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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
WaPo corrects and removes portions of two articles from 2017 and 2019 that identified a Belarusian American businessman as a key source of the Steele dossier — The Washington Post on Friday took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN, which has long claimed the Steele dossier was at least partly corroborated, has not said whether it still stands by that reporting — A week ago, CNN covered the indictment of Igor Danchenko, the primary source for the discredited Trump-Russia dossier compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
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@sulliview, @realslokhova, @ggreenwald and @davidfolkenflik
Adam B. Vary / Variety:
Disney+ Day, celebrating the streaming service's two-year anniversary by touting 45+ series, features, and specials, didn't deliver much news or amazing footage — The promotional cavalcade covered every section of the service — Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Disney animation and live action …
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Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers:
Instagram appears to be working on a feature that lets Live creators add moderators to their streams — Early last month, Instagram announced two new features for Live creators — Live Scheduling and Practice Mode. The features aim to help make life easier for creators on the platform …
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Instagram tests paying $10,000+ bonuses to select Reels creators, as part of a program announced in July
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Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Interview with Sam Lessin and YouTuber Marina Mogilko about a $1.7M investment in her, in exchange for 5% of her creator-related earnings for the next 30 years — She gets $1.7 million. Sam Lessin's venture firm gets 5% of her creator earnings for 30 years. “it's def not indentured servitude,” he says.
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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Taylor Swift releases a new copy of 2012's Red, the second album she has re-recorded to reclaim songs from investors holding rights to her original masters — Campaign to re-record old songs undercuts deal that acquired US musician's hit catalogue — When tussling with his record company in the 1990s …
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CNBC:
Myanmar court sentences US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison; he has been detained since May and faces two more charges in another court — - A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty …
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New York Times:
Documents show Project Veritas consulted lawyers to gauge how far beyond standard reporting it could go before breaking laws like the Espionage Act — Documents show how the conservative group worked with lawyers to gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices could go before running afoul of federal laws.
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Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Frndly TV, an online service that offers a skinny bundle with 30 family-focused live TV channels for $6.99/month and has 500,000+ subscribers — Started in 2019 by former Dish executives, Frndly TV has more than 500,000 subscribers — An internet-TV upstart catering …
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Dominion Voting sues Fox Corporation, after Fox News, which it sued earlier, declined to produce documents from Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch — - Voting company says Fox News won't produce Murdoch documents — Fox News has said its reports on voter fraud claims were legal
Maria Bustillos / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with Kyiv Post EIC Brian Bonner on what caused the paper's sudden shutdown, his relationship with the owner, the Post's future, and more — Since 2008 the English-language Kyiv Post, under the leadership of editor-in-chief Brian Bonner, has consistently uncovered corruption …
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Paris Martineau / The Information:
Sources: Amazon formed a PR team in 2016 to find 90%+ of media reports it deemed inaccurate within two hours of publication, and to obtain corrections — There was a time when Jeff Bezos barely cared about public relations. But after years of increasingly hostile media coverage …
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