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Sources and documents reveal how Cambridge Analytica used harvested personal information from 50M Facebook profiles to build psychological profiles of US voters — LONDON — As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem.
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Paul Grewal / Facebook:
Facebook suspends Trump- and Brexit-affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica after reports it and affiliated psychologist lied about data retention — We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
How Facebook's old terms of service allowed Cambridge Analytica to get data on 50M people from just 270K users of an app that used Facebook Login — Facebook says it isn't at fault. — Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that helped Donald Trump get elected president …
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Sarah Jeong / The Verge:
A guide to American music copyright laws, which have enabled Wixen Publishing to sue Spotify for $1.6B and which have failed to respond to technological change — The hidden costs of streaming music — Spotify is finally gearing up to go public, and the company's February 28th filing …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Univision-hired consulting firm's preliminary recommendation calls for cuts of Fusion's budget by up to 35%; Fusion has 600 staff, ~$150M annual budget — Parent company Univision has hired a consulting firm to review the entire business and recommend budget reductions
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Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:
Reddit to launch native promoted posts on iOS on March 19, on Android in coming weeks; says mobile apps account for 41% of time spent across platforms — The company says its iOS and Android apps are now the most popular way for users to access Reddit content on mobile.
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Molly McHugh / The Ringer:
Digg to shut down Digg Reader, its barebones RSS reader, on March 26 — A requiem for a haven from algorithms and trending topics — On Wednesday, Digg announced that it will be shutting down Digg Reader on March 26. The RSS reader, for me and likely many others, was a godsend after the 2013 shuttering of Google Reader.
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The Wire:
Editor-in-chief of Indian newspaper The Tribune resigns just weeks after publishing government exposé; sources say paper's trustees are under govt. pressure — New Delhi: Harish Khare, editor-in-chief of The Tribune, the independent, Chandigarh-based newspaper known for punching above …
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Daniel D'Addario / TIME:
Fox's Shep Smith on separating news and opinion programming, quitting if the show changes to accommodate viewers, concerns about who would replace him, and more — In a Manhattan Fox News studio on a recent Tuesday in February, Shepard Smith sits ready to begin taping his 3 p.m. newscast.
James Cook / Business Insider:
YouTube Kids app suggested conspiracy theory videos in search results and related videos sections — - The YouTube Kids app is meant to filter out unsuitable content, but we found that it suggested that children watch conspiracy theory videos. — The app suggested several videos …
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Amanda Pfeffer / CBC News:
Radio-Canada reporter Antoine Trépanier arrested, not yet charged, for criminal harassment after requesting an interview with the subject of investigative story — Antoine Trépanier was arrested this week after a harassment complaint from an investigation suspect
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Felix Salmon / Recode:
As Reuters receives $10B over 30 years and retains editorial independence in Blackstone M&A deal, it should expand internationally and acquire digital news orgs — Reuters News just won the lottery. What will it do with all that money? — It's the biggest assignment in journalism …
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