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Twitter says it is now letting the NY Post link be shared because the info had spread so widely that it can no longer be considered private — The latest change underlined how rapidly social media platforms are shifting their positions in the days leading up to the election.
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Facebook and Twitter deserve some credit for rapidly restricting the New York Post hack-and-leak operation that made allegations about Hunter Biden — In a New York Post report, Facebook and Twitter smell a rat — I. — In the run-up to the 2020 election, platforms have been preparing for all manner of threats.
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Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era — Facebook's chief, once uninterested, has transformed himself into an active political operator in the Trump era
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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Google says Chinese state-linked hacker group, known as APT31, has been using malware on GitHub to upload and download files on networks in targeted attacks — Former vice president Joe Biden. Chinese hackers have unsuccessfully targeted the campaign, according to Google. (Flickr / Gage Skidmore)
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Broadvoice, a VoIP provider for SMBs, has leaked 350M+ customer records, including thousands of voicemail transcripts, many including medical and financial info — Broadvoice, a well-known VoIP provider that serves small- and medium-sized businesses, has leaked more than 350 million customer records related … | Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
Twitter will now warn users with a prompt before they attempt to retweet or quote tweet a post that has been flagged under the platform's misinformation rules — Twitter has added another warning prompt to slow the spread of misinformation, this time alerting users when they go to share …
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
At an all-hands, Brian Armstrong said a “silent majority” at Coinbase agreed with his apolitical stance; COO said some staff were asked to delete Slack posts — An internal all-hands meeting obtained by Motherboard shows Coinbase management was accused of “stunting internal discussion” …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU data protection authority finds IAB Europe's GDPR consent framework, adopted by Google and others, fails to meet required legal standards of data protection — A flagship framework for gathering Internet users' consent for targeting with behavioral ads — which is designed by ad industry body …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nextdoor is considering going public, through a direct listing or merger with a SPAC, targeting a $4B-$5B valuation; it was last valued at $2.2B in '19 — - Social network for neighbors had rebuffed SPACs in the past — Company was last valued at $2.2 billion in September 2019| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Watch with Family Setup, Apple's take on GPS tracking smartwatches for kids, has features like Schooltime mode while offering strong privacy, but is very costly — Apple's take on a GPS tracker for kids is unique but costly — The most interesting Apple Watch product Apple announced …
Tweets: @dcseifert, @verge, @edgar_a_bitch, @ow, and @backlon
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK's ICO reduces British Airways fine for a data breach, in which the personal details of more than 400,000 customers were leaked, from ~£184M to £20M — One of the biggest data breaches in UK corporate history has been closed off by regulators not with a bang, but a whimper — as a result of Covid-19.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google details how it is using AI to improve search, including indexing individual passages from webpages, allowing searches for songs by humming, and more — During a livestreamed event this afternoon, Google detailed the ways it's applying AI and machine learning to improve the Google Search experience.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal and some PE firms approached Disney earlier this year about acquiring Hulu or operating it as a partnership, but were rebuffed — Toward the end of 2019, Hulu delivered a proposal to Walt Disney Co., its controlling shareholder, outlining a strategy to expand … | Bloomberg: |
Ajit Pai says FCC will start a rulemaking to clarify the meaning of Section 230, and social media doesn't have “special immunity denied to other media outlets” — - Agency chief says it will conduct rulemaking Trump sought — Analysts question authority of agency to issue regulations
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