Advertising on Facebook? You have the option to target your ad to reach the audience YOU want to reach. But, what happens when your choices could constitute breaking the law?
Julia Angwin & Terry Parris, Jr., ProPublica: “Facebook lets advertisers exclude users by race”
Gillian B. White, The Atlantic: “How Facebook’s ad tool fails to protect civil rights”
CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile
Hadas Gold, POLITCO: “CNN severs ties with DonnaBrazile”
Dylan Byers, CNN Money: “Donna Brazile out at CNN amid leaks to Clinton campaign”
Chris Ariens, TV Newser: “Donna Brazile may have sent debate question to Clinton camp; resigns from CNN”
Alex Griswold, Mediaite: “New email shows Donna Brazile also gave Clinton questions before CNN presidential debate”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “With question-leaking, CNN has a scandal on its hands”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “White House press secretary Josh Earnest articulates precisely why Donna Brazile shouldn’t have been working for CNN”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Donna Brazile appears to have sent CNN debate question to Clinton campaign”
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “CNN parts ways with Donna Brazile, a Hillary Clinton supporter”
Comey’s Friday afternoon announcement
Adam Goldman & Alan Rappeport, New York Times: “Emails in Anthony Weiner inquiry jolt Hillary Clinton’s campaign”
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt & William K. Rashbuam, New York Times: “Justice Dept. strongly discouraged Comey on move in Clinton email case”
Joseph Tanfani, Los Angeles Times: “Clinton campaign to FBI’s Comey: Now that you’ve opened the door on emails, reveal more”
Anita Kumar & David Lightman, Kansas City Star: “Clinton campaign lashes out at FBI over email inquiry”
Greg Sargent, Washington Post: “James Comey needs to clean up his mess. Here’s what we need to know.”
Ed Mazza, Huffington Post: “Glenn Beck calls James Comey’s letter ‘One of the most irresponsible things to ever happen’”
Kelly & Gingrich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlPe9C8uM-o
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “MegynKelly’s killer moment with Gingrich wasa welcome return tobadassery”
Michelle Goldberg, Slate: “Has the Republican feminist awakening begun?”
David Folkenflik, NPR: “Kelly’s clash with Gingrich on Fox reveals rift beyond Trump”
Christopher Mele, New York Times: “Newt Gingrich and Megyn Kelly get into bizarre exchange on livetv”
Matt Wilstein, The Daily Beast: “Newt Gingrich accuses Megyn Kelly of being ‘fascinated with sex,’ gets obliterated”
Jim Rutenberg, New York Times: “MegynKelly’s pivotal moment in post-Ailes era at Fox News”
Mark Joyella, TV Newser: “WSJ: Megyn Kelly seeks new salary above $20 million”
Going behind the Trump curtain
Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg, Bloomberg Businessweek: “Inside the Trump bunker, with 12 days to go”
DDoS attacks: What are they? Why do they matter?
Susan McGregor, Columbia Journalism Review: “Why DDoS attacks matter for journalists”
IJNet: “How DDoS attacks affect journalists – and why that matters”
Nicky Woolf, The Guardian: “DDoSattack that distrupted internet was largest of its kind in history, experts say”
Tim Starks, POLITICO: “Ramifications of the big DDoS attack”
Gannett drops bid for Tronc
Paul Barbagallo, Bloomberg: “Gannett terminates talks to buyTronc”
Leslie Picker & Sydney Ember, New York Times: “Gannett abandons effort to buy newpaper publisherTronc”
Antoine Gara, Forbes: “Trick or Tronc: Former Tribune Company plummets after Gannett bails from merger”
Joshua Jamerson, Wall Street Journal: “Gannett ends its attempt to buy Chicago Tribune publisher Tronc”
Out with Outbrain
Sapna Maheshwari & John Herman, New York Times: “Publishers are rethinking those ‘Around the Web’ ads”
Laura Hazard Owen, Nieman Journalism Lab: “Slate and The New Yorker dump Outbrain and Taboola links (but way more publishers still use them)”
Kate Cox, Consumerist: “Some online publishers backing away from those fake ‘Around the Web’ ads
