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8:30 PM ET, August 28, 2018

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James Vincent / The Verge:
Trump accuses Google of rigging its search results to suppress positive news about him and says the situation “will be addressed”  —  The president said that Google had “rigged” its search results to suppress positive coverage  —  The perceived leftwing bias of big tech companies …
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Washington Post:
Trump's economic adviser Kudlow says White House is “taking a look” at whether Google results should be regulated, amid concerns about alleged conservative bias  —  The Trump administration is “taking a look” at whether Google and its search engine should be regulated by the government …
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
CNN is facing backlash after it was revealed Lanny Davis was a source for its Trump Tower story on July 26, the substance of which he has since backtracked on  —  Attorney Lanny Davis says he was an anonymous source in a July CNN story that reported his client, Michael Cohen …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: HuffPost owner Oath has been pitching advertisers on a service that analyzes its 200M+ Yahoo Mail inboxes; source says practice began 10+ years ago  —  Web giant analyzes more than 200 million inboxes for clues about what products people might buy—a practice much of Silicon Valley has declared off-limits
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
18 newsrooms, including Scalawag Magazine and The Daily Tar Heel, receive $100K+ in grants from the Community Listening and Engagement Fund  —  This is the second round of grants from the Community Listening and Engagement Fund.  —  In April, 34 news organizations received grants to help them better listen to their communities.
Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: Amazon hires former ESPN executive Marie Donoghue to oversee sports for Prime Video  —  Amazon.com has hired Marie Donoghue, a former ESPN executive, to oversee sports for Prime Video, according to people familiar with the situation.  The hire of Ms. Donoghue …
Discussion: Awful Announcing
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Quartz launches a twice-weekly cryptocurrency newsletter Quartz Private Key at $15 per month or $150 annually  —  Newsletter will cost $15 per month, or $150 annually  —  Quartz is the latest media company attempting to cash in on the growing enthusiasm for cryptocurrency.
Discussion: @rafat and @joelight
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Associated Press signs deal with blockchain startup Civil, licensing its content to Civil newsrooms and collaborating on blockchain tech for news  —  Civil Media Company is a startup that aims to support a network of high-quality news outlets through the sale of cryptocurrency.
Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
Rotten Tomatoes adjusts critics criteria for its Tomatometer rating system in bid to boost diversity of voices, will include reviews from podcasts and more  —  Additionally, RT has set up a $100,000 grant program to help critics gain access to film festivals
John Gentile / Punknews.org:
Former LA Weekly staff to launch The LAnd, a new print and digital publication covering race, gender, immigration, politics, culture, and more, by year's end  —  In the wake of the buyout of the La Weekly and mass firing of the its staff, former staffers, editors, and contributors to LA Weekly …
Discussion: @passionweiss
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Amazon opens its Prime Book Box service, which sends kids books on a regular basis for $23/box, to all Prime users in the US  —  Amazon has launched yet another Prime perk for members across the U.S.  —  The latest benefit isn't a free offering, like many of the other perks that come as part of an annual Prime membership.
Ben Collins / NBC News:
InfoWars, Gateway Pundit, Mike Cernovich, and Daily Caller reporter Ian Miles Cheong wrongly identified a Reddit user as the Jacksonville shooter  —  The person who was misidentified as the Jacksonville shooter told NBC News, “My takeaway on this is there are a lot of idiots on the internet ... ”
 
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Brian Crecente / Rolling Stone:
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Ian Parker / New Yorker:
Profile of Glenn Greenwald as he cuts his Twitter use, still thinks media oversells Russian election interference effects, and his audience expands to the right
 

 
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3

Financial Times:
Sources: Meta plans to add displays to its Ray-Ban glasses as soon as H2 2025 to show notifications or AI responses, and has accelerated Orion's development

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks
 
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