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Thursday, August 24, 2017
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What We’re Reading
Recode / Dan Frommer
These are the 10 most popular mobile apps in America (No. 1: Facebook) →
According to comScore's U.S. mobile apps report: 1. Facebook, 2. YouTube, 3. Facebook Messenger, 4. Google Search , 5. Google Maps. (10. Pandora).
Financial Times / Hannah Murphy, Andrew Hill, and Shannon Bond
Bloomberg expands into consulting in its search for a new media model →
A new service launched this month, aimed at competing with management consultants and media agencies, already has five clients (the consulting offering costs clients between $150,000 and $200,000 a month on average).
Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis
In its first decade, PolitiFact helped define political fact-checking far beyond Washington, D.C. →
Political fact-checking groups all around the world from Chile to Iran to Israel to Italy also cite PolitiFact as inspiration for their own efforts at holding public figures to account: “PolitiFact was instrumental in the way we understood the field of fact-checking.”
The Economic Times
WhatsApp is looking for ways to curb misinformation on its platform →
“We definitely do not want to see fake news on our platform and it’s a complex problem in determining what is fake and what isn’t. Because of the encryption, we can’t read the contents of the messages.”
Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook is testing subscriptions for news organizations through Facebook, won’t take a cut of the revenue →
“We plan to start with a small group of U.S. and European publishers later this year and we'll listen to their feedback.”
Product / Lauren Bertolini
The A.V. Club is now on Kinja →
The A.V. Club is the third that Gizmodo Media Group has migrated onto Kinja this year.