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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, Reese Witherspoon sign on to produce movies 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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Larrison Campbell / Mississippi Today:
A candidate for Mississippi governor, Robert Foster, refused a reporter's request for access to a campaign trip unless she brought a male colleague with her — In recent weeks, in an attempt to better inform readers about candidates in the upcoming Republican gubernatorial primary …
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Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
US newsroom employment fell 25% between 2008 and 2018, down 47% for newspapers, up 82% in the digital-native sector, remaining stable for broadcast and cable TV — Newsroom employment across the United States continues to decline, driven primarily by job losses at newspapers.
Daniela Flamini / Poynter:
Profile of Congo Check, a 16 member fact-checking project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where internet access is often limited to Facebook and WhatsApp — In March of this year, a rumor began to spread in Bukavu, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo …
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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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Political leaders keep talking about changing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; others say changes could infringe free speech and harm small sites — At stake is a 26-word provision in the 1996 Communications Decency Act that protects online platforms from liability for content their users post.
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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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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.
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.
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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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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