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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Apollo Global, Providence Equity Partners, and Blackstone are among private equity firms interested in buying local TV assets; no deals are imminent — - Apollo, Blackstone and Providence are among private equity firms that have expressed interest in buying local TV stations.
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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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 …
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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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 …
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