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Journalism & Media
November 16, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:  Twitter labeled about 300,000 “potentially” misleading tweets in the past two weeks, a firm with ties to the RNC has explored buying Newsmax, and five facts about the QAnon conspiracy theories.
Top Stories

Twitter labeled 300,000 ‘potentially misleading’ election tweets
Noah Manskar / New York Post / Nov 13, 2020


Trump allies explored buyout of Newsmax TV as Fox News alternative [Subscription required]
Keach Hagey, Rebecca Ballhaus, Benjamin Mullin, Juliet Chung / The Wall Street Journal / Nov 15, 2020


5 facts about the QAnon conspiracy theories
Pew Research Center / Nov 16, 2020

About Misinformation

What happened to the Deepfake threat to the election?
Tom Simonite / Wired / Nov 16, 2020

Online Media

Why Matthew Yglesias left Vox
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic / Nov 13, 2020


‘A full-fledged cross-platform brand’: How BuzzFeed is expanding its Black vertical Cocoa Butter to YouTube, email
Tim Peterson / Digiday / Nov 13, 2020

Television News

Savannah Guthrie is feeling lucky
Sridhar Pappu / The New York Times / Nov 14, 2020


Fox News host Tucker Carlson apologizes for erroneously claiming a dead man voted in Georgia
Hannah Yasharoff / USA Today / Nov 15, 2020


Milwaukee Fox News anchor suspended for wishing Mitch McConnell died instead of Alex Trebek
Bruce Haring / Deadline / Nov 13, 2020

Press & Government

View: Trump’s media favorites battle for the Trump trophy
Tina Nguyen / Politico / Nov 14, 2020

International

Australia’s newspaper ownership is among the most concentrated in the world
Nick Evershed / The Guardian / Nov 13, 2020


View: The president vs. the American media
Ben Smith / The New York Times / Nov 15, 2020

 

The Daily Briefing of Media News is edited by Amy Mitchell and Katerina Eva Matsa and compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including: Michael Barthel, Jeffrey Gottfried, Maya Khuzam, Elisa Shearer, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker and Kirsten Worden.

 
 
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