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The Poynter Institute will honor Chris Wallace with its Medal of Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. It will be an online presentation after the election. Wallace is the son of the late “60 Minutes” icon Mike Wallace and the host of Fox New Sunday. He’s also the one who tried to moderate the first presidential debate this week.
“Saturday Night Live” will begin its new season this Saturday (Oct. 3). Look for regular appearances from Jim Carrey as Joe Biden.
Scary when Facebook is the chief vector for QAnon. No, that’s not a conspiracy theory.
Google will halt all election advertising after the polls officially close on Nov. 3—a move designed to limit false messages about the outcome. That also applies to YouTube.
Since 2007, the State Department has been annually giving out an International Womenof Courage prize. It’s not known for controversy—until this year. One of the 10 women to be honored, Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro–whose reporting helped expose Russian disinformation campaigns–has had her award revoked. Seems that some of her posts on Twitter and Facebook were quite critical of Donald Trump for his media assaults.