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Facebook says it has removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attack in the first 24 hours; over 1.2M of those videos were blocked at upload — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
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Helping people examine killers' motives could help defuse radicalization, but the press has a responsibility not to pour gasoline on a roaring blaze of racism — Mass shootings have a way of making the theoretical talk about Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and their role in spreading hate all too real.
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As social media platforms struggle to remove the NZ shooter's video, the Sun and Daily Mirror ran edited footage and Mail Online published the manifesto as well — Other British news outlets, The Sun and The Mirror, featured the attacker's first-person video, including in GIF form on the homepages of their websites.
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Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees detail the process and the difficulty of moderating Facebook Live
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Fox News did not air Jeanine Pirro's show on Saturday, a week after her remarks that Rep. Ilhan Omar may not support the US Constitution because she's a Muslim — Jeanine Pirro's weekly show on Fox News did not air on Saturday evening one week after the former federal judge suggested on air …
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American officials citing intel reports say Jamal Khashoggi's killing was part of a broad campaign to silence dissenters, authorized by MbS over a year before — WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia authorized a secret campaign to silence dissenters …
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Interview with Wired's EIC Nicholas Thompson and audience development director Indu Chandrasekhar on subscriptions, newsletters, Apple News, and more — A year after launching its paywall, Wired isn't done testing out new ways to capitalize on this and other consumer-based revenue models.
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How Australian journalists covered the years-long child sex abuse investigation of George Pell and his subsequent trials amid court suppression orders — In February 2016, Lucie Morris-Marr broke news of a police probe into allegations that Australia's Cardinal George Pell …
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A profile of David McCraw, the NYT's in-house lawyer, handling FOIA, crisis response, and matters in between: “How am I going to get this published?” — Late one Wednesday night, in October 2016, The New York Times received a letter from longtime Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.


In Japan, three-year-old online streamer AbemaTV has ~25 ad-supported channels and ~8M viewers per week with a focus on low-budget reality-based programming — TOKYO (Reuters) - On a Friday night at a downtown Tokyo television studio, 12 teen models with cutesy nicknames like Ayamin and Kyokyo …
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Profile of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist, whose murder in 2017 became the symbol of the ruling party's war on journalists it often calls “presstitutes” — How the journalist Gauri Lankesh became a casualty of India's increasingly intolerant politics.
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Q&A with James Evans, a computational scientist, and Misha Teplitskiy, a post-doc fellow at Harvard, on filter bubbles and political diversity on Wikipedia — A lesson in how to break out of filter bubbles. — In 2013, James Evans, a University of Chicago sociologist and computational scientist …
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Since the Disney-Fox merger was announced, longtime 20th Century Fox employees say they've been issued mostly vague guidelines with no clear business directives — With the biggest entertainment merger in a lifetime about to close, anxiety is running high on the Fox lot and beyond.
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