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To remain this big and unregulated, Facebook aligns itself with powers that be, as its actions in Myanmar and now in the US show — To stay this big and unregulated, the social media platform can't afford to upset rulers — Oligarchs are immoral business leaders who …
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb had more US bookings from May 17 to June 3 than during the same period in 2019, as vacation-rental sites see domestic reservations increase globally — - Weekend getaways are turning into work-from-home respites — Airbnb hasn't ruled out an IPO this year, CEO Chesky says
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to roll out 12-month interest-free Apple Card payment plans for iPads, Macs, more and 6-month plans for AirPods, Apple TV, and HomePod — - Company gearing up for monthly installments for Apple Card — Similar feature for iPhone purchases already available on card
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Overall, remote learning this spring didn't work: schools disagree on fair student assessment, students lack equal access to technology, teaching got harder — The pandemic forced schools into a crash course in online education. Problems piled up quickly. ‘I find it hectic and stressful’| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
More than 140 scientists funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urge Mark Zuckerberg to reconsider Facebook's policies on misinformation and incendiary language — More than 140 scientists funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urged Mark Zuckerberg to enforce stricter policies around …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
The struggle between real information and fake information is not too different from the fight against spam email, which took a long time but was worth fighting — To put it mildly, the last ten days have been tough to watch. Following the news triggers anger, and it makes me feel ashamed.| Chen Du / PingWest: |
Sources: ByteDance has recently implemented a restriction on employees in China from accessing code bases for overseas products like TikTok — ByteDance has been erecting technical firewalls between its China and global operations for more than a year, PingWest has learned …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Israeli court sentences the co-owners of vDOS, a now defunct DDoS-for-hire service, to six months of community service — The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Three Amazon workers file lawsuit alleging that Amazon has failed to adequately protect workers from COVID-19 by not following CDC's contact tracing guidelines — - A lawsuit filed by three Amazon workers calls into question the company's contact tracing efforts.
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| Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: |
Google Docs is a key tool for organizing protests, as activists anonymously edit public lists of funds, charities, books on racism, and letter-writing templates — Facebook and Twitter might have the bells and whistles, but the word processing doc's simplicity and accessibility have made it a winning tool.
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| Atlantic Council: |
How Tunisia-based PR firm UReputation used social media platforms and websites to spread disinformation and influence elections in 10 African countries — In-Depth Research & Reports by Andy Carvin, Luiza Bandeira, Graham Brookie, Iain Robertson, Nika Aleksejeva, Alyssa Kann, Kanishk Karan … | Renee Dudley / ProPublica: |
Review finds Amazon is using the top-left slot of its search results pages, a premier bid slot for brands, to promote its private labels during the pandemic — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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