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Facebook responds to the NYT exposé, lists “number of inaccuracies” in the story, and denies it knew about Russian activity as early as spring of 2016 — Yesterday The New York Times published an article about the past two years at Facebook. There are a number of inaccuracies in the story, including:
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| New York Times: |
Facebook has ended its relationship with Definers Public Affairs, the consulting firm which cast George Soros as a force behind Facebook's critics — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has ended its relationship with a Washington-based consulting firm, Definers Public Affairs, which spread disparaging information …
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| New York Times: |
Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure — Sheryl Sandberg was seething. — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's board says it pushed Zuckerberg and Sandberg to respond to Russian interference faster and calls NYT report “grossly unfair” — Facebook Inc.'s board defended how Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg have handled mounting problems faced …
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Facebook plans to let users opt-in to borderline content, appeal content decisions to independent body in 2019, work with governments on content regulation — My focus in 2018 has been addressing the most important issues facing Facebook. As the year wraps up, I'm writing a series of notes …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook's second content moderation report: from April to September, 1.5B fake accounts were closed and 23.3M instances of violent content were removed — Facebook's latest transparency report shows a big jump in spam and violent content takedowns, some advances in proactively identifying hate speech …
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Google adds business messaging to Google Maps for iOS and Android, which helps keep track of conversations with local businesses — Last year we enabled users in select countries to message businesses from the Business Profiles on Google. Sending messages to businesses gives you the opportunity … | Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
FCC gives SpaceX permission to deploy over 7,000 Starlink internet satellites, as part of a full network of 12,000 — Federal regulators are allowing entrepreneur Elon Musk to use an expanded range of wireless airwaves for his plan to deliver cheap, high-speed Internet access — from space.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds third-party workflow extensions to Final Cut Pro X for the first time, with support from Frame.io, Shutterstock, and CatDV at launch — Apple has released a major update to its video editing software professionals with Final Cut Pro X version 10.4.4.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram adds new shopping features: redesigned business profiles, shop items from video posts, and save items to a shopping collecting — Instagram is continuing to build out its shopping features today with the announcement of three new product updates.
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| Nikkei: |
Alphabet to close its Schaft robotics unit and dissolve the project later this year, after seeking other options when a deal to sell it to SoftBank collapsed — Tokyo-born unit Schaft lost its way after departure of robot chief Andy Rubin — TOKYO — Alphabet, the holding company behind Google …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation announces $25 Pi 3 Model A+, with a quad-core 1.4GHz CPU but less RAM and USB ports than the $35 Model B+ — The $25 Pi 3 Model A+ — The Raspberry Pi Foundation's goal is to make computing as cheap and accessible as possible, so today, it's introducing …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Canalys: 19.7M smart speakers were sold globally in Q3, up 137% from 8.3M in Q3 2017; US and China now account for 70% of the global market — Market momentum for smart speakers shows no sign of slowing — quite the opposite, in fact. A new report published by research firm Canalys shows … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Lyft will make default tipping widely available in 2019 and will give drivers default five-star ratings from December if users don't give a rating — Lyft is launching another campaign to improve the experience for its drivers, and at least a few of the changes could affect you as a passenger.
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| Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Airtable, which wants to make database management mainstream by using drag and drop, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation — n the frenetic world of tech, where the ruling ethos is to move fast and break things, Howie Liu moves at a glacial pace. With Andrew Ofstad and Emmett Nicholas, he launched Airtable in 2013.
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