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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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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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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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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, @nielslesniewski, @mkandel and @kcoxdc
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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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 …
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Responding to NYT story, Asia Argento denies sexual assault allegations, says boyfriend Anthony Bourdain paid actor Jimmy Bennett after he tried to extort them — The Italian actress, who was one of the first to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, responds to a report …
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The Wrap, Mediaite and New Republic
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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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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Ruairi Casey / Columbia Journalism Review:
Qaabata Boru launched a newspaper in 2008 called Kanere in a Kenyan refugee camp to report on life there, then UN's Refugee Agency tried to suppress coverage — Qaabata Boru hugs a Kanere colleague. Photo by Ruairi Casey. — When I visited Kakuma, a large refugee camp in Kenya …
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@sallyhayd
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.
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