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Sources: Trump fired Michael G. Flynn Jr., the son of senior security adviser Michael Flynn, for using Twitter to promote fake news related to Pizzagate — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday fired one of his transition team's staff members, Michael G. Flynn …
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TIME Magazine editor Nancy Gibbs on why Trump was chosen as Person of the Year, says he empowered a hidden electorate and framed tomorrow's political culture — This is the 90th time we have named the person who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year.
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Lydia Polgreen, editorial director of NYT Global, is named editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, succeeding Arianna Huffington — The New York Times' “rising star” becomes the site's second newsroom leader, following founder Arianna Huffington. — NEW YORK Lydia Polgreen …

FBI investigates joke about “destroying trump ballots” made on Twitter by the Huffington Post's Nick Baumann — Seriously? Seriously. — Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post — This is a story about how the FBI came to investigate a joke I tweeted about fake news.

Ipsos survey of 3,015 US adults shows fake news headlines fooled people about 75% of the time — Fake news headlines fool American adults about 75% of the time, according to a large-scale new survey conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs for BuzzFeed News. — The survey also found that people …
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YouTube has paid over $1B to the music industry in the last year, from advertising alone — In the last year, YouTube has paid out over $1 billion to the music industry from advertising alone, the company revealed on Tuesday. — Bolstered by music subscription revenue …

Google search app updated with distinct feeds for upcoming appointments and personalized news such as sports and entertainment, on Android now and iOS soon — Google Now is splitting in two — Google Now launched four years ago with a bold promise: instead of making you search for information you need …
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Apple debuts single sign-on for iOS and tvOS with 9 partners including Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, but is missing big names like Comcast, Charter, Verizon FiOS — But the list of companies supporting the feature at launch is pretty weak — The days of having to enter your cable account login details …
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Weather Channel hits back at Breitbart for using its video to cast doubt on climate change in story promoted online by U.S. House committee — The Weather Channel on Tuesday skewered Breitbart after one of its videos appeared in a story which aimed to cast doubt on the science of climate change.
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NPR's Asma Khalid on the difficulties of being a Muslim reporter covering the 2016 election, facing veiled threats and constant harassment — Sometime in early 2016 between a Trump rally in New Hampshire, where a burly man shouted something at me about being Muslim, and a series …
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Pandora unveils its on-demand, personalized music streaming service Premium, with launch expected in Q1 2017 — That Pandora was planning to launch a full fledged Spotify competitor was no secret. The company said as much last year when it bought the ashes of Rdio, which had filed for bankruptcy.
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Hacker News, the discussion site run by Y Combinator, is holding a Political Detox Week as an experiment, banning political content — Can social media even exist without political debate? What about trolls? Hacker News, the social news site run by Y Combinator, is trying to find out.
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