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Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath / Axios:
Trump announced on Twitter on Friday that the Defense Department “will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine” — The Pentagon has ordered the shut down of the military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, despite objections by Congress, per the AP.
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Kathy Kiely / USA Today:
Leaked memo orders dissolution of military news outlet Stars and Stripes with final issue on Sept. 30, though Congress hasn't approved proposal to cut subsidy — Trump wants to pull funding from Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for American troops that began in the Civil War and has been serving our soldiers.
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Slate:
Facebook's pre-election ban on political ads will likely suppress key speech and is a de facto ban on campaigns responding on Facebook to late-breaking news — On Thursday, Facebook announced a set of U.S. election season changes to political advertising and content moderation.
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Reuters:
Reuters announces it is partnering with Facebook to give users live US election results, including vote tabulation, exit polls, and winner projections
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Kim Bojórquez / Sacramento Bee:
California's Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill allowing exemptions from the AB5 labor law for freelance writers, some workers in the music industry, and others — More California industries can hire independent contractors instead of employees with benefits under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed …
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BuzzFeed News:
BuzzFeed will refer to QAnon as a “collective delusion” from now as it better describes the phenomenon of debunked ideas guiding the beliefs of a group — What is QAnon? — It's not easy to describe, but one thing we know to be true: It's not a conspiracy theory — it's bigger.
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The Guardian:
UK deliveries of The Sun, The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, and FT were disrupted on Saturday after climate activists blockaded two News Corp print sites — Play Video — The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has accused Extinction Rebellion of seeking “to limit the public's access to news” …
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Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
TikTok launches a marketing partner program to connect advertisers with companies specializing in ad campaign creation, measurement, and management — Here's some TikTok news that doesn't have to do with ByteDance being forced to sell the app's US operations.
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Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Warner Bros. has suspended The Batman filming in UK after Robert Pattinson tested positive for the coronavirus — Vanity Fair has learned the star came down with the virus just days after shooting resumed. — Robert Pattinson has tested positive for the coronavirus …
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Standard Media Index: cable news networks' primetime ad revenue rose to $158.7M in the period from May to July, a 31.5% increase over the three months prior — In this big political election year, cable TV news networks have seen 30%-plus prime-time advertising revenue growth — with Fox News Channel the strongest performer.
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Vogue B2B title Vogue Business, with an audience of 340K, launches a membership program for $220 a year with an advanced tier for $1,260 per year — Vogue Business has launched a membership program, after attracting an audience of 340,000 in the 18 months of its running.
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
VidAngel, the streaming service that skips “distasteful content”, agrees to settle its copyright dispute with Disney, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros., and Fox for $9.9M — VidAngel, the Utah-based streaming service that filters out offensive content for faith-and-family audiences …
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Sydney Bauer / Poynter:
A 2018 Atlantic story about transgender teenagers misgendered its cover model and, experts say, crossed ethical boundaries; the magazine says it “missed a step” — Mina Brewer was going to work on a summer day in New York City when something caught his eye in a Manhattan subway station.
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