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7:00 AM ET, November 22, 2019

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Shepard Smith, the anchor who left Fox News in early October, announced Thursday that he will donate $500K to the Committee to Protect Journalists  —  The former anchor made his first public appearance since his abrupt departure from Fox News, where he faced taunts from colleagues and President Trump.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter rolls out its “Hide Replies” feature to all users globally  —  Twitter's radical “Hide Replies” feature, one of the biggest changes to how Twitter works since the invention of the Retweet, is now available to Twitter's global user base.  The company says the feature …
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Former Fox News exec Ken LaCorte hired Macedonians to write inflammatory content for his websites; Facebook shut down his pages and staff accounts after inquiry  —  An investigation found that several sites owned by Ken LaCorte push inflammatory items — stories, petitions and the occasional conspiracy theory — to the public.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
PEN America report: 1,800 local print outlets have shut down in the US since 2004, leaving Americans uninformed and public officials not held to account  —  The loss of local news coverage in much of the United States has frayed communities and left many Americans woefully uninformed, according to a new report.
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Susan Wojcicki says YouTube is working to bring ads to edgier content and its new gaming policy will have fewer restrictions for violence in gaming  —  There's a difference between borderline and edgy content  —  YouTube is experimenting with placing advertisements for more mature audiences …
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
China's state media agency bought an ad on Facebook in which Bill Gates praises China, an example of how the country burnishes its image abroad  —  Xinhua News, China's largest state-run news agency, is currently buying ads on Facebook that feature a video of Bill Gates talking about China.
Poynter:
The International Fact-Checking Network will partner with Univision to elevate international fact-checking for Spanish-language audiences in the US  —  The Poynter Institute announces that its International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) will partner with Univision News to elevate international fact-checks …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Inside Spotify's plan to dominate audio by spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele, Mark Wahlberg and the Obamas  —  Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds …
Alexander Marrow / Reuters:
Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation on Thursday that could allow journalists to be labeled foreign agents if they get funding from abroad  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation on Thursday that will allow individual journalists …
Discussion: Associated Press
Thomas Germain / Consumer Reports:
How outdoor ad networks like Five Tier let clients plan and target billboard ads based on mobile phone data about passersby such as gender, age, race, and more  —  How the most intrusive parts of the web are expanding into the real world, complete with data collection and targeted ads
Discussion: Boing Boing
 
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Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook sought feedback from large Republican and Democratic political ad buyers about changing ad targeting audience size from 100 to a few thousand
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
ACLU files lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security for allegedly tracking and interrogating five photojournalists between 2018 and 2019
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Ronan Shields / Adweek:
Demand-side platform The Trading Desk joins independent ad tech coalition Prebid, making it a more attractive alternative to Google and Facebook
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
Ad measurement firm Integral Ad Science has acquired European ad tech firm ADmantX, which provides info on context and content of articles on which ads run
Scott Spencer / The Keyword:
Google announces new political ad rules, limits microtargeting to age, gender, and general location categories, will start enforcing them in UK within a week