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June 29, 2020, 11:20 AM

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Washington Post:
Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US  —  Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come.
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Vox:
Interviews and documents shed light on Amazon's warehouse policies, exposing inconsistent health and safety protocols and tactics used to quell rising tensions  —  “I feel like I'm risking my life for a dollar” — what the struggle Amazon workers face during the pandemic says about the future of work in America.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Confidential Computing Consortium, which wants to standardize the way data is encrypted while in use, adds 10 members, including AMD, Facebook, and Nvidia  —  An industry group called the Confidential Computing Consortium, which aims to standardize the way that data is encrypted while in use …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi on Microsoft shutting Mixer down, Twitch's market power, the need for low latency streaming, and his own startup journey  —  Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive …
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Ari Levy / CNBC:
As Republicans flock to Parler, its CEO says its user base has grown 50% to 1.5M in about a week, and it is trying to pay liberals on Twitter to join  —  - Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said.  — Republican politicians …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box, instead introducing a 20W power adapter to be sold separately  —  Apple is set to be significantly slimming its packaging for its upcoming iPhone line.  The analyst previously said that Apple will no longer include wired earbuds …

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