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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’
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| 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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Tweets: @stshank and @jordanmorgan10
| 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
| 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.| Jennifer Strong / MIT Technology Review: |
Interview with Hamid Khan, founder of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, on racism in police surveillance, and his view that algorithms have no place in policing — Hamid Khan is winning his fight for the abolition of surveillance technology used by the LAPD … Tell us about your work.| Australian Competition and Consumer Commission: |
Australian court fines Sony Europe ~$2.4M for denying customers refunds for faulty PlayStation games and for misrepresenting consumer rights — The Federal Court has ordered Sony Interactive Entertainment Network Europe Limited (Sony Europe) to pay $3.5 million in penalties for making false …
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CNET, GameSpot, Game Rant, Laptop Mag, VG247, Stevivor, Reuters, Gamasutra, Kotaku, Engadget, PC Games Insider, Dot Esports, Neowin, and GamesIndustry.biz. Tweets: @acccgovau
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Shift4 Payments, which provides payments processing software for the hospitality industry, closed up 46% on first day of trading, after raising $345M in its IPO — Referenced Symbols — Investors voiced enthusiasm Friday for a payments business highly levered to an economic rebound.
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