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Angela Merkel says social media's ban of the president's accounts is “problematic” and rules governing speech should happen by law, a sentiment echoed by France — - Chancellor Merkel calls Trump's ban on Twitter ‘problematic’ — France's Beaune says private actors shouldn't have such power| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Twitter stock fell 7%+ in first trading since permanently banning Trump; one analyst says Twitter could be inviting regulation by making editorial decisions — - Platform confirmed move in blog post after Capitol violence — Ban shows Twitter is making editorial decisions, says analyst
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After years of dodging the issue, social media platforms finally seem to acknowledge that they are not just a communication space but a conflict space — Platform companies have finally come to grips with their roles as owners of battlefields. — By the numbers, no person in human history …
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Parler sues Amazon after its AWS suspension, leveling far-fetched antitrust allegations including the claim that Amazon hopes to reduce competition for Twitter — Parler has sued Amazon after the beleaguered conservative social media site was expelled from AWS, filing a fanciful complaint alleging …
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline — In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump's supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue …
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Facebook says it is now removing content containing the phrase “stop the steal”, under Facebook and Instagram's Coordinating Harm policy — We began preparing for Inauguration Day last year. But our planning took on new urgency after last week's violence in Washington, D.C. …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Facebook says it's freezing all contributions from its PAC through at least Q1 as it reviews its political spending, joining Microsoft and Google — Facebook is halting political spending for at least the first quarter of 2021 following last week's deadly attack on the Capitol.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
IDC: PC shipments for 2020 were up 13.1% YoY, the most annual growth in the market since 2010's 13.7% increase — The PC is far from dead — The PC was supposed to die 10 years ago, but it's just experienced its first big growth in a decade. Market research firm Canalys reports …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel unveils four chip families, including Intel Core H-series for laptop gaming and Core vPro focused on hardware-based security, for the enterprise market — Intel is aiming for a comeback, and today, it unveiled four new processor families that it will deliver in 2021.
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Facebook hires Roy L. Austin, Jr., a renowned civil rights attorney and advocate, to establish a new civil rights organization inside Facebook — Civil rights attorney Roy L. Austin, Jr., who focused on policing in the Obama administration, first at the Justice Department and then at the White House …
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| Melissa Repko / CNBC: |
Walmart says it will launch a fintech start-up, with Ribbit Capital owning a minority share in the new company — - Walmart said Monday that it will launch a fintech start-up with Ribbit Capital, one of the investment firms behind Robinhood. — The retail giant interacts with millions of customers …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
LG says Google Stadia and Nvidia's GeForce Now are coming to its latest TVs in the second half of 2021 — Game streaming comes natively to the TV screen — LG has announced that it's bringing two of the leading cloud gaming services, Google Stadia and Nvidia's GeForce Now, to its newest TVs later this year.
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| Evelyn Douek / Lawfare: |
Facebook should refer its decision to indefinitely block Trump to its Oversight Board, even though the board typically reviews individual pieces of content — While Congress works out what form of accountability it will impose on President Trump for inciting insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week …
Tweets: @mosseri, @benyt, @cat_zakrzewski, @evelyndouek, and @jonward11
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Muslim prayer app Salaat First, with 10M+ Android downloads, tracks users' location in the UK, Germany, France, and Italy and sells it to data broker Predicio — Salaat First has more than ten million downloads and sold location data to Predicio, which is linked to a U.S. contractor which works with ICE.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Following Trump's ban on Facebook and Twitter, alternative social apps and private messengers top the app stores, including Signal, Telegram, MeWe, and CloutHub — Alternative social media apps including MeWe, CloutHub and other privacy-focused rivals to big tech, are topping … | Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
As tensions rise, China has found a subtle way to make life difficult for US tech companies: slowing down regulatory approval for acquisitions and other deals — Slow approval from Beijing is dragging out big technology deals, costing American companies time and money — Patience may be a virtue.
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Intercontinental Exchange says its crypto venture Bakkt will go public via a SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation — ICE's Bakkt crypto venture plans to roll out an app for trading and making payments with digital assets — Intercontinental Exchange Inc., or ICE, will take its cryptocurrency venture public …
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| Emily Czachor / Newsweek: |
North Idaho ISP Your T1 WIFI will block Facebook and Twitter for customers that request it after it received complaints over censorship — Your T1 WiFi, an internet service provider based in northwestern Idaho, will implement firewalls that restrict access to Facebook and Twitter at its customers' requests.
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Amazon, Walmart, and others are using AI to decide whether it makes economic sense to skip returns and let customers keep the products, which is often cheaper — In some cases, it's cheaper for the retailers to refund the purchase price and let customers keep or donate the productsSponsor Posts
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