Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube has started rolling out a feature, in India, that shows info panels with fact checks on search result pages for topics prone to misinformation — YouTube will start showing “information panels” — boxes of text that provide debunks from YouTube's verified fact-checking partners …
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Fast Company and The Outline, more at Techmeme »
Steven Greenhouse / Columbia Journalism Review:
Five blue-collar American workers from across the Rust Belt reflect on eroding faith in the media, as newspapers cut back on the labor beat — Five union members from across the Rust Belt reflect on eroding faith in the media — After the 2016 election, there was a sense of panic in many newsrooms …
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@greenhousenyt and @margotroosevelt
Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
The Washington Post petitions a federal court to open sealed and redacted records, including 800+ pages of exhibits, in the criminal case against Paul Manafort — Objecting to an abundance of sealed and redacted records in the criminal case against Paul Manafort, the president's former campaign chairman …
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@carolleonnig
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Twitter adds new options to its reporting process for tweets that contain personal information, allowing users to specify what type of info was shared — New options will let users flag the specific type of personal information that is being reported — Twitter is adding new options …
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