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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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TIME says appearance of horns protruding from Trump's head on cover is unintentional, pointing to 35 other covers where the letter ‘M’ is partially obscured — “Horns. They gave him horns.” — After the initial Time selection of Donald Trump for Person of the Year ricocheted …
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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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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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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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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.

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 …
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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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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 …

On the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, a look at how the event was initially reported shows little has changed in terms of mistakes made covering major events — Nobody knew anything at first. The attack happened far out in the Pacific, on a small remote island.
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In rare interview, Pope Francis warns the press against being obsessed with scandal and says spreading disinformation is the greatest harm the media could do — Media that focus on scandals and spread fake news to smear politicians risk becoming like people who have a morbid fascination with excrement …
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News Corp Australia offers journalists voluntary redundancies, will use forced redundancies on 42 staff if quota is not reached, in effort to cut $40M in costs — Company says it will use forced redundancies, if necessary, to reach goal of cutting 42 full-time positions
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