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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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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 …


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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@ava_l_, @ivanmartin89, @stephengrey, @reuters, @corinne_vella, @reuters, @reuters and Politico


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 »


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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@medialab, @mau_mejiag, @thorntonaustin, @librarieseu, Scott Lamb's i18n and 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


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.


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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New York Daily News, Talking Points Memo, @mikebrestdc, HuffPost, Deadline, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Fox News and Breitbart


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


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 …


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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Bloomberg, Guerre di Rete, Engadget, euronews, The Straits Times and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »


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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@davidfickling, @brendannyhan, @losowsky and @timcast