Mediagazer: Facebook partners with Meedan, a non-profit tech company, to give training on vaccine and health misinformation to its 80+ fact-checking partners (Sara Fischer/Axios)

6:55 PM ET, July 27, 2021

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

NBC News says it will add over 200 jobs to strengthen its streaming services and websites, including doubling its digital staff for Today — NBCU News Group is adding hundreds of jobs to its digital organization, led by a major investment in streaming as well as in its “TODAY” show brand, executives tell Axios.

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Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:

Facebook's restricting interest-based and web activity ad targeting for users under 18 on its platforms, only allowing segmentation by age, gender, and location — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will stop allowing advertisers to target people under 18 on its platforms based on their interests …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Facebook partners with Meedan, a non-profit tech company, to give training on vaccine and health misinformation to its 80+ fact-checking partners — Facebook is partnering with a global tech non-profit called Meedan to give its 80+ fact-checking partner organizations access to training …

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Erik Pedersen / Deadline:

PBS leads the nominations for the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, with 52 nominations; CNN is second with 41, CBS with 30, ABC with 22, and Vice with 20 — PBS leads the nominations for the 42nd annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, as it usually does, this year scoring 52 noms over last year's 48.

Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:

Daniel Hale, a defense contractor who leaked documents on drone warfare to Intercept's Jeremy Scahill, gets 45 months in prison for violating the Espionage Act — In 2013, Daniel Hale was at a peace conference in D.C. when a man recounted how two family members had been killed in a U.S. drone strike.

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Snopes says it has raised over $1.7M from ~44K supporters to fund its legal battle against Proper Media, which has filed four lawsuits against it since 2017 — Snopes, one of the oldest fact-checking websites in the country, has raised over $1.7 million from over 44,400 supporters to help …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

YouTube reports $7B in Q2 ad revenue, up 84% YoY from $3.81B, and says its Shorts feature now has 15B global daily views, up from 6.5B in March — YouTube accelerated back into high growth for the second quarter of 2021, as ad revenue hit a record $7.0 billion for the period.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter hires the team that built Brief, a subscription-based news summary app founded by former Google employees; the app will wind down July 31 — Twitter's recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief.

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Indigo Olivier / The Nation:

Media unions, including at the Daily Beast, are leading the charge against NDAs by adding provisions in contracts that ban them as a matter of workplace safety — Workers in the industry argue that nondisclosure agreements are a matter of workplace safety, making them “mandatory subjects of bargaining.”

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