To Silence Wikileaks, Did Hillary Clinton Propose a Drone Strike on Julian Assange? No : snopes.com

  Claim: Hillary Clinton proposed assassinating Julian Assange via drone strike to silence WikiLeaks. unproven Example: [Collected via e-mail and Twitter, October 2016] To Silence Wikileaks, #HillaryClinton Proposed Drone Strike on Julian Assange — report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 3, 2016 Origin:On 2 October 2016, the web site True Pundit published an article reporting…

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How NPR factchecked the first presidential debate in realtime, on top of a live transcript » Nieman Journalism Lab

Hillary Clinton gave multiple shoutouts to fact checkers during the first presidential debate on Monday — but of course, directing viewers to her own site, which was churning out its own fact checks on Donald Trump’s statements throughout the night. Though TV networks (mostly) shied away from on-screen fact checking, other news organizations doubled down,…

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The inevitable burst of the video bubble

The V-word was on everyone’s lips at our Monetising Media conference last week. Debates raged about production, distribution and of course, monetisation of video, but are the benefits of video really all they’re cracked up to be? The Media Briefing’s flagship State of the Media Industry Report 2017 (coming soon) highlights the importance of video…

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People Are Loving This Reporter Who Yelled “Thanks A Lot, Bitch” At The Debate – BuzzFeed News

A reporter at the presidential debate has become the hero we all deserve by yelling, “Thanks a lot, bitch!” at another woman while chasing an interview. vine.co The priceless moment was captured by Dalton Bennett of the Washington Post. The reporter, Al Jazeera English’s Kimberly Halkett, was apparently trying to get an interview with Gov. Mike Pence when…

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