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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Joel Kaplan's growing sway at Facebook as he pushed against News Feed changes designed to reduce polarization, promoted The Daily Caller partnership — Joel Kaplan has emerged as the social-media site's protector against allegations of political bias
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The Verge and Business Insider
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| Owen Williams / Charged: |
As social media becomes ever more toxic, Fortnite has become the new social network and a place to hang out where you go to talk to friends — I've played a lot of Fortnite this year, and I was struggling to understand why I liked the game so much. It's fun to play, but usually I get bored …
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon's Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting suspended and use Amazon's rules against each other — “These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds.”
Tweets: @literallyaking, @garrytan, @glenngabe, @dtunkelang, @dcseifert, @davidgaughran, and @kevin2kelly
| Kyle Samani / Multicoin Capital: |
A look at the state of crypto at the end of 2018 and a list of questions to consider as the ecosystem evolves in 2019 and beyond — As 2018 comes to a close, we've been thinking about some of the big questions that crypto still needs to answer. — Although there is some clarity …
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Uber has offered to pay 11 cents for every mile driven for Uber to drivers who have been in individual arbitration over their employment classification — Uber is reportedly on track to go public in the first quarter next year, and in the lead up to that, it's sewing up some loose ends.| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
An overview of the new global and regional satellite navigation systems being built by China, Japan, India, and the EU — Where are you? That's not just a metaphysical question, but increasingly a geopolitical challenge that is putting tech giants like Apple and Alphabet in a tough position.| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A timeline of Facebook's scandals in 2018 lists 31 entries, showing the company faced a major problem, on average, every 12 days this year — Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn't, and 2018 has only presented more problems.
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Wired, 500ish Words, The Guardian, CNN, Columbia Journalism Review, Vox, Washington Post, and Boing Boing
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| Kate Kelly / New York Times: |
Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients — The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery.
Tweets: @jgshull, @chrissyfarr, @katekelly, @joycenovacek, @fdmts, @nytimes, @david_t_macknet, @joycenovacek, @indievc, @farzad_md, and @stevecase
| KNSD-TV: |
The San Diego Unified School District says a phishing attack exposed personal info of 500K+ students and staff, including full names, addresses, and SSNs — Student records from 2008 up to the present are impacted, district officials told NBC 7 — 500K Student Records Compromised in SDUSD Data Breach
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Motherboard, San Diego Unified …, BleepingComputer, Tom's Guide, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @sdschools and @hadip
| Washington Post: |
Facebook suspends five accounts, including one belonging to the head of research firm New Knowledge, for spreading disinformation during Alabama Senate race — Facebook has suspended Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of a top social-media research firm, after reports that he and others engaged …
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The Verge, New York Times, Gizmodo, Business Insider, and Engadget
Tweets: @chrizap, @tarletong, @rmac18, @edbott, @cwarzel, @mattbinder, and @corybe
| Kerry Flynn / Digiday: |
Friends and colleagues remember Colin Kroll, cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia, as an inspiring and talented visionary who built products that made millions happy — In his childhood, Colin Kroll imagined being able to interact with all the TV shows he watched.
Tweets: @digiday, @digiday, @jaykapoornyc, @scottrogowsky, and @kerrymflynn
| Rani Molla / Recode: |
More than half of top 50 shows on Netflix, by one measure, are owned by others like Disney, NBCU, and WarnerMedia, which are planning rival streaming services — Fortunately for the streaming giant, its own shows are popular too. — Many of Netflix's most popular shows are owned by companies that plan to compete with Netflix.Sponsor Posts
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