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Facebook says it will not fact-check ads by UK political parties and candidates running in December election, but will fact-check political groups like Leave.EU — Facebook's political ad policy under pressure — London and New York (CNN Business)A controversial policy allowing politicians …
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| Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times: |
Vetting political ads effectively and consistently at global scale is impossible; Congress should restrict ad targeting to the level of an electoral district — It's not about free speech. — Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Twitter's ban on political and issue ads will let companies advertise things like fossil fuel-based products but ban ads from activists advocating against them — The company's feel-good decision is already a mess. — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday that the company …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest — The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Google to acquire Fitbit at $7.35 per share in cash, valuing the company at about $2.1B — - The acquisition pits Alphabet against fellow tech giant Apple in the wearable fitness tracking space. — Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018.
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Trump has integrated Twitter into the very fabric of his administration, and, via more than 11,000 tweets, has reshaped the presidency — With a single tweet last fall, Mr. Trump sent his administration into a tailspin. “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught …
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| Darla Mercado / CNBC: |
Brian Chesky says Airbnb will ban “party houses” after five people died in a shooting at a Halloween party in a California home rented through the service — - Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, tweeted on Saturday that the company would bar “party houses” and step up its efforts against unauthorized parties.
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| Gaurav Shukla / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Global smartphone shipments in Q3 grew 2% YoY according to Strategy Analytics, while Canalys estimates 1% increase, bucking a two-year downward trend — Samsung grabbed the top spot with over 78 million smartphone shipments in Q3 2019. — HIGHLIGHTS — Global smartphone shipments bucked … | Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News: |
Google releases patch for a Chrome zero-day vulnerability being used in the wild that allows hackers to escape sandbox protections via malicious websites — Attention readers, if you are using Chrome on your Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, you need to update your web browsing software immediately …
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Tweets: @craiu, @jyap, @kaspersky, @thegrugq, @thehackersnews, @amitbhawani, and @nixcraft. Thanks:@abhijeetmk
| Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: |
Russia's “sovereign internet” law, which aims to enable disconnecting the country's internet from the rest of the world, went into effect on Friday — - The law tightens Moscow's control over the country's internet infrastructure and aims to provide a way for Russia to disconnect its networks from the rest of the world.
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Tweets: @wedfglobal, @dolgiona, @kenroth, @petercoffee, @npr, @kooyjan, @penamerica, and @stratcomcoe. Thanks:@eschulze9
| Ed Niedermeyer / TechCrunch: |
A look at the hidden complexities of an autonomous taxi service, after taking a fully driverless ride, now being tested as part of Waymo One service in Phoenix — After more than a decade, Waymo's driverless ride-hailing service is open to customers — Ed Niedermeyer is an author, columnist and co-host of The Autonocast.| Caroline Haskins / BuzzFeed News: |
How student surveillance service Gaggle monitors online activities of about 5M US students for “suspicious or harmful content” using AI and human moderators — Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5 million students in the US, and schools are paying big money for its services.
Tweets: @carolineha_, @loisbeckett, @mediasee, and @trekonomics
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