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Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines — Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO's ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site …
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Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election — The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.
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Sources: Biden administration is preparing many actions to disrupt ransomware payments, including sanctions on some crypto wallets and exchanges next week — Biden administration hopes to disrupt digital finance infrastructure that facilitates ransomware cyberattacks, a threat traced to Russia
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Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages — In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian …
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Google to bring an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven't been used in months, to phones running Android 6 and above — Resetting an app's permissions if it hasn't been used in a while — Android 11's auto-resetting permissions … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Cameo launches Cameo Calls, a native experience in the app for fans to video chat with influencers and celebrities for up to 15 minutes — If you really want to video chat tonight with William Hung of retro American Idol fame... got twenty bucks to spare? Yesterday, Cameo launched …
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Telegram has exploded as an alternative to the dark web where criminals buy, sell, and share stolen data and hacking tools — New research shows growing network of hackers sharing data leaks on encrypted messaging app — Telegram has exploded as a hub for cybercriminals looking to buy …
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Elon Musk says Tesla will use a week of personal driving data to determine whether owners who paid for “Full Self-Driving” can access its latest beta version — Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will use personal driving data to determine whether owners who have paid for its controversial … | Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella sues to stop co-founder Dash from selling the copyright to Jay-Z's debut album as an NFT, saying he has no legal right to do so — - Rapper battles co-founder Dash over NFT rights to debut album — Lawsuits proliferate as non-fungible token market takes off| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Sources: Google plans to add free, ad-supported streaming TV channels to Google TV and has held talks with media companies that provide the channels — Google is looking to make its Chromecast streaming device more appealing to cord cutters. The company has plans to add free TV channels to Google TV … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
GitLab files for a US IPO and says its revenue in the latest quarter grew 69% to $58.1M, while net losses grew to $40.2M from $9.4M a year ago — - GitLab, which was valued at $6 billion in a secondary share sale late last year, filed its IPO prospectus on Friday.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents — - Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of criticism after comparing the value of social networks to society to that of cars.
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