Digital Media Brief Dec 9

Published: Dec. 9, 2016, 3:43 a.m.

In the news this week, fake news gets very real as a man with an assault rifle goes into a pizza place in DC targeted by online conspiracy theories. The New York Times continues to get a “Trump bump” in subscriptions, while its public editor Liz Spayd gets in hot water for criticizing reporters’ tweets. Top YouTube earner PewDiePie brings in $15 million, but threatens to quit YouTube.