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Facebook removes 652 Pages, groups, and accounts on Facebook and Instagram after a FireEye tip led it to investigate inauthentic behavior out of Iran and Russia — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News:
Interview with Jack Dorsey on harassment, Hannity, and bias: “I think an impartial product, impartial policy, and impartial enforcement can exist” — Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey doesn't have all the answers. For one, he's not sure whether you should delete your old tweets.
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@cwarzel, @oliverdarcy, @rmac18, @buzzfeednews, @cwarzel, @jayrosen_nyu and @jack
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.
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook says it plans to remove over 5,000 ad targeting options by this fall in an effort to prevent discriminatory advertising — Facebook is planning to remove more than 5,000 ad targeting options in an effort to prevent discriminatory advertising. — The bulk of the 5,000 targeting options …
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Facebook, @kantrowitz, The Next Web, MediaPost, @f_kaltheuner, @malteengeler, MediaNama, Adweek, @alexismadrigal, Digiday, The Verge, AdExchanger, USA Today, Marketing Land, SlashGear, Hit & Run, Slate, Fortune and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
Patricia Hernandez / The Verge:
Google launches experimental feature for Assistant users in the US that shares stories from Solutions Journalism Network when asked “tell me something good” — Good news, literally — Trying to keep up with the news might be aspirational, but these days, it can also be depressing.
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TechCrunch, @soljourno, The Next Web, SlashGear and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
In an internal McClatchy memo, CEO Craig Forman announces some furloughs, a freeze of some open jobs, and staff reductions of about 3.5%, or about 140 people — McClatchy, the publisher of more than two dozen daily newspapers across the country, will reduce its staff by approximately three …
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Facebook suspended and then reinstated the English-language page for Venezuela's Telesur, with about 500K followers, giving conflicting reasons for suspension — On August 13, Facebook shut down the English-language page of Telesur, blocking access for roughly half a million followers …
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@samfbiddle, @samfbiddle and @rasmus_kleis
The Argus:
Q&A with the founders of Byline Festival, a UK gathering run by journalists that brings the press, writers, musicians, and comedians together — Byline is the festival set up by journalists, for journalists. With far more than just music on offer, there is plenty to discuss, debate and dance to over the weekend.
Sophie Gilbert / The Atlantic:
Hollywood movies and TV shows continue to portray female journalists as unethical, perpetuating a cultural stereotype that has persisted for several decades — With Camille Preaker, Zoe Barnes, and Rory Gilmore, Hollywood's depictions of women reporters have never been further from reality.
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TV Tattle
Michael Barthel / Pew Research Center:
Pew Research says audiences for nearly every major section of the US news media fell in 2017, with radio the only exception — Every year since 2004, Pew Research Center has issued an annual assessment of the state of the news media that tracks key audience and economic indicators for a variety …
Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Documents in Michael Cohen's case give more details of the role of American Media CEO David Pecker and National Enquirer EIC Dylan Howard in stifling stories — Federal prosecutors said Tuesday, for the first time, that the National Enquirer played a pivotal role in silencing adult-film star Stormy Daniels …
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New York Post, @petersterne, Variety and @petersterne
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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@rafat, @jarroddicker, @jeffjohnroberts, @bradydale, @mikejcasey, @shak and @jonrussell
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
April Ryan says she recently had to hire a bodyguard with her own money and says people have waited outside the White House to confront her — The CNN contributor says she recently hired a bodyguard on her own dime. — Few reporters have lived the Trump administration's war against the press …
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Fox News, TVNewser, @rochelleriley, @leonardpittsjr1, @brooklynmarie, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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