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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Sources: Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro's International Women of Courage Award was rescinded by the State Department because she frequently criticized Trump — Jessikka Aro was to receive a “Women of Courage” prize.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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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
BuzzFeed News:
DHS' inspector general is probing whether officials violated policies by creating a list of journalists and activists to be questioned at the southern border — WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general is investigating whether immigration officials violated policies …
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NBC 7 San Diego:
Leaked documents show the US government is closely monitoring journalists and immigration advocates tied to the 2018 migrant caravan
Leaked documents show the US government is closely monitoring journalists and immigration advocates tied to the 2018 migrant caravan
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says streaming service Disney+ will include the entire Disney film library soon after launch this year, essentially ending Disney's “vault” — Exclusivity and availability is a tremendous advantage — Disney+, the company's upcoming streaming service …
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Sydney Johnson / EdSurge:
Turnitin, a developer of AI software that checks for plagiarism, will be acquired by media conglomerate Advance Publications, reportedly for nearly $1.75B — A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry.
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Chronicle of Higher Education, @educationpalmer, Turnitin and Wall Street Journal
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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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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Talking Biz News, @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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Boing Boing and @carolleonnig
Variety:
Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon have filed to appeal a copyright ruling that increases payouts to songwriters by 44%; sources: Apple not planning to appeal — Amazon is filing a separate appeal against the ruling, which would increase writer rates by nearly 50%.
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