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8:20 PM ET, July 21, 2018

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Washington Post:
Sources: in FBI-seized audio recording, Trump and Cohen discuss possible payment to National Enquirer parent AMI after media company paid Karen McDougal $150K  —  Two months before the 2016 election, longtime Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen secretly taped a conversation …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Study of 3,000 US adults: users are more likely to trust news when they do not see identifying source info; Vox, Fox, and Breitbart trusted least when labeled  —  Not that they can remember the source five minutes later, anyway.  —  People don't always remember the precise source of their news.
Discussion: Poynter
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Kimberly Guilfoyle abruptly leaves Fox News; sources say she may take a job at the non-profit America First Policies and join Trump Jr. on the campaign trail  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle leaving Fox News to campaign with Donald Trump Jr.  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Fox News host and one of the network's top stars …
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions”  —  Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation.  The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
As LA Times moves to new offices, the owner Patrick Soon-Shiong talks about his plans for the paper, competition with NYT and WaPo, and why he moved into media  —  Patrick Soon-Shiong despises clickbait and says the future belongs to quality journalism.  Will his gamble pay off?
Discussion: @palewire
Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Remembering the eccentric Times Mirror Square as the Los Angeles Times moves out of its longtime downtown headquarters  —  The headlines from Washington — Nixon and the Watergate hearings — seemed far away as guests strolled through the new corporate headquarters for Times Mirror Co.
Discussion: Poynter and @mattdpearce
Simon Dumenco / Ad Age:
Q&A with Eric Gillin and Amiel Stanek of Basically, a millennial foodie brand, on how video has made recipes evolve, the pros of SEO, and making less content  —  Under Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport, Condé Nast's venerable food magazine Bon Appétit has been on an extended hot streak.
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, and CMC are in early-stage discussions about buying roughly 20% of WPP China, valuing the business between $2B and $2.5B  —  Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings, the two biggest names in China's technology industry, are in talks to buy a stake in the $2.5bn (£1.9bn) Chinese operations of WPP Group.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty may have acted in violation of laws protecting Americans from domestic propaganda by buying Facebook ads targeted at US users  —  A broadcasting organization backed by the federal government has used Facebook to target ads at United States citizens …
Discussion: @jeffgiesea
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT tech reporter David Streitfeld on staying away from Twitter and Facebook, covering Amazon, and raising a child in a largely tech-free home  —  How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives?  David Streitfeld, a technology reporter …
Discussion: @ronlieber
 
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Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

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