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Mazher Mahmood and his driver Alan Smith have been found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA

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News Corp faces lawsuits from 20 ‘Fake Sheikh’ targets in wake of conviction

Met police accused of ignoring warnings on ‘Fake Sheikh’

‘Fake Sheikh’ Mazher Mahmood guilty of tampering with Tulisa trial evidence

The ‘Fake Sheikh’s’ top scoops: from Sophie Wessex to Sven’s sexploits

Fall of the ‘Fake Sheikh’: how the tables turned on Mazher Mahmood

Mazher Mahmood’s journalistic game has finally been brought to book | Roy Greenslade

‘Donald Trump only goes on Hannity’: Megyn Kelly clashes with Fox News colleague

BBC axes David Baddiel show that aired jokes about Queen’s sex life

BBC’s Motherland to return as full series

Simon Cowell to stay on America’s Got Talent until 2019

Channel 4 to broadcast poems by young refugees

Home Office refuses to say why it confiscated journalist’s passport

Sainsbury’s Bank credit card ad banned for being ‘socially irresponsible’

Best of the rest

BuzzFeed: undermined by OurMine. Photograph: Screengrab

Hacking group hits BuzzFeed: ‘We have your database’ (Gizmodo)

BBC challenges comedy writers and producers to take on the mainstream (Broadcast, £)

Financial Times flips the switch on its speedy new website (NiemanLab)

Twitter stock plunges 10% after hours on report that Google won’t make a bid (Business Insider)

Sir Martin Sorrell: Facebook cannot claim a three-second view is the same as a TV ad (Marketing Week)

Are Amazon’s buzziest hits making Netflix nervous? (Vanity Fair)

Fox anchor settles $5m suit over toy rodent sharing her name (New York Post)

Donald Trump’s big ratings allow him to scrimp on TV ad spending (FT, £)

US vice-presidential debate generates fireworks, but not ratings (NYT)

And finally...

Amber Rudd: got many Twitter users ruddy angry. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Following home secretary Amber Rudd’s proposal to make firms reveal foreign staff numbers, the FT’s Alphaville blog decided to get “one step ahead of our jackbooted overlords” yesterday. It published a list of all its staff and their nationalities:

Paul Murphy: “a fucking Irishman.”

David Keohane: an actual Irishman, but he works out of Mumbai, so maybe a net neutral?

Izabella Kaminska: Polish. (Sorry.)

Kadhim Shubber: Iraqi. (Seriously, we’re very sorry.)

Bryce Elder: Scottish, so he’s good for the time being, right?

Cardiff Garcia: American.

Matt Klein: American.

Alexandra Scaggs: American. (Sorry about all the Americans.)