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Bezos' security chief says AMI demanded he claim Bezos story didn't result from hacking or external forces, and says he's confident Saudis accessed Bezos' phone — The National Enquirer's lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking. — For 40 years, I've advised at-risk public figures …
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Survey: 19 out of 21 news organizations studied had no documented policies for preservation of their web content and none were preserving social media posts — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — This research report explores archiving practices and policies across newspapers, magazines, wire services …
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@spj_tweets, @fheinderyckx, @michaelbolden and Columbia Journalism Review


Alex Jones of InfoWars, in a deposition, denies he had intentionally spread lies about Sandy Hook and rejects responsibility for Sandy Hook parents' pain — For all his dangerous talk about the Sandy Hook school shooting, Alex Jones couldn't even recall the date it happened.
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Facebook says it “mistakenly deleted” some of Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts that were public and reported on, including a post about the Instagram acquisition — - Some old Facebook posts by CEO Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared, and the company says it “mistakenly deleted” them.
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April Fools prank stories share many attributes with fake news stories, like using more first-person pronouns, and can help researchers better detect fake news — April Fool's. On Monday morning, be prepared for this year's assortment of April Fool's Day pranks across the web …
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eMarketer expects Amazon Music will pass 35M MAUs in the US this year, up 17.7% YoY, growing faster than any other digital audio service in its forecast — Amazon Music will cross 35 million monthly listeners in the US this year. At a growth rate of 17.7% year over year …
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Current and former MLB Advanced Media employees say the company has fostered a toxic and overly demanding work environment for years under poor leadership — On the second Tuesday of February, at 3:00 in the afternoon, around 40 employees of MLB Advanced Media—one arm of MLB's media empire …
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BBC says it wants to improve public perception around its news impartiality and will make fact-checking service Reality Check a more visible part of news output — Improving public perception around its news impartiality is one of the BBC's four priorities for the year ahead, according to its latest annual plan.


Interview with Norm Pearlstine, LA Times executive editor with a new multiyear contract, on expanding staff, cross-functional teams, food coverage, and more — “With a traditional media company, you can have well-defined lines as long as you're doing the same thing every day.
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Inside FactCheckEU, a collaboration between 19 EU media outlets from 13 countries that fact checks articles and debunks rumors ahead of upcoming EU elections — It's been more than a week since 19 European media outlets from 13 countries started collaborating to separate facts from fiction ahead …


Google gives a €50K grant to media company running Origo, a Hungarian pro-government news portal, baffling free expression activists and independent journalists — Google joins the Hungarian government of Viktor Orban and its allies in funding the company that runs Origo, a Hungarian pro-government news portal.
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Media1 and Digital News Initiative


United Mexican Journalists survey of ~400 women in media: 73% suffered sexual harassment, 50% by their bosses, 43% by sources; only 20% made official complaints — Mexican wave of the movement erupted in creative industries and media where 73% of female workers have faced sexual harassment
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@nobelwomen


In his interview, Neal Mohan disingenuously fails to mention that YouTube gives users a heavily weighted single recommendation after each video via autoplay — There is perhaps no better pipeline to online radicalization, save for 4chan, than by watching videos on YouTube.
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@math_rachel and @dtunkelang
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Interview with YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan about its recommendation algorithms, radicalization, violent extremism, and the rabbit-hole effect
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