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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
NewsGuard, which rates the trustworthiness of news sites, releases Chrome and Edge plug-ins to show detailed ratings, partners with libraries to educate readers — SAY YOU'RE SCROLLING through Facebook, see an article that seems a little hinky, and flag it.
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Axios, @issielapowsky, @corb_the_lesser, BleepingComputer, Nieman Lab, @jbenton and The Verge
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Reddit mods have notified Reddit employees since July 2017 of an Iranian disinformation operation on the site to no response; Reddit now says it's investigating — More than a year before the announcement from Facebook and Twitter, a group of moderators on Reddit noticed a peculiar pattern of submissions.
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@oneunderscore__, @jasonmbrodsky, @farsightsecinc, BuzzFeed News, The Verge and Engadget
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Chartbeat study: only a third of 159 publishers that adopted Google's AMP in 2017 saw clear statistical evidence of a traffic increase — Google unveiled its open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages format in 2016 to improve the mobile web by making pages load faster (and match Facebook's own fast Instant Articles format).
Matt Binder / Mashable:
YouTube will roll out the ability to enable non-skippable ads, up to a maximum length of 20 seconds, to all creators in its Partner Program starting next week — You might soon be seeing less of that “skip ad” button over on YouTube. — In a video titled Want to earn more money from ad revenue? …
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Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
How Brazilian fact-checking project Aos Fatos used technology from British charity Full Fact to transcribe and fact-check a presidential debate in real time — Aos Fatos has a friend in Full Fact. — The Brazilian fact-checking project used technology from the latter during a presidential debate …
Patricia Hernandez / The Verge:
The YouTube stream for the Logan Paul vs. KSI fight had ~773K viewers, at $10/view, but 1M+ people watched unofficial streams of the fight on Twitch at its peak — Most people didn't pay for the biggest event on YouTube — After months of hype, YouTube superstars Logan Paul …
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BuzzFeed News, The Wrap, @slasher, The Drum, TechCrunch and The Guardian, more at Techmeme »
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Profile of Kimberly Guilfoyle, once wife of San Francisco's liberal mayor and long time Fox News host, who now dates Trump Jr. and vice-chairs a super PAC — In the summer of 2004, the new mayor and first lady of San Francisco were photographed for an eight-page spread in Harper's Bazaar.
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New York Times and TVNewser
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A small team from New York University is working on ways to archive news apps and make them accessible via browsers — What if all the interactives a news organization ever made could be stored somewhere, accessible in the same form forever, even as the technologies people might use to access them change?
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@niemanlab
Tanya Dua / INSIDER:
Sources: LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is in talks to join the Donerail Group which is in talks to acquire Tronc — - The biotech billionaire and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is in talks to join an investor group bidding for the newspaper publisher Tronc.
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Business Insider
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
How ordinary teens are making money posting sponsored content on Instagram for as little as $10, but lack of regulation or parental oversight raises concerns — As long as you're a teen with a following. — While some teens spent the summer of 2018 babysitting, bagging groceries …
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@taylorlorenz, @sethlargo, @themrzt, @chronotope and @jbenton
Jacqueline Howard / CNN:
Study: IRA-backed trolls flooded social media to amplify online debates about vaccines, often linking messages around vaccines to racial or class disparities — - Russian trolls and Twitter bots amplified online vaccine debates between 2014 and 2017, a new study suggests
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MediaPost, @timcwrites, @buzzfeednews, @noupside, BuzzFeed News, @bensasse, @noupside, @noupside, @noupside, Fortune, Boing Boing, BBC, Gizmodo, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Office of Media Relations and New York Times