60 media organizations, universities and civil society groups are teaming up to fact check the Mexican election →

“It also broke out how it performed across specific categories of violations. Over 12,000 websites were blocked for scraping and using content from legitimate sites (a rise from 10,000 in 2016). And 7,000 AdWords accounts were suspended for ‘tabloid cloaking’ — presenting websites as news organizations when they are not (this is a big rise: only 1,400 sites were ID’d for tabloid cloaking in 2016).”

“A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the company is creating new, algorithmically curated timelines of news tweets and promoting them at the top of users’ feeds in a test. (The test is an extension of Twitter’s ‘Happening Now’ feature that until now only highlighted sports tweets. During big breaking news events, Twitter will promote the curated timelines via a module at the top of the home timeline.)”