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“TYT Network’s subscriber base remained relatively flat ‘for a long time’ until June 2018, according to Uygur. That month, TYT Network introduced a lower $4.99-a-month tier and reserved some perks, like invites to company events and a swag bag, for the $10 tier. The company had tested the reduced price and saw that people were 2.4 times more likely to sign up for the $4.99 option than the $10 tier, said Uygur. “ —CS

“The newscast will launch on Sept. 4 and will air daily on Facebook. It aims to target a general population of news consumers from all sides with the exception of ‘pro-Trump’ Republicans.”

Fidji Simo, Facebook’s head of video, “said it had taken a year for the service to launch internationally as the company wanted to beta test in one market first. She also said Facebook wanted to expand its Ad Breaks service at the same time as the international launch, to ensure that partners had a way to monetize their content.”

“While many of the accounts removed last week appeared to originate from Iran, Twitter said this time that about 100 of the latest batch to be suspended claimed to be in the United States. Many of these were less than a year old and shared ‘divisive commentary.’ These 100 accounts tweeted a total of 867 times and had 1,268 followers between them.”

“A major part of the Monitor’s strategy was paying visits to ‘liars tables,’ the exclusively male breakfast gatherings where farmers, coal miners and retirees meet up at general stores to talk about local happenings. While liars table regulars expressed feelings of general distrust about media coverage, they gave the Monitor credit for showing up and ‘were willing to wait and see what might happen,’ Wenzel said.”

“In all likelihood, however, Trump is repeating a claim that first appeared two days ago on PJ Media, a conservative news site, which published a piece with the headline, ’96 Percent of Google Search Results for “Trump” News Are from Liberal Media Outlets.’ The PJ Media author performed the search “Trump” in Google News a handful of times across a few different computers and then listed the news outlets appearing in the first 100 results for each query.” —SW

“Hardiman will serve as chief business and product officer at The Atlantic. At Facebook, one of her big projects was developing a subscription product for publishers, which released some results in June that it called “promising” but were still small and limited to 12 publishers.” —SW

“As well as real-time election monitoring and coverage, this live environment will promote hands-on training and foster editorial and technical innovation. Sweden’s media houses and Swedish voters will be able to ask the newsroom to turn its attention to specific subjects if required.”