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How a group of Dorsey's lieutenants overcame his reluctance to ban Trump's account when it became clear Trump was using his Twitter presence to incite violence — Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, had reservations about locking the president's account. But the calls for violence that his tweets provoked were too overwhelming.
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Analytics firm Zignal Labs: online misinformation about election fraud dropped 73% in the week after several social media sites suspended Trump and key allies — Zignal Labs charts 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work — As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? — SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers.
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| Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson calls out tech leaders for bailing on SF and being rude about it as they leave, says he is staying and working to make the city better — There are plenty of ways to leave a party. — You can quietly say your thanks and goodbyes and be on your way. You can stay a while to help clean up.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
The attack on the Capitol sparked a tense debate among online extremism researchers about crowdsourced efforts to identify the rioters and “ethical doxxing” — The uprising has sparked a tense debate about the right way to stitch together the digital scraps of someone's life to publicly accuse them of committing a crime.
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More than 20 current and former CD Projekt staff say development of Cyberpunk 2077 was marred by unchecked ambition, poor planning, and technical shortcomings — CD Projekt SA Chief Executive Officer Marcin Iwiński made a public mea culpa this week about the disastrous rollout of the video game Cyberpunk 2077 in December.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook — The new update will now go out on May 15th — WhatsApp on Friday announced a three-month delay of a new privacy policy originally slated …
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Facebook says it is temporarily banning ads for gun accessories and military gear through next week's inauguration “out of an abundance of caution” — Following complaints from Senators and employees, Facebook on Saturday said it was temporarily halting ads for gun accessories …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Deliveroo says it has raised $180M in new funding from existing investors led by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management at a $7B+ valuation — Private financing boost for food delivery app ahead of long-awaited stock market debut — Deliveroo's valuation shot up to more than $7bn …
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| Chloe Lo / Bloomberg: |
Yidu Tech, which offers AI software to the health care industry, saw its shares jump 148% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday after raising ~$531M in its IPO — - Health-care tech firm raised $531 million in Hong Kong IPO — Yidu Tech's IPO was very heavily oversubscribed by investors
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Miami PD says it is using facial recognition tech from Clearview AI to identify Capitol rioters, raising concerns among civil liberty and privacy advocates — - Citizens and police sift online trove to find Capitol mob — Facial recognition software used by one police department
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The Hill. Tweets: @jenniferjjacobs, @emmakinery, @profcarroll, @kevinwhitelaw1, and @jaycuthrell
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Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested $10.3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO — BlackRock among groups left holding $10.3bn worth of illiquid stakes in Chinese fintech — Investors including BlackRock …
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| Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: |
A look at the raging debate inside Wikipedia, where neutrality is prized above all, on what to call the attack on the Capitol — On the afternoon of January 6, as a giant crowd began to swarm the U.S. Capitol, Jason Moore, a 36-year-old digital strategist, was at home in Portland, Oregon, switching between CNN and MSNBC.
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