Mediagazer: How women, including Campbell Brown and Alex Hardiman, are commanding Facebook's efforts to foster more legitimate news reporting (Joan E. Solsman/CNET)

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.

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: @oneunderscore__, @jasonmbrodsky, @farsightsecinc, BuzzFeed News 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? …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: @meandvan, @dpfunke and Vox

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 …

Discussion: BuzzFeed News, The Wrap, @slasher, The Drum, TechCrunch and The Guardian, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: @noupside, @timcwrites, MediaPost, @buzzfeednews, BuzzFeed News, @bensasse, @noupside, @noupside, @noupside, Fortune, Boing Boing, BBC, Gizmodo, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Office of Media Relations and New York Times

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

How women, including Campbell Brown and Alex Hardiman, are commanding Facebook's efforts to foster more legitimate news reporting — At Facebook, where men outnumber women almost two to one, the future of news is female. — Alex Hardiman speaks softly. Leading a team meeting …

Discussion: The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Andrew Marchand / New York Post:

Sources: sports commentator Jemele Hill is leaving ESPN on September 1 after the network agreed to buy out her contract — Search

Discussion: @andrewmarchand, @jimmiller, The Daily Caller, BostonGlobe.com, @richarddeitsch, Sporting News, Variety, Yahoo, Washington Post, The Big Lead, Fox News, The Daily Beast, Daily Wire, Yahoo Sports, Deadspin and Awful Announcing

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.

Discussion: 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?

Discussion: @niemanlab

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 …

Discussion: @taylorlorenz, @sethlargo, @themrzt, @chronotope and @jbenton