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6:30 PM ET, August 21, 2018

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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.
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.
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 …
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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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”
Discussion: The Wrap
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @profgalloway
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Wrap, Decider, MacRumors and 9to5Mac
 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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