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10:20 AM ET, December 6, 2016

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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
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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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
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 …
Facebook:
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.
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 real-life consequences of a made-up conspiracy theory swirling around a popular D.C. pizzeria became all too real when a gunman walked into the venue Sunday afternoon.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
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 …
Discussion: bookforum.com, Mashable and Mediaite
Sensor Tower Blog:
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.
Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
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 …
Discussion: @mathewi and VentureBeat
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Village Voice names former Harper's Bazaar executive editor Stephen Mooallem Editor-in-Chief, will focus on editorial relaunch, print, and web redesign  —  The Village Voice, a once-iconic New York newspaper whose tumult in the last several years has overshadowed its journalism …
Ad Age:
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.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @bristei
 
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Ken Doctor / Politico:
The New York Times may have added as many as 170K subscribers since the election, sometimes at a rate of more than 10K a day, up from 600 pre-election
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Ex-Breitbart reporter Patrick Howley claimed on Facebook he planted hecklers at Clinton rallies while working at the site, later deleted his post
Discussion: The Wrap
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova, who co-founded a news site, warns journalists that under Trump, the US could become like Russia
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
Facebook has no interest in fixing the fake news problem because doing so would lower user engagement which, in turn, would impact on its ad revenue
 

 
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Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claims better alignment with human preferences and math reasoning than earlier 2.5 VL models

Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg:
eToro files for an IPO, with plans to list on the Nasdaq, and reports 2024 revenue of $12.6B, about 96% of which was from cryptoassets, and net income of $192M

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI updates Advanced Voice Mode to make ChatGPT “more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative” for paying users, and interrupt all users less often

 
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