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Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules — The Board has upheld Facebook's decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump's access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account.
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| Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: |
The Oversight Board's decision on Trump's Facebook ban failed to send a clear message that a powerful public official can't use Facebook to endanger the public — In more than 1,400 posts from Jan. 1, 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump used Facebook to spread false information with devastating consequences for the country.
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| New York Times: |
Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook — Nick Clegg, a former deputy prime minister, has shaped the company's handling of Donald Trump at every turn.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Jeff Bezos beat the National Enquirer by bypassing media and appealing directly to regular people, retaliating with the brutal efficiency used to build Amazon — When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is rolling out improved prompts that discourage “harmful” language, first to iOS and then Android, after studies showed prompts were effective — A year ago, Twitter began testing a feature that would prompt users to pause and reconsider before they replied to a tweet using …
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| Danielle Partis / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Following the departure of Google Stadia's head of product John Justice, a further six employees have left Stadia to work at Haven Studios, founded by an ex-VP — Former Stadia general manager Sebastien Puel is a co-founder of Jade Raymond's new venture — A further six members of staff …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Google relaxes WFH rules to let more staff work remotely, expecting 20% to be fully remote, 20% to move sites, 60% to return to offices a few days a week — Google is giving its employees more flexibility to work from different locations or entirely from home, taking a more lenient policy …
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook is rolling out Neighborhoods, which helps people get to know their neighbors and local community, in four US cities and Canada — Facebook is testing a new tool aimed at helping people get to know their neighbors and local communities, taking on social media app Nextdoor.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
As Netflix prepped limited tests to drop Apple's IAPs, Apple told Netflix these tests would “limit co-marketing opportunities, including on-store featuring” — New internal emails and presentation documents revealed as part of the Epic vs. Apple show how Apple attempted … | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Uber Q1: $2.9B revenue, below estimates, as net loss shrinks to $108M from $968M QoQ due to self-driving unit sale; delivery gross revenue up 166% YoY to $12.5B — - Uber reported first quarter results after-the-bell on Wednesday. — Overall, Uber's net loss was $108 million … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher details a Peloton API bug that let anyone access private account info, which initially went unpatched until a reporter contacted Peloton — But the company won't say if it has evidence of malicious exploitation. — Halfway through my Monday afternoon workout last week …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Tencent is in talks with CFIUS to negotiate agreements that would allow the company to keep its ownership stakes in Riot Games and Epic Games — Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) is negotiating agreements with a U.S. national security panel that would allow it to keep its ownership stakes …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Profile of MrBeast, the most subscribed YouTuber in the US, who took a bumpy road to fame through stunt philanthropy, as he branches out into other businesses — Jimmy Donaldson, 22, is out to become the Elon Musk of online creators. — Jimmy Donaldson, 22, a YouTube megastar better known as Mr. Beast … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Una Brands, which acquires and consolidates third party sellers across e-commerce platforms in the Asia-Pacific region, launches with $40M in debt and equity — One of the biggest funding trends of the past year is companies that consolidate small e-commerce brands.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Schemes offering to buy workplace login credentials appear linked to Argyle, a startup backed by Bain Ventures; providing access might break hacking laws — Argyle says it provides access to employment and payroll history. Buying login details may fall afoul of U.S. hacking laws. — Joseph Cox
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Billboard says it will publish a ranking of the most popular songs in the US based on Twitter conversations; the chart will be updated daily — The ranking will be one of Billboard's first that doesn't measure how much people listen to music — Billboard, the king of music charts … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga to acquire Chartboost, a mobile programmatic ad service reaching 700M+ MAUs, for $250M in cash; Zynga says deal will help it grow as IDFA changes roll out — Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here! — Mobile game publisher Zynga has agreed to acquire mobile ad …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Finnish mobile games company Metacore raises $180M in a debt round from Tencent's Supercell to scale its first game Merge Mansion, which has 800K+ DAUs — Metacore, a Finnish mobile games company, seems to have an amazing ‘relationship’ with Supercell, another (quite successful) Finnish mobile games company.
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| Mallory Hackett / MobiHealthNews: |
Vida Health, a virtual care app for patients with chronic conditions, raises $110M Series D led by General Atlantic, Centene, and AXA Venture Partners — General Atlantic, Centene and AXA Venture Partners led the Series D round. — Vida Health, a virtual chronic condition care platform … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cymulate, which tests clients' networks by running simulated machine learning-based cyber attacks, raises $45M Series C led by One Peak Partners — With cybercrime on course to be a $6 trillion problem this year, organizations are throwing ever more resources at the issue to avoid being a target.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
YouTube says Shorts, its TikTok rival, will roll out to all US-based creators next week, after testing in beta in March — YouTube is vigorously pushing Shorts with the TikTok short-form video competitor within the main platform now available and rolling out to all US-based creators.Sponsor Posts
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