Top Items:
Channel 4 News:
Revealed: Trump's election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians — Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica - the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump's presidential victory - have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians …
Discussion:
CA Commercial, BBC, Shareblue Media, Forbes, The Week, Just Security, Facebook, Axios, The Guardian, Mediaite, Al Jazeera English, New York Times, NBC News, No More Mister Nice Blog, Politicus USA, ThinkProgress, The Verge, The Daily Beast, Daily Wire, Washington Post, CANNONFIRE, Hullabaloo, National Review, Raw Story, RedState, Engadget, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, The Atlantic, Little Green Footballs, Splinter, emptywheel, Balloon Juice, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, Shakesville and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Bloomberg:
FTC to Probe Facebook for Use of Personal Data — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing Facebook over whether it violated terms of a consent decree over its use of personal data, according to a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
Paul Lewis / The Guardian:
‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine — Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques - likely affecting hundreds of millions of users - and that Facebook looked the other way … Hundreds of millions of Facebook users …
Discussion:
Business Insider
CNN:
Whistleblower: We tested Trump slogans in 2014 - CNN Video — Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie says the company tested Trump slogans such as “drain the swamp” and “deep state” as early as 2014, before Trump announced a presidential run.
Washington Post:
Facebook's rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica … SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook last week suspended the Trump campaign's data consultant, Cambridge Analytica, for scraping the data of potentially millions of users without their consent.
Discussion:
Associated Press, Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog and BBC, more at Mediagazer »
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's High-Tech Dirty Tricksters — Cambridge Analytica, the shadowy data firm that helped elect Donald Trump, specializes in “psychographic” profiling, which it sells as a sophisticated way to digitally manipulate huge numbers of people on behalf of its clients.
Discussion:
Daily Kos, Mediaite, NBC News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politicus USA, Motherboard, Politico and Axios
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
Facebook's Surveillance Machine — In 2014, Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company that would later provide services for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, reached out with a request on Amazon's “Mechanical Turk” platform, an online marketplace where people around the world contract with others to perform various tasks.
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz under fire in Cambridge Analytica scandal; firm targeted voters with data from 50M Facebook users
Discussion:
Forbes, New York Times, The Verge, BuzzMachine, Politico, TechCrunch, Raw Story, Engadget, The Ringer, Vox, Gizmodo, Motherboard, Media Matters for America and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Social-Media Panic
Discussion:
Daily Wire, Mashable, Forbes, Big Think, Media Matters for America, Hudson Institute and ThinkProgress
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Rebekah Mercer Standing By Cambridge Analytica After Blackmail Scandal
Discussion:
ABC News, Axios and The Daily Beast, more at Techmeme »
Major Garrett / CBS News:
Trump campaign phased out use of Cambridge Analytica data before election
Discussion:
East Bay Times, RedState, TechCrunch and New York Magazine
Jason Howerton / IJR:
Ex-Obama Campaign Director: It's ‘Unfair’ Facebook Let Us ‘Ingest Entire Social Network of US’
Discussion:
Front Page Magazine, CBS Los Angeles, USA Today, CNNMoney, The Rush Limbaugh Show, RedState, Daily Wire and Gizmodo
New York Times:
Trump Considers Reshuffling Legal Team as He Takes On Mueller More Aggressively — WASHINGTON — President Trump's legal team was poised for a shake-up on Monday, according to two people briefed on the matter, as he openly discussed firing one of his lawyers, another considered resigning and a third …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Politico, RedState, CNBC, Washington Post and ThinkProgress
RELATED:
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers have turned over documents to Mueller with hopes of limiting interview scope … President Trump's attorneys have provided the special counsel's office with written descriptions that chronicle key moments under investigation in hopes of curtailing the scope of a presidential interview …
Discussion:
Raw Story, Politicus USA, The Hill, Shareblue Media, Outside the Beltway, Media Matters for America, East Bay Times, New York Magazine, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Splinter, CNN, Joe.My.God., The Week, Washington Times, Mediaite, NBC News, IJR, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
Mike Allen / Axios:
Why Trump added a streetfighter to his legal team
Discussion:
Washington Post, New York Times and bizpacreview.com
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook shutdown countdown: Four days, as snow threatens the D.C. region — BREAKING, Washington Post: “A package believed to be bound for Austin exploded at a Texas FedEx facility overnight, law enforcement officials said early Tuesday. — “The explosion occurred at a FedEx facility in Schertz …
Discussion:
CNNMoney, Vanity Fair, CNN and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Package believed to be bound for Austin explodes at Texas FedEx facility, police say … A package believed to be bound for Austin exploded at a Texas FedEx facility early Tuesday, law enforcement officials said, opening another potential front in investigations into of a series of blasts …
Discussion:
The Texas Tribune, KENS, The Daily Beast, NPR, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, The Root, Outside the Beltway, Axios, Vox and ABC News
Schertz Police Department / CBS News:
Package bound for Austin blows up at FedEx building near San Antonio — The San Antonio Texas Fire Department says a package bomb apparently bound for Austin has exploded at a FedEx distribution center in Schertz, Texas, hurting 1 person, a FedEx employee who apparently suffered a non-life-threatening …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Austin American-Statesman, Joe.My.God., WREG-TV, The Week and Fox News
New York Times:
Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation — Facebook's chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, will leave the company after internal disagreements over how the social network should deal with its role in spreading disinformation, according to current and former employees briefed on the matter.
