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11:00 AM ET, May 10, 2016

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Tom Stocky / Facebook:

Facebook VP of search Tom Stocky: we found no evidence contractors manipulated Trending Topics to suppress stories of interest to conservatives — My team is responsible for Trending Topics, and I want to address today's reports alleging that Facebook contractors manipulated Trending Topics …

Discussion: @trippenbach, FishbowlNY, TIME, BBC, The Week, Fast Company, @raju and Recode

Poynter:

Poynter media ethicist Kelly McBride says Facebook has a responsibility to be more transparent about how it curates news — Gizmodo ignited a social media firestorm today when it reported that curators for Facebook's “trending” section regularly put the kibosh on right-leaning news stories.

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Nick Statt / The Verge:

Facebook says it has “rigorous guidelines” in place to protect neutrality and consistency of its Trending Topics section, in response to Gizmodo report — Facebook has responded to allegations in a Gizmodo report that its contract news curators actively censored stories …

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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Right-leaning advocacy site RedState, named as a site avoided by Facebook's human curators, says it has not seen instances of its content being suppressed

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Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Ex-Facebook news curators describe suppressing conservative news, being instructed to include non-trending stories, removing news about Facebook itself

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and AI Monitor's Laura Rozen dispute article in The New York Times Magazine claiming they helped “retail” US-Iran nuclear deal — The New York Times Magazine editor defended the description, though he acknowledged the journalists should have been contacted for comment.

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Amazon unveils Amazon Video Direct, open to any video creator, with four ways to earn money: per-hour royalty, add-on subs, digital rent/sale, or ad-supported — Initial partners include Conde Nast, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Machinima, StyleHaul — Amazon, which touts itself as Earth's biggest store …

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

Periscope makes broadcasts permanent by default and introduces search — It's been a month now since Facebook rolled-out a dramatically improved design for live video — a design that borrowed liberally from Twitter-owned Periscope. Facebook's enormous audience, combined with its willingness …

Discussion: Periscope, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, CNET, Mashable, Broadcasting & Cable, The Drum, BetaNews, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Pocket-lint, Fortune, Variety, iMore and Business Insider

Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

Channel 4 escapes privatisation after Downing Street intervention — Channel 4 will escape full privatisation following an intervention from Downing Street, The Daily Telegraph understands. — A series of other major reforms of the state-owned broadcaster remain under consideration, however, senior Government sources revealed.

Discussion: Guardian, The Drum, C21Media, Politico and Guardian

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Viacom board considers reducing Sumner Redstone's pay again, after cutting it from $13.2M in FY2014 to $2M in FY2015 — Dismissed lawsuit over media mogul's mental capacity highlighted his health problems — The board of Viacom Inc. is considering whether to cut the pay …

Discussion: Variety, @keachhagey and Wall Street Journal

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Judge dismisses mental competency lawsuit brought against Viacom's controlling shareholder, Sumner Redstone, by ex-girlfriend

Discussion: Forbes, The Wrap, Talking Biz News, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Financial Times, New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Wrap, CNBC and Reuters

Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:

McClatchy moving IT work to India's Wipro; sources say the move affects 120-150 jobs — The McClatchy Company, which operates a major chain of newspapers in the U.S., is moving IT work overseas. — The number of affected jobs, based on employee estimates, range from 120 to 150.

Discussion: Indy Week, Computerworld, @donlday, @dcgov, @jbphebus and @sharon000

Jasper Jackson / Guardian:

Online petition to fire BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg taken down after it draws abusive and misogynistic language — 38 Degrees director says campaign calling for BBC political editor to be sacked was hijacked by Twitter and Facebook users — Campaign group 38 degrees has taken …

Discussion: Guardian, @ukpoliticslive, @claireot, @georgetrefgarne, Telegraph, @lkblumenthal and @lonwon

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Founders of Philadelphia's Billy Penn to launch a site in Pittsburgh by end of summer, using recent Gannett investment — The founders of Billy Penn, a local news startup in Philadelphia, are launching a second site in Pennsylvania's second biggest city, Pittsburgh.

Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:

Egypt arrests 4 members of a street satirical group — CAIRO (AP) — Police have arrested four members of a satirical street group that mocked Egypt's president and his supporters in video clips posted online, the latest in an escalating crackdown on dissent that lays bare the government's diminishing tolerance for criticism.

Discussion: BBC

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