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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook assigns a trustworthiness score to each of its users, tracking things like whether an article a user flags as false turns out, after review, to be true — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one.
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
A look at Facebook's plans to avert interference in the midterms, including putting people from various teams in a physical war room, a first for a US election — Is it enough? — Two weeks ago, on a hastily scheduled conference call with journalists, Facebook executives announced …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Netflix is testing bypassing iTunes payment method in 33 countries, redirecting users to the mobile web version to log payment details directly with Netflix — Netflix is one of the highest-grossing apps on the iOS App Store, but it looks like the video streaming giant is contemplating …
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Stephanie Akin / Roll Call:
Legislation tracking company FiscalNote has finalized its $180M acquisition of CQ Roll Call; The Economist Group now has 18% stake in FiscalNote — FiscalNote, a rapidly growing Washington-based company that uses technology to track and analyze legislation around the world …
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@ccamia, @kcoxdc, @nielslesniewski and @mkandel
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:
CoinDesk, a site which tracks news and info about digital currency like bitcoin, generated $20M in revenue in the first seven months of 2018 and is profitable — CoinDesk is the hottest digital media startup that most people haven't heard of, generating around $20 million in revenue through the first seven months of 2018.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Newly launched Magnet Companies, which will invest in and buy digital media businesses, is the latest prominent media venture set up as a holding company — On Aug. 2, a trio of longtime digital media executives, including former HuffPost CEO Betsy Morgan and former AwesomenessTV president Brett Bouttier …
NBC News:
The News Media Alliance, which represents 2000 news and media organizations, has urged the FTC to take action over tech companies' “anti-competitive” behavior — One of the biggest media trade groups has a message for U.S. regulators — it's time to act.
Megan Keller / The Hill:
New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel shared a voicemail of a man threatening him with an AK47 and calling him an “enemy of the people” — New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel on Monday shared a voicemail of a man threatening him and calling him an “enemy of the people.”
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The Wrap
CBS News:
CBS Corporation could be forced to pay CEO Les Moonves $200M+ if he leaves before the end of his contract in 2021 — CBS Corporation could be forced to pay CEO Les Moonves upwards of $200 million if he leaves before the end of his contract in 2021. Moonves took home nearly $70 million …
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Ad Age and @drudge_report
Kashmir Hill / Jezebel:
While journalists generalize when writing about complex issues, NYT's omission of Mary Stone Ross from its deep dive on CA privacy law is odd given her key role — The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy cover story on “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley …
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NLGJA:
New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Carolyn Ryan named inaugural recipient of the NLGJA Leadership Award — WASHINGTON, DC - Today NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists announces that The New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Carolyn Ryan is the inaugural recipient of the new NLGJA Leadership Award.
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Poynter
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Media research firm Magid: 35% of Millennials share passwords for streaming services like Netflix, vs. 19% of Generation X subscribers and 13% of Baby Boomers — - An estimated 35 percent of millennials share passwords for streaming services. That's compared with 19 percent of Generation X subscribers and 13 percent of Baby Boomers.
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