Mediagazer: During Italy visit, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists the social network is not a media company and will not become a content provider (Giulia Segreti/Reuters)

3:15 PM ET, August 30, 2016

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Giulia Segreti / Reuters:

During Italy visit, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists the social network is not a media company and will not become a content provider — Facebook Inc. will not become a media company, its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, telling students the firm would remain a technology platform.

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BBC:

Iran says it has completed the first phase of its plan to operate a “national internet”, which provides access to e-government services and domestic web pages — Iran has announced it has completed the first phase of its plan to operate a “national internet”.

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Oriana Schwindt / The Wrap:

SNL Kagan: a record high of 812K pay TV subscribers cut the cord in the April-June quarter, versus 625K in the same quarter a year ago — Another quarter, another not-insignificant loss for the pay-TV market. All told, 812,000 pay TV subscribers cut the cord from April through June of this year, according to research firm SNL Kagan.

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

At second-biggest news website in Lithuania, 15Min.lt, ad-blocking fell by 74% after implementing strategy that uses journalists to appeal directly to readers — In May, Tomas Balekas dropped a revelation on the crowd gathered at an internet conference in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital city.

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