Ahead of a broader rollout in 2020, several Chinese cities are testing a “social credit” system, which determines a citizen’s creditworthiness based on an Orwellian array of factors. “A person can incur black marks for infractions such as fare cheating, jaywalking and violating family-planning rules,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “In time, Beijing expects to draw on bigger, combined data pools, including a person’s internet activity,” The Journal writes, citing sources.

The Obama administration is tapping Stanford University and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to take on poverty. The partners are kicking off the effort with a Summit on Poverty and Opportunity, which will be held on Stanford’s campus. “It will focus on using technology and innovation to address issues like poverty, inequality, and economic immobility,” Buzzfeed reports.

Facebook is facing increasing pressure from German authorities to police its platform, and curb messages of hate. As such, “Germany has become an important test case globally for how the social network polices what may be published online, and how it should respond to inappropriate and illegal content,” The New York Times reports.

In exchange for replacing longtime COO Adam Bain, Twitter's Anthony Noto is getting a stock package worth up to $12 million a year. The package “reflects his increased role and responsibilities as COO,” and is meant to align with “the interests of our shareholders,”a Twitter spokeswoman tells Business Insider.

For part of Tuesday, Twitter suspended the Twitter account of its own CEO, Jack Dorsey. “After it came back online, Dorsey tweeted that the suspension was the result of ‘an internal mistake,’” CNN Money reports. “Twitter didn't immediately respond to a request for further comment about what caused Dorsey's account to be put on ice.”

Microsoft is reportedly proposing concessions that would let rival professional social networks access its Outlook programs. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the offer is part of “a bid to win European Union antitrust approval of its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp.” As such, “After the merger … rival networks would have access to Microsoft’s Outlook add-ins program -- which allows third-party tools to integrate with Outlook … or application programming interface.”

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an accident involving one of Facebook’s big drones. “No one was hurt in the incident, which came during the unmanned aircraft’s first test flight on June 28,” Bloomberg reports. Yet, “It marks the latest hiccup in Facebook’s plans to wirelessly connect the world, following an explosion earlier this year that destroyed one of its satellites and political resistance to the service in India.”

Facebook is testing of a feature that will help people find free and public Wi-Fi. “The social networking company confirmed that its Wi-Fi discovery feature is being rolled out now, though it appears to only be in select countries,” VentureBeat reports. As a Facebook spokesperson tells VB: “To help people stay connected to the friends and experiences they care about, we are rolling out a new feature that surfaces open Wi-Fi networks associated with nearby places.”

NPR delves into Facebook’s so-called “community operations” team, which is made up of a few thousand people judging the offensiveness of content on the fly. “Several current and former Facebook employees tell NPR there is a lot of internal turmoil about how the platform does and doesn't censor content that users find offensive,” it reports. “And outside Facebook, the public is regularly confounded by the company's decisions — around controversial posts and around fake news.”

Jim Rutenberg, a columnist for The New York Times, argues that social giants like Facebook have a civic responsibility to weed out fake news. “With a mainstream news media that works hard to separate fact from fiction under economic and political threat, Facebook -- which has contributed to that economic threat by gobbling up so much of the online advertising market -- is going to have a special responsibility to do its part,” he writes.