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US prosecutors charge Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act in an indictment that says he “repeatedly encouraged” sources to steal government secrets — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was charged Thursday with violating the Espionage Act by seeking out classified information …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
A distorted video of Speaker Pelosi, in which her speech is made to appear slurred, has 2M+ views on Facebook; YouTube says it has removed uploads of the video — Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she's drunkenly slurring her words …
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Axios:
Filing: Refinery29 is looking to raise up to $20M in convertible debt; source: $8M raised so far is from existing backers including Stripes Group, WarnerMedia — Refinery29, the venture-backed digital media company focused on millennial women, is looking to raise up to $20 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing.
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Pew Research Center:
Study: analysis of 17 national news outlets shows images accompanying stories on Facebook show men twice as often as women, most photos exclusively show men — Photos that exclusively show men make up the majority of photos that show people; representational differences persist across topics
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Benjamin Goggin / Business Insider:
GateHouse Media cuts jobs for the second time in 2019; CEO of its parent company says the changes could affect about 200 people and are a small restructuring — - The local-newspaper giant GateHouse Media is laying off journalists across the US, multiple sources told Business Insider.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Twitter permanently bans Brian and Ed Krassenstein, who frequently shared anti-Trump sentiments, alleging they ran fake accounts and purchased fake interactions — Ed and Brian Krassenstein are banned for life after ‘operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions,’ a Twitter spokesman said.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Sources: Harvey Weinstein and his former studio's board members reach a tentative $44M deal to resolve lawsuits by women who accused him of sexual misconduct — Harvey Weinstein and his former studio's board members have reached a tentative $44 million deal to resolve lawsuits by women …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Sources at Fox News say Sean Hannity doesn't follow Fox's supposed news standards because no one is willing to control him despite execs speaking with him — Despite reportedly being told to stop referring to dubious pundits as ‘investigative reporters,’ the primetime star has continued to do so.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
WSJ closes commenting to non-subscribers to improve its comment section; raises commenting time from 48 hours to four days after story publication — The Wall Street Journal has introduced a new comments strategy in order to drive a higher quality of debate on its site and improve the experience for subscribers.
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Guy Rosen / Facebook:
Facebook releases an update on enforcing its community standards, saying it banned 2.19B fake accounts in Q1 2019, up from 1.2B in Q4 2018 — Today, we're publishing our third Community Standards Enforcement Report, covering Q4 2018 and Q1 2019. This report adds a few additional data points:
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New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet on covering Trump, the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal, reader understanding, digital innovation, and more — In a wide-ranging and sometimes intimate conversation with 500 of his closest professional colleagues — close because they've …
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
Rolling Stones to assign songwriter Richard Ashcroft royalties for the 1997 song Bitter Sweet Symphony; Keith Richards and Mick Jagger to receive writing credit — Nearly 22 years after the Verve's “Bittersweet Symphony” was released, the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards …
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Bill Bowden / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's publisher says he may spend $12M to give Apple iPads to print subscribers converting to digital, hopes to convert all by end of 2019 — Walter Hussman hopes to convert Arkansas Democrat-Gazette print subscribers to digital by the end of the year in all 63 counties …
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