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November 29, 2019, 2:30 AM

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Ina Fried / Axios:
Twitter pauses its plan to delete inactive accounts, after concerns were raised about deceased users, until it creates a way to memorialize accounts  —  Twitter said Wednesday it was putting on hold a plan to delete inactive accounts amid concerns that accounts from deceased users would be swept up in the purge.
Newsroom | TikTok:
TikTok says it didn't block US teen's account with Uighur persecution video, but did block device associated with her other account banned for bin Laden pic  —  There has been significant interest and confusion regarding a user's two TikTok accounts and her viral video talking about the Uighur community in China.
Leo Kelion / BBC:
Dara Kerr / CNET:
Unauthorized Uber drivers, including convicted felons with fake IDs, have surfaced in cities beyond London, including San Francisco, Houston, and Boston  —  Turns out that unauthorized drivers using fake identification isn't just a London problem.  —  Uber faced a blow on Monday …
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Rita El Khoury / Android Police:
Google Photos starts rolling out manual face tagging, lets users tag faces that Google's algorithm detects but doesn't recognize  —  A few months ago, Google Photos product lead, David Lieb, told us that manually tagging faces was on the app's update roadmap.
Agence France-Presse:
LG announces CEO Jo Seong-jin will be replaced by Brian Kwon Dec. 1, amid 2020 leadership shakeup and LG smartphone division's 18th straight quarterly loss  —  CEO Jo Seong-jin, dubbed a “washing machine genius”, was appointed in December 2016, and is respected in South Korea for his unlikely journey …
BBC:
Apple meets Russia's demands to show Crimea as part of Russia for Russian Apple Maps users; elsewhere on Apple Maps, Crimea isn't shown as part of any country  —  Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps.

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