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2:00 PM ET, September 3, 2020

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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook says it will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election, as part of steps to protect against election interference  —  Striking a compromise to prevent election misinformation  —  Facebook will stop taking new political advertising in the United States …
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Steve Kovach / CNBC:
Facebook's new policies on the US election are so narrow, and come into effect so late, that they won't have any real effect on election misinformation  —  - Facebook on Thursday said it would ban new political ads in the week before the Nov. 3 presidential election and enforce …
Alex Heath / The Information:
Sources: Apple has told some developers it plans to delay the enforcement of IDFA changes in iOS 14, after speaking to Activision Blizzard and others  —  Apple plans to delay the enforcement of a controversial change to its next mobile operating system that would upend how ads are targeted …
Jack Stubbs / Reuters:
Six of Peace Data's writers, the site linked to Russia's IRA, say they were reached on social media, paid $100-$250/story, sometimes told to add political spin  —  LONDON (Reuters) - When freelance journalist Laura Walters submitted a 1,000 word article about Chinese political influence …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook says Watch now has over 1.25B monthly viewers, counting everyone who streamed for at least one minute  —  Facebook Watch, the social giant's two-year-old video streaming platform, has become a massive destination — now attracting over 1.25 billion users each month, the company claims.
Dan McCrum / Financial Times:
How Wirecard tried to stop FT from reporting on fraud at the payments firm, using intimidation, private investigators, and allegations of market manipulation  —  Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories: inside the FT's five-year investigation of a billion-dollar fraud
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Podcast production company Parcast is unionizing under WGA East, making it the third Spotify-owned company, after Gimlet Media and The Ringer, to do so  —  Parcast joins Gimlet Media and The Ringer in unionization efforts  —  Parcast, the podcast production company Spotify acquired last year, is unionizing.
Discussion: @kerrymflynn and The Wrap
Institute for Nonprofit News:
The Institute for Nonprofit News announces that many of its 250 members will feed stories to Spotlight News for an election dashboard in its news aggregator app  —  Spotlight News and the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) announced today that many of INN's 250 member newsrooms will be aggregating …
 
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources detail how speculation about Dean Baquet's successor at NYT was upended by BLM protests and COVID-19; Sulzberger say he's “in no hurry” to make a change
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Chris Wallace to moderate first presidential debate, Steve Scully the second, and NBC's Kristen Welker the third; USA Today's Susan Page to moderate VP debate
 

 
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Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024 that, under specific conditions, let users log in with any password if the account's username had 52+ characters

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Intel scraps forecast of selling $500M+ worth of Gaudi AI accelerator chips in 2024, with CEO Pat Gelsinger citing chip transition and slower uptake to software

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