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7:00 PM ET, February 21, 2018

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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
YouTube and Facebook remove conspiracy videos claiming Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg was an actor but, in many cases, only after promoting them  —  - YouTube promoted a video featuring a conspiracy theory claiming that one of the survivors of the school shooting last week in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The outspoken Parkland students inherently understand how to counteract pro-Trump media, stripping conspiracy theorists and critics of power by mocking them  —  On Monday night, the pro-Trump media set its sights on a new political enemy: young adult survivors of gun violence.
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft was pulled from social media censorship panel at CPAC after Gateway Pundit shared theories without evidence about shooting survivors  —  A speaker has been pulled from a panel planned to coincide with the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media is laying off 50 employees and offering reassignments to 12 others, with the cuts mainly affecting SB Nation, Curbed, Racked, and video services team  —  The cuts, which mainly targeted social video teams, were announced by CEO Jim Bankoff on Wednesday morning.
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Newsweek:
Newsweek gave 10 pages of free print ads to a New York county where Olivet University was creating a campus, showing more Newsweek-Olivet ties amid DA probe  —  Note from the Editors: As we were reporting this story, Newsweek Media Group fired Newsweek Editor Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li …
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Yoel Roth / Twitter:
Twitter updates API guidelines to limit simultaneous actions across accounts, such as “any form of automation” to post “substantially similar” content  —  Keeping Twitter safe and free from spam is a top priority for us.  One of the most common spam violations …
Paris Martineau / The Outline:
Medium suspends the accounts of alt-right personalities Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and Laura Loomer, after updating policy to tackle disinformation  —  By far the biggest change made by Medium is the addition of a section called “Related Content,” which reads “We do not allow posts …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish says its Sling TV service had 2.21M subscribers in Q4 2017, a 47% YoY increase from 1.5M, the first time its broken out the numbers  —  Sling TV, Dish Network's internet-delivered skinny bundle, stood at 2.21 million subscribers as of the end of last year — the first time the satellite operator …
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Sonam Rai / Reuters:   Boosted by $1.2B benefit from US tax law reforms, Dish reported net income of $1.39B for Q4 2017 and added 39K pay-tv subs including 75K reactivations
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
FCC filing: Sinclair has buyers lined up for New York and Chicago TV stations to meet FCC ownership limits, would keep running the stations via service contract  —  Sinclair Broadcast Group plans to sell Tribune Media's TV stations in New York and Chicago to comply with FCC ownership limits …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Facebook signs music licensing deal with Europe's ICE Services, covering 290K rights holders for music used on Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, and Messenger  —  Facebook today took its latest step towards making good on paying out royalties to music rightsholders around tracks that are used across its multiple platforms and networks.
 
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Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
David Glasser, the former President and COO of The Weinstein Co., who was fired last week, will file a lawsuit against TWC and its board members seeking $85M
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
How a lack of diverse staffs, the hope for access, or a goal of partisan balance may have led reporters to cast John Kelly as a moderating White House force
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