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10:10 PM ET, March 11, 2018

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Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
Twitter has suspended several accounts, some with millions of followers, that allegedly engaged in tweet stealing and “tweetdecking”, mass-retweeting each other  —  The Tweetdeckoning is nigh.  —  @Dory, @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue, Girl Code/@reiatabie, Common White Girl/@commonwhitegiri …
Dan Mitchell / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT's Farhad Manjoo tweeted an average of 15x a day for two months while he was supposedly unplugged from social media to get news from print  —  So many writers have produced “I went offline, and here is what I learned” stories that they became a tedious cliché years ago.
Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip:
Study: reporters driving Facebook engagement come from hyper-partisan sources like Breitbart and the Daily Wire; two in the top 50 write for fake news sites  —  With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
Discussion: @jason_kint
April Glaser / Slate:
Investigations reveal discussion groups, online communities, and user-made games on Steam that glorify school shooters and mass shootings  —  As the country continues to debate gun violence in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, we've seen some of the usual misdirected discussion of whether video games bear some responsibility.
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with YouTube's chief business officer, Robert Kyncl, on managing the Logan Paul controversy, accusations that YouTube is politically biased, and more  —  “We should have done better,” the chief business officer says of how the company handled the star's widely condemned vlog …
Discussion: Polygon
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Inside The Globe and Mail's Lab 351, an in-house incubator that allows employees to pitch and build out new ideas for solving the organization's problems  —  A driving principle for the incubator is to make it so “ideas can bubble up from the bottom, or the middle, or the top” of the organization.
Deborah Copaken / The Atlantic:
Freelancer charts harassment by former New York Observer editor Ken Kurson and the Observer's lack of formal complaint process for non-staff members  —  1. Land a job.  At a new online magazine for approximately the same salary you earned in 1992, but whatever.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Tronc's new publisher Ross Levinsohn has a history of large expenses, lavish parties, and persuading corporate employers to buy startups founded by his friends  —  Editor's note: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive.  —  One of the nation's most important newspaper companies …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Quartz debuts a Facebook Messenger bot that delivers news, introduces readers to Quartz Obsessions, and more, after good responses to its Quartzy chatbot  —  I feel like I'm back in 2016, because Quartz on Thursday announced the launch of its Facebook Messenger chat bot …
Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
Facebook gets exclusive rights to stream 25 MLB afternoon games, Facebook's first major US sports league exclusive; sources estimate price at $30-$35M  —  Social network is said to pay $30 million to $35 million  —  First time a major U.S. league has given Facebook exclusivity
 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March
 
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