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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: several Facebook execs voiced concerns about company's role in influencing elections; in all-hands meeting, Zuckerberg maintained the impact was small — SAN FRANCISCO — Late on Tuesday night, as it became clear that Donald J. Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election …
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See also Mediagazer| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook's role in the election, claims over 99% of what people see on Facebook is authentic — I want to share some thoughts on Facebook and the election. — Our goal is to give every person a voice. We believe deeply in people.
Tweets: @gaberivera, @swiftonsecurity, @tziegmann, @yoda and @mikeisaac
| Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg need to recognize the dangers of disseminating a flood of fake news, or public perception of the platform will continue to erode — Mark Zuckerberg hosts a Q&A at Facebook headquarters on December 11, 2014. Photo via Facebook Newsroom
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See also Mediagazer| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Peter Thiel will join Trump's transition team; sources say he will help vet presidential appointments and advise on which campaign promises will become policies — Thiel to vet appointees, prioritize policies, sources say — Eliminating waste, decreasing debt likely to top list
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See also Mediagazer| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook mistakenly showed memorial banners on profile pages implying users were dead, apologized for a “terrible error” — RIP — Facebook is capping one of the longest weeks in American history by telling everyone that they are dead. Log on to your profile and there's …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T to begin throttling mobile streaming video to 480p resolution in early 2017, but customers can opt out — Cellular customers can opt out of “Stream Saver,” which limits video to 480p. — AT&T today said it will begin limiting the quality of mobile video for cellular data customers in early 2017.
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Facebook says it will no longer allow advertisers to use its ethnic affinity marketing in housing, employment, and credit ads — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it will no longer allow advertisers to exclude specific racial and ethnic groups when placing ads related to housing, credit or employment.
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| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
Trump-supporting founder of Gab.ai, a social network popular with the alt-right, was kicked out of Y Combinator for violating its harassment policy — Milo Yiannopoulos and Gab.ai CEO Andrew Torba. — On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai …
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| New York Times: |
The US election underscores the flaws of an overreliance on large-scale data analysis, which can have unintended consequences, as it has for some tech companies — It was a rough night for number crunchers. And for the faith that people in every field — business, politics, sports and academia …
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See also Mediagazer| Tim Cushing / Techdirt: |
IMDb sues State of California over new law requiring certain paid entertainment sites to remove actors' age upon request, citing their First Amendment right — As was expected, IMDb is suing the state of California over its new “ageism” law. The law has its genesis in actress Junie Hoang's lawsuit …
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| Ethan Baron / Mercury News: |
Former Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain indicted on felony fraud charges following HP's disastrous $11B acquisition of Autonomy — Hewlett Packard complained bitterly that it had been deceived in its disastrous $11 billion acquisition of enterprise software firm Autonomy in 2011.
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| Saba Hamedy / Mashable: |
Hands-on with Snap's Spectacles: light-weight, pairing with phone is easy, Snapping with glasses and transfers to phone work as promised, video quality is good — Getting my hands on a pair of Snapchat Spectacles felt like getting a golden ticket. — Only instead of Willy Wonka greeting me at the …
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