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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.
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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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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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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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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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Luke DeCock / Raleigh News & Observer:
As The Athletic expands to cover Carolina, Raleigh News & Observer sports writer Luke DeCock says the site can't cover the community the way a newspaper can — You may have seen, on Facebook and Twitter, another wave of posts from sportswriters about why they're joining The Athletic …
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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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Bethan Jinkinson / About the BBC:
Six months in, BBC Ideas has published ~250 short videos on a variety of subjects with help from the BBC archives team and partner institutions like Ozyfest — Executive Editor BBC Ideas — We launched BBC Ideas earlier this year on a cold January day. We'd done our audience research …
R.L. Bynum / @rl_bynum:
In a McClatchy internal memo, the CEO announces furloughs, a freeze of open positions, and staff reductions affecting about 3.5% of the workforce — In memo from CEO, McClatchy (owner of N&O & H-S) today announced furloughs and staff reductions. About 3.5% of workforce is expected to be affected by reductions. It also is freezing open positions.
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 …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Apple says it has purchased the rights to a series based on Nathaniel Rich's recent New York Times Magazine article on climate change, “Losing Earth” — LOS ANGELES — A recent New York Times Magazine article about climate change and the political forces that have stymied efforts …
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