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12:20 PM ET, February 19, 2018

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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
President Trump uses tweets on Russian ad spending from Facebook ads VP Rob Goldman to call reporters covering election interference the “Fake News Media”  —  President Trump approvingly passed along comments from Facebook ads VP Rob Goldman on Saturday, using Goldman's remarks …
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Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Facebook says it will mail postcards to would-be buyers of election-related ads mentioning federal candidates, will have codes to verify identity and location  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will start using postcards sent by U.S. mail later this year to verify the identities …
CNBC:
US indicts 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities, including Internet Research Agency, in Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections  —  - Special counsel Robert Mueller said a grand jury had indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.
New York Times:
Sources: how American Media Inc., which owns The National Enquirer, Star, Us Weekly, and Radar, helped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen bury scandals  —  As accounts of past sexual indiscretions threatened to surface during Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign, the job of stifling potentially …
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Q&A with John Oliver: How Last Week Tonight tries to limit Trump coverage, does segments that don't feel timely, and how it satirizes controversy  —  The world keeps changing, and “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” keeps staying the same.  As it begins its fifth season on Sunday …
Discussion: USA Today
May Jeong / Wired:
Kim Wall's friend tries to find out how she died, profiles the man accused of her murder, and recounts conversations about the dangers faced by female reporters  —  Kim Wall went for a ride on a submarine, hoping to write a story about a maker of “extreme machines.”  She never did.
Shawn Musgrave / Politico:
How 4chan trolls organized to spread misinformation about Florida shooter's ties to a white supremacist group; ADL, ABC, AP, and others spread the false story  —  ABC, AP and others ran with false information on shooter's ties to extremist groups.  —  Following misrepresentations …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Following changes to News Feed, publishers including the NYT and BuzzFeed are experiencing reported declines in traffic from Facebook of 6-14%  —  Just a month after Facebook said it'd show less news in its news feed, news publishers are already feeling the brunt, multiple data sources show.
The Guardian:
The Guardian appoints Jim Waterson, political editor of BuzzFeed UK since 2013, as media editor; he will lead on all media coverage across print and digital  —  Guardian News & Media is pleased to announce that Jim Waterson has been appointed media editor.  He will lead on all media coverage …
Discussion: Press Gazette and @jimwaterson
Robert Feder:
Mark Konkol forced out on Saturday as executive editor of alt-weekly The Chicago Reader, following controversy over front cover  —  Mark Konkol, who promised to “set a new vibe, take risks and make waves” at the Chicago Reader, was forced out Saturday as executive editor of the alternative weekly …
 
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Katharine Schwab / Co.Design:
ProPublica reporter outlines how they are developing their own machine learning algorithms and chatbots as investigative tools against big tech companies
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Apple and Kevin Durant's Thirty Five Media to develop a scripted drama; NBA's Tony Parker, Blake Griffin, Steve Nash also have scripted projects in the works
Discussion: San Bernardino Sun
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The shift to a reader-sustained business model means subscription cancellations and reader boycotts will have a bigger impact on revenue and possibly coverage
Discussion: SPLICETODAY.com
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
At the Digital News Initiative Summit on Thursday, Google previewed a “Subscribe with Google” feature in Google Play for publishers who use paywalls
Aoife White / Bloomberg:
Belgian court rules Facebook is illegally collecting user data via cookies on third party sites, must remove data, threatens €250K/day fines for noncompliance
 

 
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

Kate Kelly / New York Times:
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business

The Baltimore Banner:
Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments

 
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