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Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently — Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company's bottom line.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it will relaunch account verifications in early 2021 for six categories, including news, companies, and government officials, and asks for feedback — Twitter announced today it's planning to relaunch its verification system in 2021, and will now begin the process …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter will now show a warning when someone tries to like a tweet labeled for misinformation and says such warnings decreased quote retweets of misinfo by 29% — The company already displays a warning when you try to retweet a labeled tweet — Ahead of the 2020 election …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers: Baidu Maps and the Baidu App, with ~1.4B downloads globally, were leaking sensitive user data; Baidu Maps remains removed from Google's Play Store — Two apps developed by Chinese tech giant Baidu were leaking “sensitive” user data that potentially left as many as 1.4 billion users open …
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| Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: |
Apple's M1 Macs are impressive but some may want to pass on them for now due to incompatibility or stability issues with apps like Matlab, Parallels, and Docker — I've read the first batch of Apple MacBook Pro 13" M1 reviews from the Apple-chosen first reviewers and you'd be hard to find anything negative about the new laptop.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: WaPo is nearing 3M digital subscribers, up 50% YoY; NYT has tripled digital-only subscribers since 2016 to 6.1M — The New York Times and The Washington Post have very different strategies for building the subscription news company of the future. — The big picture …
Tweets: @joshsternberg, @mathewi, @sarafischer, @axios, @farhip, @kerrymflynn, @walegates, @ylichterman, and @axios
| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Home insurance tech startup Hippo says it has raised $350M in new financing from Japan-based MS&AD Insurance, following its $150M Series E in July — Insuretech unicorn Hippo Enterprises Inc. on Tuesday said it raised $350 million in its second megafunding of the year.
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| Justin Hendry / iTnews: |
Australian Government agency IGIS says one or more of the country's intelligence and security agencies collected data related to COVIDSafe contact tracing app — But not decrypted, access or used, IGIS says. — One or more of Australia's key intelligence and security agencies “incidentally” …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mobile banking app Current raises $131M Series C led by Tiger Global Management, giving it a valuation of $750M, and touts over 2M members — U.S. challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Court filings show Amazon defeated a lawsuit where eBay had claimed that Amazon coordinated a campaign to poach sellers from its platform — eBay couldn't prove it suffered harm — Amazon has prevailed in a lawsuit claiming it secretly poached eBay sellers.| Sue Dremann / Palo Alto Online: |
Apple's head of global security Thomas Moyer indicted for trying to bribe Santa Clara sheriff's office with 200 iPads in return for concealed firearm permits — Defendants include Sheriff Laurie Smith's second-in-command — Four people, including top brass in the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it is partnering with US government's counterfeit watchdog to conduct “targeted inspections” of suspected fake goods — - Amazon partners with U.S. intellectual property center — Counterfeits a sore spot for shoppers, brands on Amazon
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| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
AppsFlyer, which helps businesses evaluate ad campaign performance, extends its Series D from $210M to $225M+ from Salesforce and others at a $2B valuation — The company, which says it is now valued at $2 billion, sells mobile analytics software that weighs the effectiveness of ad campaigns
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