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| Rashaan Ayesh / Axios: |
Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230 — President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies …
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| New York Times: |
Twitter adds fact-checking labels to hundreds of tweets, even as the Trump administration prepared its EO aiming to curtail Section 230 protections — Twitter continued fact-checking posts even as President Trump threatened to limit protections for social media companies.
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| Yael Halon / Fox News: |
Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: private companies, especially platform companies, shouldn't be the arbiters of truth — Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: Private companies shouldn't be the arbiter of truth — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called out Twitter …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Source: Trump's executive order was rushed through using an old draft that was circulated last year, overriding concerns from agencies and Section 230 reformers — After Twitter slapped a fact-check label on two of President Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots late Tuesday, the president ordered his staff to respond.
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Tweets: @aaschapiro, @bizcarson, @stephenyoungiii, @willflanderswi, @chanelrion, @delwilber, and @karlbode
| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Inside Twitter's decision to fact-check Trump's tweets, while expecting that Trump would respond and the decision could spark a reassessment of Section 230 — ‘We knew from a comms perspective that all hell would break loose,’ says Twitter's vice president of global communications
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
With a tweet, Trump joins his campaign and Fox News in targeting Twitter employee Yoel Roth, after Dorsey asked to keep employees out of it — “It's unfortunate to see individual employees targeted for company decisions — Right-wing media and Trump supporters are targeting a Twitter employee …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Microsoft says the Xbox Series X will support “thousands” of Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One games at launch, doubling the fps in some cases — Thousands of games will be supported on the next-gen Xbox — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox will launch with support for “thousand of games” …
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Tweets: @steinekin, @jamiemoranuk, @xboxbg, @siddarthpaim, @harrisonhoffman, and @majornelson
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces Google Page Experience, an algorithm ranking pages based on user experience, with factors like page speed and HTTPS, arriving in 2021 or later — This new ranking factor won't be live until 2021, at the earliest. Here is what you need to know.
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Google Webmaster Central Blog, Axios, The Verge, XDA Developers, ZDNet, 9to5Google, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @rickbyers, @aleyda, @googlewmc, @backlon, @marie_haynes, @mattnavarra, and @glenngabe
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Chapters, letting creators add timestamps to their videos, for all users across iOS, Android, and desktop — If you've ever found yourself scrubbing your way through a long YouTube video to get to the “good” part, you'll appreciate the new feature YouTube is launching today: Video Chapters.
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The Verge, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Mashable, Engadget, Social Media Today, SlashGear, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @editieffiong and @nwalley
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook says it will now verify identities of users behind profiles that have a “pattern of inauthentic behavior” and whose posts “rapidly go viral” in the US — Facebook has been verifying the identities of Page managers for a while in its quest to stamp out misinformation …
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About Facebook, The Verge, and Social Media Today
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu is testing Watch Party, a social feature that lets viewers watch titles together virtually and chat in groups of up to eight people — With millions of Americans still under quarantine orders, Hulu is introducing a way for subscribers to sit together on the couch — virtually — to stream TV shows and movies at the same time.
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds many tenant screening services, relying on algorithms to find infractions and widely used by landlords, often produce flawed reports — Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports.
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| CNBC: |
Cisco to acquire ThousandEyes, which provides SaaS network performance monitoring, for a price that sources say is ~$1B — - ThousandEyes says its customers include Microsoft, Slack, PayPal and Lyft. — Cisco has been snapping up cloud software companies to make up for slowing growth in its core networking business.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based cloud storage company Wasabi raises $30M Series B led by Forestay Capital, bringing its total raised to $110M — We may be in the thick of a pandemic with all of the economic fallout that comes from that, but certain aspects of technology don't change no matter the external factors.
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| Hudson Lockett / Financial Times: |
Tencent raises $6B in a bond sale in Asia, the largest dollar-denominated bond sale by a Chinese company this year — Companies hungry for dollar funds to see themselves through coronavirus crisis — Tencent has raised $6bn in the latest big-ticket dollar bond sale in Asia … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces its first chips with support for Wi-Fi 6E; chips for routers are shipping now while chips for phones will ship in the second half of 2020 — For phones and routers — Qualcomm is announcing its first chips with support for Wi-Fi 6E, the brand-new version of Wi-Fi …
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SiliconANGLE, CNET, Windows Central, 9to5Mac, Android Police, and XDA Developers
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