Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs will be deposed in late October in conjunction with a lawsuit filed by the parents of Seth Rich, a DNC staffer who was murdered in 2016. Hannity, Dobbs, and guests on Fox News in 2017 promoted a conspiracy theory that originated on the internet, suggesting that Rich was murdered for providing DNC documents to Wikileaks. Investigators said Rich's murder was the result of a botched robbery and found no evidence that Rich ever passed documents to Wikileaks.

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• Fox News retracted a story on Rich published in May 2017 by Malia Zimmerman, but did not apologize or explain why the article was published without proper vetting.
• In 2018, Rich's parents sued Fox News, Zimmerman, and Fox News guest Ed Butowsky, who convinced the Rich family to allow former homicide detective Rod Wheeler to investigate the murder.
• Dobbs' deposition is scheduled for Oct. 7; Hannity's will take place on Oct. 30.

Kim Kardashian West, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sacha Baron Cohen, Katy Perry, and other celebrities say they won't post to Facebook or Instagram on Wednesday in support of the #StopHateForProfit campaign. The project aims to hold Facebook accountable for what it sees as a failure to prevent hate speech and misinformation from spreading on the platforms.

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• The announcement of celebrities "freezing" their Instagram and Facebook accounts for a day was met largely with criticism and eye-rolls online, due to the minimal nature of the action.
• Others online encouraged Kardashian West to delete Facebook entirely.
• In July, more than 400 companies agreed to pause advertising on Facebook for the month in protest of harmful content.
• The temporary boycott didn't appear to hurt Facebook's bottom line as the company has seen growth amid the pandemic.

ANALYSIS: What should the media do if Trump loses and doesn't leave?

Something that would have been unthinkable half a decade ago now seems eminently plausible: The incumbent president could lose his bid for reelection and simply not accept it.

A number of publications have tried to make sense of this and detail the possible ramifications if it comes to fruition:

• Financial Times: "What happens if Trump loses but refuses to concede?"
• FiveThirtyEight: "What if Trump Loses and Won't Leave?"
• CNN: "If Trump loses and won't leave, it could get ugly."
• The Guardian: "What if Trump loses but refuses to leave office? Here's the worst-case scenario."
• The Intercept: "What If Trump Won't Leave?"

Those headlines are eerily-similar, mostly because of how clear it's become that this has a real chance of happening. A number of factors make this scenario more likely...

The Washington Post has launched "The Road to Recovery," a series on how Americans and American industries are attempting to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the stories featured:

• Wineries in California's Sonoma Valley are embracing online sales and budget pricing, and vineyards are offering crushed grapes in bulk.
• Individuals nationwide are purchasing cardboard cutouts of deceased loved ones to appear in the stands for major sporting events.
• Due to players' ability to socially distance with ease, golf clubs had one of their most popular summers in years.

WaPo says the series will include "an immersive video storytelling project" following supply chains in rural America "scrambling to rebuild."

NiemanLab profiled the Anti-Racism Daily, an email newsletter that provides resources to "dismantle white supremacy." The newsletter's creator, Nicole Cardoza, is the executive director of the nonprofit Yoga Foster, who told NiemanLab that it can be exhausting as a Black woman to answer the same questions over and over about how to dedicate oneself to being anti-racist.

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• The newsletter looks at news stories through an "anti-racist lens" and provides daily actions, like reflecting on one's go-to news source and making a commitment to read news coverage by journalists of color.
• After three months, the Anti-Racism Daily has more than 100,000 subscribers and 258,000 followers on Instagram.

President Trump has nominated telecom lawyer Nathan Simington as a new commissioner of the FCC. Simington is notable for helping draft a petition as part of Trump's executive order instructing the FCC to review Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 prevents internet platforms like Facebook or Twitter from being seen as a publisher of all content posted on the platform, limiting their liability.

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• The executive order came following Twitter's labeling of two Trump tweets as misleading for the first time in late May.
• Most recently, Twitter posted a "manipulated media" tag on a Trump tweet from Tuesday night featuring a video of Joe Biden playing a song on his phone at an event. The audio from the manipulated video replaced Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" with N.W.A's "F**k the Police."
• Commissioner Mike O'Rielly had been nominated for a third term, but his nomination was withdrawn following criticism of the Trump administration's executive order.
• The FCC has five commissioners at a time, only three of which are allowed to be of the same political party. If Simington is confirmed by the Senate, he would likely become the second Republican commissioner to favor reforming Section 230, along with Brendan Carr.

QUICK HITS

• "Big Brother" and "America's Got Talent" drew higher ratings on Tuesday night than President Trump's town hall on ABC.
• Tribune Publishing is closing its Newport News, Virginia, newsroom, leaving writers of The Daily Press and Virginian-Pilot without a physical office.
• Facebook and Twitter shut down accounts connected to a campaign run by the conservative group Turning Point Action, after the group was accused of paying teenagers to post conservative talking points to the platform.
• Twitter has temporarily banned Kanye West until he voluntarily removes a tweet sharing private information of Forbes Chief Content Officer Randall Lane.
• Slack is gathering industry leaders and product experts at Slack Frontiers, a free virtual conference dedicated to digital transformation.*

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