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New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd says she should have “held back more” when criticizing tweets by the paper's journalists, but stands by her views — PUBLIC EDITOR ADDRESSES TIMES TWEET CRITICISM CRITICISM — Liz Spayd acknowledged that she may have gone too far in castigating …
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NYT public editor Liz Spayd told Tucker Carlson some tweets from NYT political reporters were “outrageous” and should be met with “kind of a consequence” — New York Times public editor Liz Spayd said Friday night that she believed certain tweets authored …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Media watchdog Media Matters promotes Angelo Carusone to president, announces it is shifting towards monitoring fake news, Breitbart, the alt-right, others — Liberal media-watchdog organization Media Matters is naming a new president and taking its coverage in a new direction …
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Analysis of news links in Trump tweets shows that Breitbart dominated, while traditional outlets like The Washington Post joined far-right sites as top sources — BuzzFeed News analyzed all the links Donald Trump tweeted since he launched his presidential campaign to determine where the president-elect gets his news.
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Google AMP, Facebook's Instant Articles, and Apple News make articles from fake news sites look the same as those from Bloomberg and The New York Times — If you asked Google who won the popular vote just after the election, there's a chance you would have been sent to a conspiracy blog with bogus results.
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At least four other businesses say they've received threats in connection with Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory promoted by a Trump ally and sites like Infowars — The Washington, D.C., pizzeria into which a man armed with an assault rifle strode on Sunday, allegedly to investigate for himself …
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
The shooter who attacked a pizzeria after fake news controversy likes Infowars and host Alex Jones on Facebook; InfoWars published many stories about Pizzagate
The shooter who attacked a pizzeria after fake news controversy likes Infowars and host Alex Jones on Facebook; InfoWars published many stories about Pizzagate
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PewDiePie tops Forbes list of highest-paid YouTube stars of 2016, earning $15M, driven by his series YouTube Red and sales of his book — Five years ago, Roman Atwood uploaded the first YouTube video, “Epic Cooler Prank!”, to his page. In the three-minute-long video …
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YouTuber PewDiePie threatened to delete his channel because fewer people are seeing his videos and suggested the site was penalising him because he's white — The Swedish YouTuber has said that he is going to delete his account because the video site has been penalising him and other YouTubers …
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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes says Democrats have been more of a threat to the First Amendment than Trump, does not believe Trump will alter it — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who counts CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. and TBS among the media companies in his portfolio, says that President-Elect Donald …
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Raleigh Agenda, an extension of local news and lifestyle startup Charlotte Agenda, is shutting down and laying off two staffers — RALEIGH — The Charlotte-based owner of the downtown-centric online publication Raleigh Agenda has laid off its staff and shuttered its Triangle outpost.
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To curb terrorist content, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube will create shared database identifying terrorist images/videos removed from their services — Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are coming together to help curb the spread of terrorist content online.

Netflix becomes top grossing iOS app in the US for the first time, as weekly net revenue grows to nearly $2.9M — Just over a year after Netflix began allowing iOS users to subscribe to its service via in-app purchases, the Netflix app has summited the Top Grossing Apps chart for iPhone on the U.S. App Store.
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Ad Age Editor Ken Wheaton steps down, after just over a year in the role; executive editor and deputy editor will oversee magazine until successor is named — Ad Age Editor Ken Wheaton will leave the publication at the end of the year to focus on his fiction writing, it was announced today.
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