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The Daily Beast:
Trump campaign manager, digital director, and son retweeted Russian-linked @TEN_GOP Twitter account near election; Michael Flynn Jr. retweeted account 34 times — Some of the Trump campaign's most prominent names and supporters, including Trump's campaign manager, digital director and son …
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Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
Twitter took 11 months after being notified by GOP to shut down a fake Twitter account with 136K+ followers run by a Russian troll farm, posing as Tennessee GOP — The account was one of hundreds created by Russia's Internet Research Agency and drew 136,000 followers by tweeting divisive messages …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Vogue, Vice to launch editorial collaboration Project Vs in early 2018; partnership continues trend of unlikely media alliances made to extend advertising reach — At first blush, Vogue and Vice would seem to go together as well as soda and mayonnaise. But in the world of advertising, their collaboration might prove quite tasty.
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Jezebel
Lauren Raab / Los Angeles Times:
Voice Media says LA Weekly is being sold to Semanal Media, a new company formed for the deal with unknown owners — LA Weekly, owned by Voice Media Group, is being sold to a new company. (Los Angeles Times) — LA Weekly's owner, Voice Media Group, has agreed to sell the alternative weekly newspaper …
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LA Weekly, @raju, LA Observed, @clarajeffery, @andyhermannla, LAist and The Wrap
John Koblin / New York Times:
Nielsen announces it is providing Netflix viewer data to clients, based on audio recognition in 44K homes in US; Netflix disputes accuracy — In the five years since Netflix started streaming original series like the Emmy-winning “House of Cards” and “Master of None,” the shows …
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@pakman, @rasmus_kleis, Variety, Netflix Media Center, Los Angeles Times, The Times & The Sunday Times, Jezebel, Detroit News, Mercury News, Bloomberg, Home Media Magazine, BGR, The Next Web, Variety, The A.V. Club, The New York Observer, TVWeek.com, Forbes, Multichannel News, TechCrunch, Fortune and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst agrees to acquire Rodale Inc., publisher of Men's Health and Runner's World; source says price was less than $225M — Deal is expected to close in early 2018 following government approval — Hearst has agreed to purchase Rodale Inc., the family-owned publisher …
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Folio, Adweek, New York Times and Rodale Inc
Ashley Gold / Politico:
Senators Warner and Klobuchar to introduce bill, cosponsored by McCain, to increase online political ad transparency, bring rules to parity with TV and radio — Sen. John McCain has become the first Republican to sign on to a draft bill from Democrats Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner …
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David Zax / Fast Company:
How niche bloggers profit from affiliate marketing fees and SEO consulting, and how a mattress company's lawsuit influenced reviews — One day in the spring of 2016 I mentioned to a friend that I needed a new mattress. Mine was a sunken hand-me-down that had become about as comfortable as concrete.
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@shiraovide, @mathewi and @harrymccracken
Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
VidAngel, which filters offensive content from movies, files for Chapter 11 after suit from Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros, won't shut down — VidAngel, the company that offered its users “clean” versions of existing movies, said today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Multichannel News, Variety and Forbes
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Italian government partners with digital companies, including Facebook, for a pilot program to train high school students to recognize fake news online — ROME — After reading the horrors in Dante's “Inferno,” Italian students will soon turn to the dangers of the digital age.
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Fortune
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
AG Jeff Sessions says he won't “make a blanket commitment” not to jail journalists, says DoJ tries to find alternatives to “directly confronting a media person” — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Wednesday that he reserves the right to jail journalists, “if we have to.”
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@nickochsnerwbtv, Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable, Fortune, @aliwatkins, @susanpage, @pierre, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Ross Benes / Digiday:
Advertisers' increased sensitivity to racist, fake and Trump news makes it harder for publishers to sell programmatic ads around political coverage — Viral stories about Donald Trump are great for comScore bragging rights, but they can be difficult for publishers to monetize.
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