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1. Stop Using Google Trends (Danny Page / Medium)
2. Twitter’s Best Idea for Keeping Up with News Is Buried Too Deep (Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed)
3. Mother Jones and Gawker Media Both Have Rich Enemies Who Want to Sue The Pants Off Them (Noah Kulwin / Recode)
4. Facebook Plays Favorites with Publishers (Lucia Moses / Digiday)
5. Exclusive: Google, Facebook Quietly Move Toward Automatic Blocking of Extremist Videos (Joseph Menn and Dustin Volz / Reuters)
6. How the Tampa Bay Times Retold Accounts of Choice and Chance at the Pulse Nightclub Shooting (Shan Wang / Nieman Lab)
