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An inside look at Facebook News Feeds of two baby boomers for three weeks around Election Day showed that comments were a primary source of debunked claims — Many Americans' feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. — Opinion writer at large.| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Avaaz study: a small group of mostly right-wing Facebook accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of false posts about voter fraud — Researchers have found that a small group of social media accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of the false posts about voter fraud.
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Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed; Slack stock jumps 30%+ while Salesforce falls ~4% — A deal would likely value Slack at more than $17 billion and mark Salesforce's largest acquisition ever — Salesforce.com Inc. has recently …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Apple stands by head of global security Thomas Moyer, indicted on bribery charges: “We conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing” — Sheriff's office allegedly sought 200 iPads in trade for concealed carry permits. — A grand jury in California's …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo says Apple will introduce redesigned MacBooks with Apple Silicon and an Apple Watch with a new form factor, both in the second half of 2021 — In a report today, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared his view on Apple's product momentum heading into the holidays.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
AWS says it is experiencing an outage in a North American region that has been ongoing for over two hours, affecting Roku, Flickr, Adobe Spark, and others — It's not just you — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December — Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).| Financial Times: |
Sources: Facebook and Google are among the companies that French authorities demanded payment of a digital tax for 2020 in recent days — Facebook and Amazon among companies issued with requests that could trigger retaliatory tariffs — French tax authorities have begun demanding millions …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: IBM is planning to cut 10,000 jobs in Europe, or 20% of staff in the region, to lower costs in its services unit as it prepares for a spinoff — - U.K. and Germany are set to be most impacted regions — Big Blue focuses on hybrid cloud computing, AI businesses
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Xbox chief Phil Spencer on gaming trends during the pandemic, releasing two consoles at once, xCloud distribution on Android and iOS, and more — The holiday season is always huge for gaming, but this year, it's even bigger: a new console generation has arrived with Microsoft's …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Interpol arrests three suspected members of Nigerian email scam group TMT and says the group's malware has infected 50K+ organizations in 150 countries — The TMT group has infected more than 50,000 organizations around the world with malware. — Three Nigerians suspected of being part … | Dan Weil / TheStreet: |
Square buys Credit Karma Tax unit from Intuit for $50M and will integrate its free tax filing service into Cash App — Square (SQ) - Get Report shares rose Wednesday after the payments company said it's buying Credit Karma's tax unit for $50 million cash. — Credit Karma Tax …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DC AG says DoorDash settled over claims it misled users over allocating driver tips, will pay $2.5M, and ensure earned tips don't reduce base pay — - DoorDash reached a $2.5 million settlement with the attorney general of the District of Columbia over claims the company misled consumers …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
An EU proposal for a data marketplace aims to offer protections for corporate and public-service data, as GDPR only covers individuals — New EU proposal aims to offer protections for corporate and public-service data as GDPR covers individuals — The European Union wants to take control …
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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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| Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Facebook will pay $300+ each to 1.57M Illinois residents who made claims following $650M facial recognition suit, a quarter of the 6M eligible residents — Facebook Inc. will be making payouts to only about a quarter of the 6 million Illinois residents eligible for the biggest consumer privacy settlement in U.S. history.
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