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Todd Spangler / Variety:
WarnerMedia's HBO Max is set to launch in spring 2020 with 10K hours of programming including exclusive streaming rights to Friends, CW dramas, and films — Greg Berlanti and Reese Witherspoon also signed to movie deals for HBO Max — Get ready to make “Friends” with HBO Max …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
A look at the spread of Seth Rich conspiracy theories, and how one theory allegedly was posted by Russian foreign intelligence three days after Rich's death — WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Rather than blaming Russia, it's more accurate to pin the broad embrace of Seth Rich conspiracies on Julian Assange, Alex Jones, and Sean Hannity — At a moment when linking 2016 election events to malign Russian intelligence officers has seemingly gone out of style, Yahoo News's Michael Isikoff …
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Jennifer Maas / The Wrap:
Netflix says Stranger Things 3 has been viewed by 40.7M households since its July 4 launch, a new record for a Netflix film or series — Netflix says “Stranger Things 3” has been viewed by more than 40 million household accounts since its July 4 premiere, a new record for the streaming service.
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Federal appeals court rules that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter — President Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications …
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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
YouTube officially returns to Fire TV, and Amazon's Prime Video apps are adding support for Chromecast and additional Android TV devices — Amazon and Google have mostly made up — YouTube is officially back on Fire TV devices starting today, almost a year and a half after Google pulled …
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Day One, The Streamable, The Keyword, TechCrunch, BetaNews, @shiraovide and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »
Andrew Ferguson / The Atlantic:
A look at the WSJ's Friday Mansion supplement, which offers readers envy and schadenfreude while never holding the powerful to account — Each week, The Wall Street Journal offers its readers the choice between envy and schadenfreude. — Mansion, The Wall Street Journal's real-estate supplement …
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The Daily Caller
CNN:
White House confirms that it has hired Michelle Moons, a Breitbart correspondent of five years, to work in the office of Domestic Policy Council — New York (CNN Business)The White House correspondent for Breitbart, a far-right website supportive of President Trump, has joined the Trump administration …
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Talking Points Memo, @johnpaczkowski, @drvox, The Hill and Mediaite
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
A reporter and a cameraman at Radio Marti, which is run by US Agency for Global Media, have been suspended for allegedly faking a mortar attack on the reporter — WASHINGTON — The United States Agency for Global Media, the government's foreign broadcast service, already struggling …
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Voice of America, The Daily Caller and Boing Boing
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Inside deliberations at Twitter on defining “dehumanizing speech” and its decision to limit enforcement on the issue to tweets about religious groups for now — SAN FRANCISCO — Last August, Twitter's top executives gathered at the company's headquarters to discuss how to make the site safer for its users.
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CNN, TechCrunch, Mediaite, Twitter, 9to5Mac and @kateconger, more at Techmeme »
Neima Jahromi / New Yorker:
An overview of moderation challenges facing YouTube, which raise fundamental questions about what social media platforms have become and what they should be — The video giant's recent travails underscore a basic question: How “neutral” should social-media platforms try to be?
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@daveyalba, more at Techmeme »
Attila Mong / Committee to Protect Journalists:
In Albania, where organized crime and politics are intertwined, both local and international journalists face violence and job loss for covering these ties — The intersection of organized crime, corruption and politics in Albania is impacting the country's press.
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