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Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Facebook decides to let the misleading Nancy Pelosi video remain on its platform indefinitely, but with a fact check, says it will limit the video's reach — Nancy Pelosi, the 79-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, has been a frequent target for President Donald Trump and his political allies.
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Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Refusal to remove fake Pelosi video shows how Facebook confuses simple mistakes with deliberate deception, avoiding its responsibility as a key news distributor — This latest doctored video proves that Facebook as we knew it is over. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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Peter S. Green / New York Times:
Czech energy magnate Daniel Kretinsky buys a 13% stake in Le Monde and its sibling publications; some in the newsroom are troubled by the deal's opaqueness — PARIS — Blaise Gauquelin, the Central Europe correspondent for Le Monde, called his editor at the paper's Paris headquarters …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
How The New Orleans Advocate expanded rapidly: by buying out competitor The Times-Picayune and absorbing its news staff, savvy and hands-off ownership, and more — Even before owners of The New Orleans Advocate bought the assets of its competitor, The Times-Picayune and NOLA.com …
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Eddie Kim / MEL Magazine:
The Pirate Bay, the iconic torrent site born in 2003, remains an online juggernaut despite blockages in multiple countries and millions of dollars in fines — As the internet continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate, one thing always remains constant — The Pirate Bay
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Colin Peacock / RNZ:
Public and private media groups in New Zealand announce a collaborative service which will hire eight reporters to boost local news coverage across media — Publicly funded reporters will be employed by news publishers around the country in a first-of-its-kind scheme unveiled today to address declines in local news coverage.
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Emma Grey Ellis / Wired:
Profile of HobbyKidsTV, a family-run children's YouTube channel with 3M+ subscribers and adult moderators protecting its kid hosts and viewers from predators — In it will be a Silver Play Button, a plaque that YouTube gives to creators who have surpassed 100,000 subscribers.
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Britni de la Cretaz / Longreads:
Profile of womenSports, the first magazine dedicated to women in sports launched by Billie Jean King soon after the Battle of the Sexes and published until 2000 — The idea for womenSports magazine was born in a car suspended over the San Francisco Bay by beams of steel.
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Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News:
Rolling Stone cancelled the release, slated for May 13, of its music charts; report says due to issues with plans to give free streams like YouTube more weight — Rolling Stone's heavily-hyped charts release remains M.I.A., with rumors pointing to numerous snags and even in-fighting.
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Geoff Colvin / Fortune:
A look at AT&T's grand vision of transforming into a “modern media” company spanning multiple content networks, distribution channels, and customer data streams — Bellhead CEO Randall Stephenson is taking on Netflix and Comcast simultaneously. It won't be easy.
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
More than 80 publishers and tech companies unite to form Reverso, a fact-checking initiative to fight misinformation, ahead of Argentina's October election — Election verification projects are very in right now. — Last summer, 24 newsrooms in Brazil joined forces to fact-check misinformation about fall's presidential election.
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is looking to bring back Julia Angwin as editor in chief of The Markup, weeks after she was forced out — Journalist was forced out of the Markup last month after clashing with executive editor — Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is looking …
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Columbia Journalism Review:
As Greece prepares for upcoming elections, mainstream journalists running as conservative opposition candidates have given rise to a new misinformation network — In February, Adonis Georgiadis, the deputy chairman of New Democracy, Greece's conservative main opposition party …
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