Mediagazer: After Waymo asks court to seal courtroom for large portions of Uber trial, multiple media orgs, including Gizmodo, NYT, and WSJ, file brief to keep it open (Kate Conger/Gizmodo)

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Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:

4chan thread wrongly identifying a person as Las Vegas shooter was promoted as “top story” in Google search results for his name — Geary Danley was not the gunman in Las Vegas who killed at least 50 people late Sunday. But for hours on the far-right Internet …

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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:

Facebook's Safety Check page for Las Vegas shooting promoted sites giving misinformation like Alt-Right News and End Times Headlines; Google highlighted 4Chan — In the wake of the deadly shooting in Las Vegas last night that left more than 50 dead and hundreds injured …

Matthew Sheffield / Salon:
Far-right blog Gateway Pundit, which has White House press credentials, wrongly identified a man as the Las Vegas shooter in an article

Discussion: Engadget, Washington Post, @ryanchittum and Fast Company

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook to hire 1000 more ad reviewers and make all the ads each organization buys visible to users, not just the targeted ones, to fight election interference — Facebook today handed over to congressional investigators 3,000 ads that were bought by a Russian company to influence U.S. politics.

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Elliot Schrage / Facebook:

About 10M people saw Russian ads on Facebook, 44% of ads were seen before Nov. 8, 50% of ads were for $3 or less; for 99% of the ads, less than $1,000 was spent — What was in the ads you shared with Congress? How many people saw them? — Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social …

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New York Times:

Sources: Russian efforts included FB pages named Secured Borders, LGBT United, Defend the 2nd, alongside formerly reported fake Blacktivist and Muslim accounts — SAN FRANCISCO — The Russians who posed as Americans on Facebook last year tried on quite an array of disguises.

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Facebook says it will disclose the contents of 3,000+ Russian-linked US political ads to Congress on Monday, has no plans to publicly release

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Pew Research Center:

Study of 3K stories in 24 outlets: 17% of coverage focused on Trump's political skill, 14% immigration; orgs with right-leaning audiences cited fewer sources — During the early days of the administration, similar storylines covered across outlets, but types of sources heard from and the assessments of Trump's actions differed

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Sahil Patel / Digiday:

Some publishers say Facebook mid-roll video ads lead to little income; one described making just $500 on 20M views, including non-monetized views — Six months in, Facebook's test of mid-roll ad breaks within live and on-demand videos is driving scant revenue for publishers.

Discussion: @whatthebit and @kerrymflynn, more at Techmeme »

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:

Google ends controversial “first click free” policy, won't demote paywalled news sites in search results, and will offer new tools to help sell subscriptions — Search engine drops controversial ‘first-click free’ program — Company won't demote paywalled news sites in search results

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft discontinues Groove Music Pass service, effective December 31, partners with Spotify, which it will recommend to Windows users instead — Microsoft rebranded Xbox Music to Groove Music two years ago, in a bid to make its music streaming service more relevant to consumers.

Discussion: Windows Experience Blog, Business Insider, Neowin, Gizmodo, Variety, BetaNews, ZDNet, The Next Web and On MSFT, more at Techmeme »

Kate Conger / Gizmodo:

After Waymo asks court to seal courtroom for large portions of Uber trial, multiple media orgs, including Gizmodo, NYT, and WSJ, file brief to keep it open — Since Waymo sued Uber in February, alleging a massive theft of trade secrets related to its self-driving car technology …

Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

US Senate confirms Ajit Pai for another term at FCC in 52-41 vote — Democrats objected to Pai's re-nomination, but Republicans had his back. — The US Senate today gave Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai another term on the FCC. — Pai would have had to leave the FCC …

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable, Fast Company and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

David Folkenflik / NPR:

In the first few days of her new role at NBC as Today's host, Megyn Kelly struggled to move away from her past gig at Fox News, and alienated celeb guests — In one of Megyn Kelly's first episodes as the newest, brightest star on NBC's Today show, a crewman audibly swore as he accidentally wandered …

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