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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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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: since 2018, over 110,000 government officials and candidates have been on a Facebook whitelist that prevented them from being fact checked — During a September 2019 speech in Washington, D.C., Facebook's global policy and communications chief Nick Clegg gave an ardent defense …
Tweets: @rmac18, @rmac18, @davelevitan, @brchastain, @theinformation, @jeffbercovici, @elijsanders, @digiphile, @nickwingfield, @amir, @evelyndouek, @alexeheath, and @alexeheath
| 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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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
YouTube says it barred OANN from posting videos for a week and demonetized its content following a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19 — YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content …
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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 … | 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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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers: Baidu Maps and the Baidu App, with ~1.4B downloads globally, were leaking sensitive user data — Two apps developed by Chinese tech giant Baidu were leaking “sensitive” user data that potentially left as many as 1.4 billion users open to surveillance or cybercrime, researchers claimed on Tuesday.
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| 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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TechCrunch and Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Tweets: @clairegcoleman, @drwaus, @kixes, @sanjanah, @zackwhittaker, @glynmoody, and @adam_k_levin
| Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
Pay-per-mile auto insurance firm Metromile, which has a consumer app and licenses tech to large insurers, says it's going public via a SPAC at a $1.3B valuation — Metromile offers pay-per-mile auto insurance in addition to licensing its technology to large incumbents
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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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Tweets: @twittersupport, @jyuter, @jfkucinich, @wongmjane, @russellholly, @stinson, and @evelyndouek
| 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.| 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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| Rory Jones / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google is laying the groundwork for a fiber-optic network that will connect historical enemies Saudi Arabia and Israel for the first time — New fiber-optic network would connect the historical enemies, avoid Egypt and open a new corridor for internet traffic
Tweets: @jaycuthrell, @avikaner, @alexfrangos, and @saraheneedleman
| 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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| 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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Wall Street Journal, sccgov.org, Ars Technica, The Verge, Morgan Hill Times, Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, CNBC, BBC, Washington Post, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, Input, infosecurity-magazine.com, International Business Times, phonearena.com, Bloomberg, Apple Terminal, The Mac Observer, Silicon Valley Business …, iDownloadBlog.com, Fortune, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @webster, @ftrain, @emmalbriant, @akiperitz, @matthewkeyslive, @kifleswing, @lorakolodny, @paloaltoweekly, @rustybrick, and @2aupdates
| 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.
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Current, FinLedger, and Finextra
Tweets: @current, @naveen, @om, @howardlindzon, @mdudas, @angusdav, and @heatherhartnett
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
VMware reports Q3 revenue of $2.86B, up 8% YoY, vs. $2.81B est., with subscription and SaaS revenue up 44% YoY to $676M, as it raises fiscal year guidance — The company reported Q3 revenue of $2.86 billion, up 8% from a year ago. — VMware delivered better-than-expected third quarter results on Tuesday.
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