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Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous — Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, About Facebook, Livemint, Associated Press, The Hill, CNET, Bloomberg, and Engadget
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| Michael Riley / Bloomberg: |
Internal docs show Facebook staff faulted the company for failing to thwart the proliferation of Groups, like Stop The Steal, that fomented January 6 violence — Employees and the company's own research highlight ways Facebook failed to police its platforms ahead of the siege on the Capitol
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CNN, The Guardian, Financial Times, NPR, Associated Press, About Facebook, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Axios, The Information, The Information, New York Post, New York Times, NBC News, and Variety
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
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| Washington Post: |
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Tweets: @nakashimae, @cwarzel, @amyklobuchar, @mollyjongfast, @jmichaelwaller, @magloughlina, @monteiro, @katestarbird, @tackettdc, @niemanlab, @alexstamos, @juliettekayyem, @ttp_updates, @davewiner, @jaxalemany, @rawstory, @wiczipedia, @moonalice, @clearing_fog, @bostonjoan, @eliotwb, @jeffhorwitz, @evilgalprods, @william_fitz, @juliacarriew, @ecmclaughlin, @drdenagrayson, @richismo77, @drdenagrayson, @drdenagrayson, @drdenagrayson, @joenbc, @drdenagrayson, @jesselehrich, @daveyalba, and @parismartineau. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reverses its decision to remove code editing feature Hot Reload in its upcoming .NET 6 SDK, after backlash from the open source community — .NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms — Microsoft is reversing a decision to remove a key feature …
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.NET Blog, The Verge, Dusted Codes, BetaNews, The Register, GitHub, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and Slashdot
Tweets: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @ardalis, @mpdreamz, @tomwarren, and @peterzaitsev
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
CISA warns of malware discovered in npm package UAParser.js, which has 6M-7M downloads weekly, that installs a password stealer and a crypto miner — A massively popular JavaScript library (npm package) was hacked today and modified with malicious code that downloaded and installed …
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GitHub, CISA, and GitHub. More:
npm, BleepingComputer, Hackaday, Market Research Telecast, BankInfoSecurity, HackRead, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Docs from 16 AGs' Google suit: Google sought help from Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft to stall federal efforts to strengthen an online privacy law for children — Unsealed court documents say the search giant sought help from Apple, Facebook and Microsoft to “find areas of alignment.”
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New York Times, The Register, US District Court, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, Protocol, Daily Mail, and New York Post
Tweets: @jason_kint, @fynnderella1, @adfichter, @dougsaunders, @atomicadman, @jason_kint, @marie_haynes, @snowden, @courtneyr, @khushitavasant, @theregister, @khushitavasant, @moonalice, @lukolejnik, @jason_kint, @profcarroll, @khushitavasant, @thezedwards, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @khushitavasant, @khushitavasant, @patrickmcgee_, @patrickmcgee_, @patrickmcgee_, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @leah_nylen, @leah_nylen, @thezedwards, @leah_nylen, @leah_nylen, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A group of US states say Google takes up to 42% of the money paid for online ads, in a newly unsealed court filing from their lawsuit against Google — Google takes up to 42% of the money paid for digital ads published online, according to a newly unsealed court filing by states that claim … | Lizzy Lawrence / Protocol: |
A look at productivity influencers who center their content around apps like Notion, Excel, and Asana, offering advice on how to stay organized — This is the creators' internet. The rest of us are just living in it. We're accustomed to the scores of comedy TikTokers …
Tweets: @protocol, @protocol, @augustbradley, and @meganmorrone
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A look at the bitter privacy debate in a Colorado neighborhood over the use of license plate scanners made by Flock, whose customer base has risen 4x since 2019 — A battle among homeowners in the Colorado mountains shows how a new generation of surveillance technology is reshaping American neighborhoods
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Slashdot. Tweets: @lizzadwoskin, @carnage4life, @aaschapiro, @adriandaub, @jimduncan, @loriamontgomery, @mediaverse, @jeffjarvis, and @hypervisible
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Tel Aviv and Palo Alto-based Metrolink.ai, which is developing a data management service, raises a $22M seed led by Grove Ventures — Israel- and Palo Alto, California-based Metrolink.ai, which is developing a platform for data management, today announced that it raised $22 million …
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Tweets: @groveventures, @niron, and @calcalistech
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Embrace, a mobile data intelligence startup, raises a $45M Series B led by NEA — Many companies collect data from all of their users, but they don't know what is good or bad data until it is collected and analyzed. Now in this increasingly mobile-first world, we use our phones for everything …
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PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and Los Angeles Business …
| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
PitchBook: the number of European VC deals with US investor participation rose from 359 deals totaling €2.7B in 2011 to 1,434 deals worth €50.8B so far in 2021 — - Veteran investor Alex Ferrara, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, which backed companies like LinkedIn and Pinterest … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates App Store Guidelines, including to let developers contact users about other payment methods as part of an earlier agreement with US developers — Apple today introduced a new set of App Store Guidelines which include three key changes. One of the changes is the result …
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Apple Developer, iMore, The Economic Times, AppleInsider, BetaNews, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, Thurrott, Livemint, Slashdot, MacDailyNews, CNET, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @drbarnard, @iansherr, and @appfairness
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Software Freedom Conservancy says TRUTH Social violates Mastodon's open source code licensing terms by not sharing its source code, gives it 30 days to comply — Truth Social ripped off open-source platform Mastodon — The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump's …
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The Register, Software Freedom Conservancy, USA Today, Gizmodo, Input, Engadget, Variety, and TIME
| Matt Murray / Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of work after lockdowns, unionization push by Google employees, changing perceptions of privacy, and more — The Alphabet and Google CEO discusses returning to work, unionization and privacy policies — These are challenging times for Alphabet Inc. …
Tweets: @bramk
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