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August 22, 2018, 1:05 PM

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Facebook:
Facebook removes 652 Pages, groups, and accounts on Facebook and Instagram after a FireEye tip led it to investigate inauthentic behavior out of Iran and Russia  —  Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
Twitter Safety / @twittersafety:
Twitter says it has suspended 284 accounts for engaging in coordinated manipulation and that many of the accounts appeared to originate from Iran  —  Working with our industry peers today, we have suspended 284 accounts from Twitter for engaging in coordinated manipulation. Based on our existing analysis, it appears many of these accounts originated from Iran.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
A look at Waymo's self-driving car depot in Phoenix and the progress of its Early Rider program, which offers free test rides to 400+ members  —  Waymo is ready to start charging for its self-driving trips, but first, it needs to master the dreaded art of fleet management
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
A look at Intrusion Truth, an anonymous group that since last April has been posting info about alleged members of state sponsored Chinese hacking unit APT10  —  Since April last year, a group calling itself ‘Intrusion Truth’ has trickled out the real names of hackers working for Chinese intelligence.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Santa Clara Fire Department says Verizon throttled “unlimited” data plan to a fire truck during Mendocino wildfire response; Verizon says it made a mistake  —  Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response.  —  Verizon Wireless' throttling …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
In its first earnings after IPO, Dutch payments company Adyen reports H1 revenues of €256.4M up 67.3% YoY, with net income of €48.2M, up 74.6% YoY  —  After Adyen's huge debut on the public markets in June that saw the stock go up 92 percent on its first day of trading …
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TechCrunch:
A look at the 59 startups that presented at Y Combinator's Summer 2018 Demo Day 2  —  From yeast-grown Cannibinoids to project management software to consumer apps looking to gauge opinions on college campuses, there was quite the wide variety of spaces represented on the second day of pitches from Y Combinator's Summer 2018 class.
More: EdSurge and TechCrunch
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Nylas, a San Francisco-based startup that lets developers integrate email content into apps through the Nylas API, raises $16M Series B led by Spark Capital  —  Nylas, a startup that helps developers integrate email content into applications via an API, announced a $16 million Series B today led by Spark Capital.
Yimian Wu / China Money Network:
China-based Duiba, the company behind interactive advertising platform Tui'a and other services aimed at the enterprise market, raises $110M Series C  —  Private equity firms Orchid Asia Group and TPG have led a US$110 million series C round in Chinese enterprise solution provider Duiba …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Facebook says it will forego its 30% share of in-app revenue for Messenger's Instant Games on Android  —  Facebook has announced it is going to forego its 30 percent share of Instant Games in-app revenue on the Android platform.  —  Instant Games are casual titles that can be shared …
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