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Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says he will resign in January, after coming under fire for his handling of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia — Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has announced on national TV that he will step down in the new year, amid a crisis over a murdered journalist.
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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 …
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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Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be morally responsible for the content it recommends — YouTube's mission is to give everyone a voice, but the site's open platform has opened the door to hate.
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Business Insider, @rationaldis, @hunterwalk, @hshaban, @lutherlowe, @nickmartin, @slpng_giants and CNET, more at Techmeme »
Ethan Zuckerman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Imagining a better web, using the history of radio globally as a guide, and rethinking assumptions about the commercial internet's venture capital-backed rise — What would social media look like if it served the public interest? — Over the course of a few short years, a technological revolution shook the world.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK's Liberal Democrats suspend a senior member of their campaign after he forged an email while demanding retraction of a story by the website openDemocracy — Party had sought retraction of journalist's story about alleged sale of voter data — The Liberal Democrats have suspended …
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@shutupandrosky and @dawnhfoster
Max Willens / Digiday:
Forbes acquires stock prediction service Quantalytics AI Labs; source: Forbes' non-ad revenue almost doubled from 18% of annual total in 2014 to 33%+ in 2019 — At the beginning of 2019, Forbes Media had just finished celebrating its most profitable year in a decade and had begun hunting for companies it could invest in or buy.
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Newsweek fires reporter for writing an inaccurate article about Trump's Thanksgiving Day plans; reporter blames editor who failed to update her original piece — The Newsweek reporter who was fired after writing an inaccurate article about President Trump's Thanksgiving Day plans is deflecting some of the blame onto her editor.
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The Verge:
The PIRATE Act, passed by the House, would increase the amount and kinds of fines faced by pirate radios, which often service unrepresented local communities — When she was growing up in East Flatbush among the Haitian diaspora, former pirate broadcaster Joan Martinez …
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@fooconner and @knguyen
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Chairman of UK's News Media Association calls on political parties to end the practice of mimicking local newspapers with their election campaign material — News UK chief operating officer David Dinsmore has backed the call for political parties to “immediately end” the practice …
Reuters:
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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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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