Discussion:
Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, New York Magazine, Mashable, The Week, Motherboard, Gizmodo, Raw Story, The Verge, The Daily Caller, Engadget and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
NBC4 Washington:
Multiple Injuries Reported in Shooting at St. Mary's Co. High School — Multiple people were injured in a shooting at a high school in southeast Maryland Tuesday morning, the St. Mary's sheriff's office confirmed. — The shooting happened Tuesday morning at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland.
Discussion:
Raw Story, Fox News, RedState and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
Maryland authorities investigating shooting at high school
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, CBS Baltimore, NBC News, WIS-TV, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, WREG-TV and fox8.com
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Insiders See Democratic House Gains of 30-45 seats — Seven and a half months before the midterm elections, the combination of attitudinal and behavioral evidence leads to a single conclusion: The Democrats are very likely to win control of the House in November.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP fears another potential electoral disaster — National Republicans — on the heels of the Roy Moore and Rick Saccone debacles — worry they're staring down their latest potential midterm election fiasco: coal baron and recent federal prisoner Don Blankenship.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Page Six:
Donald Trump Jr. romanced Aubrey O'Day during marriage to Vanessa — Years before Vanessa Trump filed for divorce from Donald Trump Jr., their marriage was rocked when Don Jr. fell in love with a contestant on NBC's “The Celebrity Apprentice.” — Page Six has exclusively learned that Don Jr. …
Discussion:
East Bay Times and TMZ.com
RELATED:
Sarah Hearon / Us Weekly:
Donald Trump Jr. Had an Affair With ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Contestant Aubrey O'Day During Marriage to Vanessa
Discussion:
Joe.My.God. and The Root
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Why McConnell hasn't said anything on Trump's Mueller attacks — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has long believed he does not need to respond in real time or react to every controversial tweet or other action by President Donald Trump, according to people close to the senator.
Discussion:
CBS Miami
RELATED:
Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
One Morning in Baghdad — One morning in October 2003, I was shaken out of bed by an explosion. I was in Baghdad, leading a platoon of Army Rangers as part of a special operations task force that was hunting down the famous “deck of cards”—the last of the Ba'ath Regime loyalists, and Saddam himself.
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
The Senate's Iran Helpers — A Senate coalition tries to hamstring U.S. aid for the Saudis in Yemen. — Saudi Arabia finally has a young leader pushing social and economic reform, fighting Iran's attempt to dominate the Middle East, and even cooperating quietly with Israel.
RELATED:
Owen Daniels / Axios:
What to expect from Saudi crown prince's Washington visit
Discussion:
The Daily Beast
Samuel Petrequin / Associated Press:
Ex-French president Sarkozy held on Gadhafi claims — PARIS (AP) — In the latest judicial setback for the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy was placed in custody on Tuesday as part of an investigation that he received millions of euros in illegal campaign financing from the regime of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
'We're Losing the Fight': Tuberculosis Batters a Venezuela in Crisis — CARACAS, Venezuela — His family thought he just had a bad cold, nothing serious. — But Victor Martínez kept getting worse. By mid-January, he lay in a hospital ward, wasting away from tuberculosis.
Jeff Daniels / CNBC:
Californians fed up with housing costs and taxes are fleeing state in big numbers — More Californians are moving from the Golden State, particularly lower-income residents, although even middle-class residents are saying goodbye. — Census Bureau data show California lost …
Commissioning Editor - Practical Law — 
Energy Markets Reporter, London — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
News Reporter, MA — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
