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1:35 AM ET, May 30, 2019

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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Critics slammed Facebook and Twitter for hosting a doctored video of Pelosi, but many overlooked Fox News, which smeared Pelosi via a separate video montage  —  Novel forms of digital misinformation still pale in comparison with Fox News' full-time hall of mirrors.
VICE:
Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde says the company is looking into how white nationalists and supremacists use the platform to determine if they should be banned  —  “Is it the right approach to deplatform these individuals?  Is the right approach to try and engage with these individuals?
Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco police obtained search warrants targeting journalist Bryan Carmody's phone records before their raid on his home and office  —  San Francisco police executed seven search warrants as they tried to find out who leaked a police report to a freelance journalist …
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Disney's Bob Iger said it would be difficult to film in Georgia if a new abortion law takes effect: “Many people who work for us will not want to work there”  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Iger told Reuters on Wednesday it would be “very difficult” …
Aaron Kirchfeld / Bloomberg:
KKR is in talks with the founding family of Axel Springer SE, publisher of Bild, about a potential bid to take the publisher private  —  - Offer from family, buyout firm could be made in coming weeks  —  KKR & Co. is in talks with Axel Springer SE's founding family about a potential bid …
Discussion: @msnabilaahmed
Alex Johnson / NBC News:
NBC officially launches NBC News Now, a free streaming news service with 8 hours of programming every weekday, expects to have it running 24/7 by 2020  —  The service, which doesn't require cable service authentication, is intended to go round the clock by next year.
Shoshana Wodinsky / Adweek:
The Washington Post is releasing its proprietary ad-tech stack, Zeus, to all web publishers; it had been available to those who used Arc, WaPo's in-house CMS  —  Assistance from The Post's programmatic sales and engineering team is also available  —  The Washington Post is gearing up to bring its programmatic platform web-wide.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Vox Media Union workers walked out for an hour to push for a contract with management; hiring has moved toward part-time and contract jobs since staff unionized  —  Many editorial and video employees at Vox Media are, at this hour, finishing up a walkout to protest their employer's stance …
Brad Hill / RAIN News:
Vivendi's Radionomy will shut down US internet radio streaming on its platform this week, offers to migrate stations to Shoutcast for Business  —  A Radionomy internet radio producer sent us a communication from the hosting company, indicating that Radionomy will shut down U.S. streaming on its platform at the end of May (this week).
Discussion: hypebot
Justin Ray / Columbia Journalism Review:
Former TV reporter Valeria Sistrunk on why she created RateMyStation, a forum that lets journalists write and read anonymous reviews of their newsrooms  —  In a corner of a big, empty Krispy Kreme in Atlanta, Valeria Sistrunk is nibbling on a donut.  She is 27, with wide eyes and an ever-present smile.
David Uberti / VICE News:
Researchers say Facebook has weakened or disabled tools they use to track political ads and content on the platform, just as 2020 campaigns ramp up ad spending  —  The Iowa caucuses are still eight months away, but the Facebook primary has already begun.  —  President Donald Trump has poured …
 
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