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Facebook complies with Singapore's fake news law and adds a label that is visible to local users, under the users' post, saying the post contains false info — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user's post at the request …
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Stefania Palma / Financial Times:
Singapore orders Facebook to correct a post by an Australian user, as part of a new “fake news” law; Facebook faces a fine of up to $365K if it does not comply — Singapore has ordered Facebook to correct a post by a user in Australia, marking the first time it has tried …
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Juliette Garside / The Guardian:
Prosecutors in Malta have charged Yorgen Fenech, a prominent businessman in the country, with complicity in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia — Yorgen Fenech entered not guilty plea to charges relating to killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia — A businessman has been charged …
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Stephen Grey / Reuters:
Source: confession of man charged in murder case of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia details how it was carried out and that killers were paid $150K — VALLETTA (Reuters) - One day in the summer of 2017, Vince Muscat dropped his friend Alfred Degiorgio at the Busy Bee …
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@reuters, @reuters, @corinne_vella, @reuters and The Guardian
BBC:
The owner of the Daily Mail, DGMT, buys the i newspaper and website for £49.6M from JPI Media, leaving The Scotsman and Yorkshire Post as JPI's biggest titles — The owner of the Daily Mail, DGMT, has bought the i newspaper and website for £49.6m from JPI Media.
Paul MacInnes / The Guardian:
Guardian Media Group appoints Anna Bateson as interim CEO; Bateson has been in charge of reader revenues at the company — David Pemsel has resigned as chief executive of the Premier League, two months before he was due to take up the role. — The 51-year-old has stood down after allegations appeared …
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Press Gazette, @insidernews, @willwrite4cake, @markdistef, The Wrap, BBC, Financial Times and The Drum
Joe Tidy / BBC:
BBC asks the UK Conservative party to take down a Facebook ad that uses edited footage of its news reporters and presenters — The BBC has complained to the Conservatives about a Facebook advert that uses edited footage of its news reporters and presenters.
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Press Gazette, @dangillmor, @damocrat and The Guardian
BuzzFeed:
After Channel 4 replaced Boris Johnson with an ice sculpture during climate debate, source says Conservative government will review its broadcasting license — A Conservative source told BuzzFeed News that if they win the coming election they will reassess the channel's public service broadcasting licence.
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
A look at Courier Newsroom, which is raising $25M and aims to counter right-wing spin via digital “hometown” newspapers with articles targeted to sway voters — In the days after the White House released a readout of Donald Trump's July 25 phone call with the president of Ukraine …
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Graig Graziosi / Columbia Journalism Review:
A long look at the last days of The Vindicator in Youngstown, OH, and how its closure mirrored the closing of the town's GM auto plant and Rust Belt decline — WHEN THE VINDICATOR DIED, I knew it meant I'd have to leave my hometown. Again. — The shuttering of Youngstown …
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@spj_tweets, @graiggraziosi, @cjr, @producercities, @graiggraziosi, @nicknyhan, @timohara1112 and @cjr
Bloomberg:
Sources: Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is in talks to sell his news media assets, including Network18, to India's Times Group — - Sony already in talks to buy Network18 entertainment stake — Billionaire Mukesh Ambani is in talks to sell his news media assets to India's Times Group …
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@bloombergquint and @riarevealed
Monika Bauerlein / Mother Jones:
Mother Jones CEO says NYT shouldn't lead partisan resistance, but if the paper's chief executive won't stand against authoritarianism, it is failing its mission — Over the past month or so, the New York Times' executive editor, Dean Baquet, has been giving a handful of interviews about the role …
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@johnmcquaid, @ggreeneva, @coreypein, @erinbiba, @rvawonk, @monikabauerlein, @jayrosen_nyu, @motherjones, @noonanjo and @lpolgreen
Reuters:
Sources: amid a CFIUS investigation, ByteDance is separating TikTok from its Chinese operations and providing assurances US user data is inaccessible to China — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok …
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