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7:50 AM ET, March 22, 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg:
I want to share an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation — including the steps we've already taken and our next steps to address this important issue.  —  We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you.
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Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney:
Mark Zuckerberg to face questions in CNN interview exclusive  —  Zuckerberg's mentor: Crisis could destroy Facebook  —  Five days after a data scandal first upended Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to give a rare interview with CNN.  —  Zuckerberg will sit down with CNN's Laurie Segall …
New York Times:
A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg About Data Privacy  —  For much of the past week, Facebook has been embroiled in a controversy involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm with ties to Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and how the firm improperly obtained and exploited personal data from 50 million Facebook users.
Nicholas Thompson / Wired:
Mark Zuckerberg Talks to WIRED About Facebook's Privacy Problem  —  FOR THE PAST four days, Facebook has been taken to the woodshed by critics, the stock market, and regulators after it was reported that the data-science firm Cambridge Analytica obtained the data of 50 million Facebook users.
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica was offered politicians' hacked emails, witnesses say
Discussion: Political Wire and Common Dreams
CNN:
Mark Zuckerberg speaks to CNN: The highlights
Discussion: Gizmodo
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New York Times:
How a Witness for Mueller and a Republican Donor Influenced the White House for Gulf Rulers  —  A cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top Trump fund-raiser into an instrument of influence at the White House for the rulers of Saudi Arabia …
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Mueller probe witness who met Jared Kushner and was ‘best friends’ with Steve Bannon flees the country after being revealed as a pedophile  — Robert Mueller co-operating witness George Nader has fled the United States for the United Arab Emirates, DailyMail.com reveals
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Jared Kushner's Dreams of Mideast Peace Are Alive
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
New York Times:
Why Is Trump So Afraid of Russia?  —  The former C.I.A. director John Brennan pulled no punches on Wednesday when he was asked why President Trump had congratulated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for his victory in a rigged election, even after Mr. Trump's national security staff warned him not to.
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Defends Congratulating Putin: ‘Getting Along ... Is A Good Thing’  —  In the wake of a report that he ignored his national security team's advice not to congratulate Russian president Vladimir Putin on Putin's recent re-election, President Donald Trump defended the exchange Wednesday.
Washington Post:
Trump's remark to Putin that they could meet soon caught White House advisers by surprise … President Trump's senior advisers were thrown when he told Russian President Vladi­mir Putin on Tuesday that he expected to meet with him soon, as briefings before the call to Moscow included …
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Ex-Chief of C.I.A. Suggests Putin May Have Compromising Information on Trump
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Ex-CIA boss says Russians could have personal dirt on Trump
Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say  —  Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor …
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New York Times:   F.B.I. Investigated Sessions for Possible Perjury Over Russia Denials
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
‘Trump blew it’: The president missed his best chance yet to get funding for his border wall … President Trump has long promoted and promised a “big, beautiful wall” along the southern border — a pledge he made at the start of his presidential campaign that helped fuel his unlikely rise to the White House.
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Pennsylvania GOP Moves To Impeach Supreme Court Democrats For Gerrymandering Ruling
Associated Press:
Lawmakers release huge budget; big military, domestic boosts
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
BuzzFeed:
Here's What We Know About The Austin Package Bomber  —  Mark Anthony Conditt from Pflugerville, Texas, has been identified as the package bomber who rocked Austin.  He died when he detonated an explosive during a confrontation with police on Wednesday.  —  Authorities on Wednesday identified …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Behind the scenes: Fox News analyst's stunning note hit network ‘like a bombshell’  —  Fox News analyst denounces network as ‘propaganda machine’  —  On Tuesday afternoon, Fox News employees gathered in Studio F, the opulent new set on the ground floor of the company's Manhattan headquarters, for the network's quarterly meeting.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
A conservative commentator revolts against Fox News
Discussion: New Republic and Mediaite
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:   Fox News analyst's blistering critique of the network draws praise from critics, allies
CBS News:
60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels to be broadcast Sunday  —  The adult-film star and director describes the affair she says she had with Donald Trump in her first television interview about the alleged relationship  —  The 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TVNewser
CNN:
Mueller team so far has indicated 4 main areas it wants to ask the President about  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has so far discussed with President Donald Trump's lawyers four main topics they want to talk about with the President.
Megan Cerullo / New York Daily News:
Unarmed black man shot to death in own backyard after police mistake cell phone for weapon  —  Sacramento police fatally shot a 22-year-old black man holding a cell phone that was mistaken for a weapon.  —  Stephon Clark was in the backyard of the home he shared with his grandparents …
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Police shot at a man 20 times in his back yard, thinking he had a gun. It was a cellphone.
Discussion: Common Dreams, Vox and The Root
Wall Street Journal:
China to Target Trump's Base in Tariff Response  —  Beijing prepares to deliver pain to President Trump's support base, including with tariffs targeting agricultural exports  —  China is preparing to hit back at trade offensives from Washington with tariffs aimed at President Donald Trump's support base …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
NYC agency investigating more than a dozen Kushner buildings  —  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's buildings regulator launched investigations at more than a dozen Kushner Cos. properties Wednesday following an Associated Press report that the real estate developer routinely filed false paperwork claiming …
Michelle Stoddart / Politico:
Made-in-Europe passports give Brexiteers the blues  —  So much for its symbol of national identity.  —  Britain's blue passports are likely to be manufactured by a firm on the Continent rather than in Britain after Brexit, with Franco-Dutch firm Gemalto poised to beat out its British rival for the contract …
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Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:   SACRE BLEU Home Office accused of ‘national humiliation’ …
 
 
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
JK Rowling's Pottermore Sacks Editorial Staff, Putting The Future Of The Fan Website In Question
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Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
Republican John Cox inches ahead of Antonio Villaraigosa for second place in California governor's race, new poll finds
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
'It's taken partisanship to a place it's never been.' Inside the House Intelligence Committee.
Harry Pettit / Daily Mail:
Underwater ‘fountain’ of magma is found beneath Yellowstone supervolcano sparking fears a deadly eruption is on the way
Discussion: LewRockwell
Mary Spicuzza / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Thousands of Milwaukee voters have been dropped from rolls, including some erroneously
Discussion: Political Wire
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Charlotte Pence says she bought John Oliver's Marlon Bundo book
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘Elected to lead, not to proofread’: Typos, spelling mistakes are commonplace in Trump's White House
Discussion: New York Daily News
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Lipinski win stings liberals
Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Beast
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: ‘Mueller should be fired’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep: The ‘Deep State’ is Responsible for Ordering Ben Carson's Dining Set
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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