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8:45 AM ET, December 2, 2019

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BBC:
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says he will resign in January, after coming under pressure for his handling of the murder of 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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Reuters:
China's new rules, effective Jan. 1, require videos created using AI or VR tech to be clearly marked, make distribution of deepfakes a possible criminal offense  —  BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online …
 
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