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Twitter and Facebook labeled a message from Trump alleging election theft; Twitter restricted sharing of the tweet, but Facebook didn't reduce the post's spread — Facebook warns tonight's results might not be final, Twitter limits spread — After a night in which President Donald Trump …
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Facebook and Instagram add large pop-ups atop feeds telling users that no presidential election winner has been declared, after Trump prematurely claims victory — Facebook and Instagram are running notifications in their respective apps informing U.S. users that the winner …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and other tech stocks rally with Nasdaq up 4.4%+ as vote counting continues across swing states — Update: The Nasdaq Composite is now up 4.45% and SaaS and cloud stocks up a simply massive 6.7%. Whatever was driving the rally this morning appears to be still at it in the early afternoon.
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Facebook clarifies its rules and says it will allow premature victory declarations in individual states but not for the presidential election — Facebook Inc. has clarified its rules and said it won't flag President Trump or any other individual who declares victory for a candidate in battleground states before votes are counted.| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
California sides with Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and others on Prop 22, exempting the companies from having to reclassify 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 …
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| Sara Morrison / Vox: |
California's Proposition 24 is set to expand and strengthen CA's recent privacy law, the CCPA, and create a Privacy Protection Agency to help enforce the rules — Alastair Mactaggart (center), board chair and founder of Californians for Consumer Privacy, testifies before the Senate Commerce …
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Portland, Maine votes to ban the use of facial recognition by police and city agencies, entitling surveilled citizens to $1,000+ — Private citizens are entitled to a minimum of $1,000 in fines if they are subjected to a facial recognition scan by police — Portland, Maine has passed …
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Massachusetts voters pass a right-to-repair expansion governing vehicle data, preventing manufacturers from locking out third parties — One election night issue that has appears to have an answer already is the passage of Question 1 in Massachusetts, which asked voters …
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Ethereum Foundation says Ethereum 2.0 is set to launch on December 1 if enough validators are present on the network — The first version of Ethereum 2.0 is set to launch on December 1, according to an Ethereum Foundation blog post today, as long as certain criteria are met.| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
FCC says T-Mobile will pay a $200M fine to settle claims Sprint was illegitimately drawing excess subsidies from the Lifeline phone program for low-income users — T-Mobile will pay a $200 million civil penalty to the U.S. Treasury to resolve an investigation into whether Sprint … | Firat Kozok / Bloomberg: |
Source: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok were each fined $1.2M by Turkey for failing to appoint a local representative as required by a new law — - YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok also fined $1.2 million — Firms failed to appoint a local representative as required| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Comcast and Walmart to develop and distribute smart TVs together; TVs will run Comcast software and Walmart will promote them with a revenue split — Under the terms being discussed, the retail giant would promote TV sets running Comcast software and receive share of recurring revenue
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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.
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