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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Social media algorithms amplify the reach of incendiary, misinformation-filled, conspiracy theories, and users have no control over them — What you see in your feeds isn't up to you. What's at stake is no longer just missing a birthday. It's your sanity—and world peace.
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OneZero and John Battelle's Search Blog
| Benedict Evans: |
Social platforms are neither communication services nor publishers, and society will have to evolve new norms to regulate speech on them — What mattered in tech this week? — Once a week, I send a newsletter to 150k people - what happened in tech that actually mattered, and what it means.
Tweets: @benedictevans, @stevesi, and @robinkwong
| Joan Donovan / HBR.org: |
The dominant business model of social media platforms, which emphasizes scale over everything else, makes them particularly vulnerable to disinformation — Summary. — The attack on the U.S. Capitol building was the culmination of years of disinformation and conspiracy theories that had been weaponized on social media networks.
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
GitHub apologizes to the employee it fired for using the term “Nazis” on January 6, offers him his job back, and says the company's head of HR has resigned — The company is offering the employee his job back — GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: in a flurry of parting actions against China, Trump's admin has notified Huawei suppliers including Intel that it's revoking licenses to sell to Huawei — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel …
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Tweets: @samir_madani, @reuters, and @jacob_t_gunter
| New York Times: |
A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit — Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.
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Engadget, The Keyword, and ZDNet
| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y. Lee was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bribery charges; Lee still faces a second prosecution related to succession — - Lee sentenced to two and a half years in jail after court case — Samsung succession scandal has rocked South Korea for years
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BBC, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, AppleInsider, ZDNet, SamMobile, coinspeaker.com, Financial Times, Android Headlines, Neowin, and Reuters
Tweets: @markets, @tomi, and @soheefication
| Anshuman Daga / Reuters: |
Sources: Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is considering an IPO in the US this year that could raise at least $2B — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is exploring a listing in the United States this year … | Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Maps.me, an offline mobile map for travelers, raises $50M seed led by Alameda Research, aims to launch “yield earning” DeFi tools inside the app — The funding will go toward the launch of a multi-currency wallet on Maps.me, enabling decentralized finance (DeFi) features for 140 million users.
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Decrypt, Tech.eu, InsideBitcoins.com, CryptoNinjas.net, coinspeaker.com, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and The Block
Tweets: @coindesk and @jerallaire
| Medium: |
A look at the shady aspects of Tether, the stablecoin being probed by SDNY for over a year, widely used to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies on many exchanges — This is the story of a Bitcoin trade — the most financially impactful trade I've ever made in my life.
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The Capital and CoinDesk
Tweets: @balajis, @bitcoinlawyer, @balajis, @sociablebarely, @dfauchier, @jerallaire, @nouriel, @felixsalmon, @dfauchier, @markjeffrey, @dfauchier, @balajis, @dfauchier, @dfauchier, @hammertoe, @hkanji, @joncottonuk, @nlw, @dfauchier, and @dfauchier
| Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T, Verizon, and other bidders have spent a record $80.9B during the 5G spectrum auction, expected to lead to a wave of borrowing for the indebted sector — AT&T, Verizon expected to turn to bond markets and banks to finance bids in record-setting FCC airwaves auction
Tweets: @natesafety
| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Due to Apple's security limitations and additional work required, few developers are bothering to port Chrome extensions to Safari, despite WebExtensions API — At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensions API) in Safari.Sponsor Posts
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