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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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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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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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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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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
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 …
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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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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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.
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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