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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Twitter placed sharing restrictions on a tweet from Trump alleging election theft while Facebook added labels warning that tonight's results may not be final  —  Facebook warns tonight's results might not be final, Twitter limits spread  —  After a night in which President Donald Trump …
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Study: YouTube's recent efforts to fight misinfo by cutting recommendations to fringe channels worked but made Fox News the most recommended for election videos
New York Times:
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information
The Information:
Two senior executives at Lyft, in charge of strategic initiatives and design, respectively, are leaving the firm on the eve of California's vote on Prop 22  —  Two senior executives at Lyft, in charge of strategic initiatives and design, are leaving the ride-hailing firm, The Information has learned.
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
California sides with Uber, Lyft, DoorDash on Prop 22, will exempt the companies from requiring them to classify workers as employees  —  Gig economy giants including Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and DoorDash Inc. have won their effort to pass a hotly contested ballot measure that will exempt …
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Some Instagram users see a banner that says Election Day is tomorrow, not today; Facebook says it was cached for a “small group” of users  —  On Election Day, a subset of Instagram users woke up to a message at the top of their Instagram feeds that read, “Tomorrow is Election Day.”
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac:
Spotify begins rolling out support for streaming audio from its standalone Apple Watch app  —  Back in September, we saw Spotify finally start testing streaming support for its Apple Watch app, something we've seen arrive with other third-party services like Pandora months ago.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast and Walmart to develop and distribute smart TVs together; TVs will run Comcast software and Walmart will promote them for a recurring revenue  —  Under the terms being discussed, the retail giant would promote TV sets running Comcast software and receive share of recurring revenue
New York Times:
Ant Group says its IPO has been suspended in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, after Chinese regulators summoned Jack Ma and other executives of the company  —  The Shanghai Stock Exchange postponed the offering one day after regulators summoned Jack Ma and other executives of the financial technology giant.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
US Cyber Command and the NSA say they took actions against Iranian hackers in recent weeks to deter election interference, but did not specify actions taken  —  U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency have taken recent actions to ensure that foreign actors do not interfere in the 2020 election …
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:
PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $5.46B, up 25% YoY, as it adds 15.2M net new active accounts; Venmo's total processed payment volume rises 61% YoY to $44B

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The White House TV pool remained suspended as of Thursday evening, as networks awaited a formal White House agreement to let CNN participate again in the pool

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: MGM Resorts is weighing a bid to purchase Barry Diller's People Incorporated, after Diller withdrew People's bid to buy MGM; People holds ~27% of MGM

Todd Spangler / Variety:
The judge in the Paramount-WBD antitrust case holds off on approving a settlement until parties respond to concerns outlined in a letter by Senator Cory Booker

More News

Washington Post:
DHS and the FBI are investigating a robocall and text campaign warning US voters to “stay safe and stay home”
Eric Berger / Ars Technica:
NASA says AST & Science's plan to build a broadband network via a constellation of satellites carries an unusually high risk of causing an orbital collision
Wall Street Journal:
Semiconductor manufacturing has further shifted to Asia in recent years from US and EU, with many US chip companies contracting out to Asian producers like TSMC

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BuzzFeed News:
Internal Facebook survey shows only 51% believe Facebook was having a positive impact in the world, down 23% from May and down 5.5% from last year
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS introduces new GPU-equipped P4 instances, powered by Intel Cascade Lake processors and Nvidia's A100 Tensor Core GPUs, offering 2.5x DL performance over P3
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple announces November 10 event where Apple Silicon Macs are expected to debut; invites are titled “One more thing.”
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