Mediagazer: Cambridge Analytica denies Facebook's claim that it accessed data on 87M Facebook users, claims it “licensed data for no more than 30M people” (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

1:00 PM ET, April 5, 2018

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Cambridge Analytica denies Facebook's claim that it accessed data on 87M Facebook users, claims it “licensed data for no more than 30M people” — Cambridge Analytica is refuting a report by Facebook today that said Cambridge Analytica improperly attained data on up to 87 million users.

Discussion: Facebook, Fortune, Yourstory.com, 9to5Google, BBC, Recode, BuzzFeed, Mashable, Mumbrella, Facebook and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Eleanor Dickinson / Mumbrella Asia:

Facebook statistics show data from 3.6M+ users in Asia, ~1M in UK, and 700K+ in Mexico may be among the 87M who had information analyzed by Cambridge Analytica — Facebook has this morning revealed that more than 3.6 million users its service in Asia may have had their information improperly shared …

Discussion: Media Matters for America and The Guardian, more at Techmeme »

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Mark Zuckerberg refutes earlier reports, says Facebook will make GDPR controls available globally, notes different markets, laws may require different formats — Mark Zuckerberg refuted a Reuters story yesterday that said Facebook would not bring Europe's General Data Protection Regulation privacy safeguards around the world.

Sydney Ember / New York Times:

Sinclair CEO David Smith defends his company's “must-run” segments on media bias, likens them to the late-night shows other networks air on local affiliates — David D. Smith, the chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, says the media is getting his company all wrong.

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

A Sinclair TV producer at KHGI in Nebraska, Justin Simmons, resigned March 26 in protest of what he calls the company's “obvious bias” — Ex-Sinclair news director: We had must-run pieces — A morning TV producer at a Sinclair-owned station in Nebraska has resigned in protest …

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Q&A with Rob Byers, the laid-off son of a coal miner who worked at WVA newspapers for over 26 years, on covering coal and politicians, and uncertainty in media — And Rob Byers is out of a job. — Two days after graduating from West Virginia University in 1991, Rob Byers joined …

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Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Twitter says it suspended 274K accounts for promoting terrorism in last six months of 2017, bringing total to 1.2M since August 2015 — It suspended more than 274,000 accounts just in the last six months of 2017. — Twitter suspended more than 1.2 million accounts that were promoting terrorism …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

MoviePass parent company acquires Moviefone from Oath for $15M; Oath will continue selling Moviefone's digital ad inventory — MoviePass is saying “Hello — and welcome to Moviefone!" — Helios and Matheson Analytics, the majority owner of MoviePass, announced the acquisition of Moviefone from Verizon's Oath subsidiary.

Discussion: Adweek, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Business Wire, Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter and @tim_stevens, more at Techmeme »

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Conde Nast has a median pay gap of 23.3% despite a female majority at every pay level; The Economist Group's 29.5% median pay gap is the highest in UK media — Conde Nast has the largest mean gender pay gap favouring men among all UK publishers and broadcasters, but, when the median is taken …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, National Union of Journalists, @jamesrbuk, gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk, Digiday and WIRED UK

Mike Ananny / Columbia Journalism Review:

Report on Facebook's fact-checking partnerships examines the struggles of tech companies teaming up with news orgs, details distrust and lack of transparency — Facebook and five US news and fact-checking organizations—ABC News, the Associated Press, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and Snopes …

Discussion: @writemegwrite, @jon_allsop, @michaelbkelley, @grahamstarr, @alkapdc, @seanrobinsontnt, @alaphia, @cwarzel, @bgrueskin, @towcenter, @clancynewyork and @jayrosen_nyu

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

NBCU debuts CFlight metric, which adds up exposure via broadcast, cable, and streaming and counts completed views of commercials, as audience metrics multiply — - Jason Chaffetz, Katie Pavlich, Brian Kilmeade and Pete Hegseth to Sub for Laura Ingraham on Fox News

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline, AdExchanger and FierceCable

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Interview with Renée Kaplan, FT head of audience engagement, on appealing to more female subscribers via a newsletter, encouraging potential op-eds, and more — Only 20 percent of the FT's subscribers were women. Renée Kaplan, the paper's head of audience engagement, is doing a lot of things to change that.

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