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9:05 PM ET, June 6, 2017

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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
WikiLeaks offers a $10K bounty to get Intercept reporter fired for trying to verify leaked report without removing evidence incriminating leaker  —  WikiLeaks offered a $10,000 bounty Monday aimed at getting a reporter for The Intercept fired, following the arrest of a government contractor …
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The Intercept:
Intercept statement on FBI affidavit and search warrant for Reality Winner: documents contain unproven assertions, warranting skepticism  —  On June 5 The Intercept published a story about a top-secret NSA document that was provided to us completely anonymously.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Reality Winner didn't follow the Intercept's guidelines for leakers, but reporters may have been clumsy in handling the documents  —  This June 6, 2013, file photo, shows the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days …
Edward Snowden / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Prosecution of a source without weighing the public harm or benefit of a journalistic leak shows the basic flaw in the Espionage Act  —  The Justice Department released an indictment of twenty five year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner yesterday, just a few hours after the Intercept posted …
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
How authorities used search history, email records, and printer tracking dots to bring charges against accused leaker Reality Winner  —  Criminal investigations into national security leaks tend to be long, complicated and delicate affairs.  Sources generally cover their tracks …
NBC News:
Source: Reality Leigh Winner is accused of leaking document published by The Intercept
U.S. Department of Justice:
DOJ charges federal government contractor Reality Leigh Winner with removing classified material from government facility and mailing it to a news outlet
Knight First Amendment Institute:
In letter, Knight First Amendment Institute demands President unblock Twitter accounts of critics, calling @realDonaldTrump a “designated public forum”  —  NEW YORK — In a letter sent today to President Trump, the Knight First Amendment Institute asked the President to unblock …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
MediaRadar shows Breitbart ads down nearly 90% in three months with 26 brands advertising in May down from 242 in March  —  Six months ago, Breitbart was riding the wave of the election, plotting an international expansion to provide a platform to spread far-right, populist views in Europe.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook announces support for closed captions on Live broadcasts, says pubs can create their own via Live API or use a third-party captioning firm  —  Over 38 million people in the US are deaf or hard-of-hearing, and Facebook wants them to be able to watch the 1 in 5 of its videos that are broadcast live.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A look at key Apple updates for publishers, including HomePod, Safari's autoplay-blocking, iOS 11, Apple News-Siri sync, and more  —  Apple, like Google, is using its position in the browser market to try to control elements of the advertising market.  —  Apple went the first five full months …
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Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline:
The New York Times crossword continues to use words its own style guide lists as offensive in both clues and answers  —  Who is the New York Times crossword talking to?  —  Hello, friends.  Leah is on vacation, so I, Adrianne Jeffries, am writing this week's Letter.
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Amazon, Mozilla, Reddit, Y Combinator, Kickstarter, Etsy, Vimeo, and other internet companies are staging an online protest for net neutrality on July 12  —  Some of the Internet's biggest names are banding together for a “day of action” to oppose the Federal Communications Commission …
 
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