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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
At a rally in Montana, Trump praised Greg Gianforte for assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs during Gianforte's campaign for Congress in 2017 — President's comments at Montana rally in praise of violence against US journalist come amid international outcry over Khashoggi — Play Video
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BuzzFeed News:
Tim Cook calls for a retraction of Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story: “There is no truth in their story about Apple. They need to do the right thing” — “I feel they should retract their story. There is no truth in their story about Apple. They need to do that right thing."
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces partnership with Eventbrite to sell concert tickets on artists' video channels in US, says it now covers more than 70% of US ticketing market — YouTube is extending its ticketing initiative, already live with Ticketmaster, with the new addition of Eventbrite.
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
As Facebook promotes its “war room” and efforts to fight interference, a study of disinformation on WhatsApp during Brazil's election shows more could be done — Corporation shows off room of engineers, data scientists and other experts but offers reporters few new specifics
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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
SiriusXM partners with Amazon to offer trial 3-month subscriptions to Echo Dots buyers and Echo Dot speakers to people who become subscribers — (Reuters) - Satellite radio company Sirius XM Holdings Inc is teaming up with Amazon.com in its push into listeners' homes to move beyond its stronghold inside vehicles.
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NBC News:
Source: Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts for violating spam rules; the accounts had posted pro-Saudi Arabia tweets about the disappearance of Khashoggi — Twitter became aware of some of the bots on Thursday when NBC News presented the company with evidence of coordinated activity.
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Erik Wemple / @erikwemple:
After US treasury secretary pulled out of conference in Saudi Arabia, Fox Business Network follows by announcing it will cancel sponsorship and participation
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Turner to shut down digital studio division Super Deluxe, cites duplication with other units of WarnerMedia — AT&T's pruning of WarnerMedia continues: Turner announced that it is killing off Super Deluxe, its digital studio division. — “Turner is proud of the unique brand Super Deluxe …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Vice's London office had a team working on material promoting Saudi Arabia in partnership with Saudi publishing group SRMG; deal is now under review — PR agency Freud's, the Independent, Vice and Tony Blair Institute for Global Change among those with links
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Sheelah Kolhatkar / New Yorker:
How Sinclair's focus on small markets led to it becoming a conservative media empire, with more stations in swing states than any other company — The company has achieved formidable reach by focussing on small markets where its TV stations can have a big influence.
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Charlie Amter / Variety:
SoundCloud says DJs will be able to mix all songs from its catalogue starting in 2019 as it partners with Serato, Virtual DJ, and others — SoundCloud is on a roll. Hot on the heels of an announcement earlier this month allowing all users of the open audio platform to tap …
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Variety:
CBS names Showtime CEO David Nevins as chief creative officer for all of CBS, in charge of programming, marketing, and research — David Nevins has been named chief creative officer of CBS Corporation effective immediately, the company announced Thursday. — The announcement …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
The Saturday Evening Post puts its archive online for the first time, access costs $15 per year and includes a subscription to the print magazine — The Saturday Evening Post for the first time in its nearly 200- year existence has its storied history available digitally.
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