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“This CLEF cohort will use Hearken and GroundSource to cover a diverse range of topics, such as the employment boom in Racine County, Wisconsin thanks to a new plant being built by Taiwanese telecom giant Foxconn (Racine County Eye) and the upcoming midterm elections (City Limits, The Colorado Independent, The Day, etc.).”

“In a pair of tweets posted before 6 a.m., the president said the results included only ‘the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media.'”

“For $15 a month or $150 a year, readers will have access to a twice-weekly newsletter that summarizes and analyzes the rapidly shifting world of cryptocurrencies and the decentralized accounting technology that supports them.”

“After a year on The Verge’s staff as a senior writer, Sarah recently joined The New York Times Editorial Board to write about technology issues. The move kicked off a wave of outrage and controversy as a group of trolls selectively took Sarah’s old tweets out of context to inaccurately claim that she is a racist. This prompted a further wave of unrelenting racist harassment directed at Sarah, a wave of coverage examining her tweets, and a final wave of coverage about the state of outrage generally. This is all deeply ironic because Sarah laid out exactly how these bad-faith tactics work in The Internet of Garbage.”

“A job posting on LinkedIn for the managing editor of the new BuzzFeed site said the position would have ‘a dotted line to teams across BuzzFeed, from tech to sales to affiliate to editorial.'”

Google search engine chief Ben Gomes: “This is a world none of us have ever lived in before. We need to be focused on what we want to enable, and then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.”