Hello again, hacks and hackers! If you’re interested in the fight against misinformation, Hacks/Hackers is co-organizing an event at this year’s MozFest in London.

Registration is open! Save your spot now in the third annual #MisinfoCon London, 23 October, in #MozFest House: https://t.co/RnvfxfSVfr

— MisinfoCon (@misinfocon) September 20, 2019

There’s still time to register, or tell your friends.

The week ahead:

• London is hosting a hackathon with Count

Worth a read:

• This NiemanLab writeup explores the ways journalists view their professional identities and how it impacts their work through the lens of news aggregators (NiemanLab)
• This guide from Towards Data Science demonstrates 10 tips for improving data plots in Matplotlib or Seaborn, such as adding a threshold line or chart annotations (Towards Data Science)
• Facebook is one of the world’s largest information distributors, so what would happen if federal regulators tried to break it up? This CJR essay looks into that along with compiling coverage of other recent challenges the company has faced (Columbia Journalism Review)

Leaked comments Mark Zuckerberg made about Elizabeth Warren raise a disturbing scenario: If you single-handedly controlled one of the world's largest information distributors, what would you do about something you see as an existential threat? https://t.co/oHVGP2MscW

— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) October 3, 2019

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