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[Thread] Alexis Ohanian resigns from the Reddit board, urges company to fill his seat with a black candidate, pledges $1M to Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp — I co-founded @reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging. It is long overdue to do the right thing. I'm doing this for me, for my family, and for my country.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Reddit pledges to honor Ohanian's request to appoint a black director, says it'll update content moderation policies to “explicitly address hate” within weeks — Founder to leave controversial discussion platform, saying resignation can be ‘act of leadership’| Washington Post: |
An internal poll and documents show widespread anxiety inside Facebook as employees questioned whether Facebook is in an “abusive relationship” with Trump — A week of internal debates shows widespread anxiety over how the company will handle abuse going into 2020 …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub — - CEO to look at policies on voter suppression, state force — Facebook will launch a voter hub for vetted information
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| Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast: |
LinkedIn CEO apologizes after several anonymous staffers share opinions echoing the skeptics of Black Lives Matter at an internal town hall on racial injustice — The highly professional social network's internal Wednesday town hall on racial injustice looked more like what you'd see in a Facebook comments section.
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| Jonathan Easley / The Hill: |
Twitter and Facebook remove a video tribute to George Floyd posted by Trump's campaign, after receiving a copyright complaint under DMCA — Twitter on Thursday removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President Trump's reelection campaign, claiming it had run afoul of the website's policy on copyrighted material.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches the Password Manager Resources project on Github, to make it easier for developers of password manager apps to create strong passwords — Apple has announced today that it is launching an open source project designed for developers of password managers.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instacart changes how it handles tips, including deactivating customers who “consistently and egregiously” engage in tip-baiting, after a Congressional inquiry — The company let customers bait Instacart shoppers with big tips and remove them after the fact
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| The Information: |
Media Matters is considering sending a letter urging advertisers to rethink spending on Facebook after Mark Zuckerberg's choice to leave up a Trump post — Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog best known for getting advertisers to pull their spots from Fox News, has its eye on a new target: Facebook.
Tweets: @jessicalessin and @alexeheath
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower and Apptopia say Twitter broke US and worldwide single-day download records this week with 600K+ downloads and 40M US DAUs on Thursday — Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Asana raised about $200M by issuing convertible debt, with Dustin Moskovitz as main lender, ahead of its planned IPO via a direct listing in H2 2020 — - Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Facebook before he started Asana — Asana is aiming to do a direct listing as early as the fall
Tweets: @teddyschleifer, @katie_roof, @lianabaker, and @katie_roof
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: Grubhub has received interest to merge from Europe-based Just Eat Takeaway and Delivery Hero as a deal with Uber faces antitrust concerns — - Grubhub has received interest from at least two European companies — Delivery Hero and Just Eat Takeaway.com — as potential acquirers, according to people familiar with the matter.| Lindsay Clark / The Register: |
UK government publishes the contracts National Health Service signed with Microsoft, Google, Faculty, and Palantir to create a COVID-19 datastore — Questions linger over involvement of biz linked to Dominic Cummings and Vote Leave campaign — UK government has published the contracts …
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| Jennifer Strong / MIT Technology Review: |
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