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Facebook will verify identities and locations of advertisers posting political and issues ads and will also verify identities of admins of large Pages — We believe that when you visit a Page or see an ad on Facebook it should be clear who it's coming from.
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| Carl Meyer / National Observer: |
Facebook says it has suspended Canadian data firm AggregateIQ over alleged involvement with SCL and the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal — Facebook says it has suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ from its platform, after reports emerged alleging its involvement …
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Nasdaq halts trading of Longfin, which soared 2400% after buying a blockchain firm in Dec, as SEC freezes $27M in unauthorized stock sales by CEO and others — - Longfin, a 1-year-old fintech company, is under fire following SEC allegations that its CEO and his associates sold $27 million in restricted company stock.
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Tweets: @sec_news and @fortworth_sec
| Recode: |
Interview with Tim Cook covering US tax reform, the changing job landscape, diversity, DACA, why everyone should learn to code, privacy as a right, free speech — Education, iPhones, privacy and Facebook were all big topics of discussion. — Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes …
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Tweets: @karaswisher, @jason_kint, @recode, @recode, @karaswisher, @recode, @karaswisher, @recode, @karaswisher, @susan_hennessey, and @karaswisher
| Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed: |
US seizes classifieds site Backpage.com and related domains, raids founder's home, files 93 counts including money laundering and facilitating prostitution — Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website, went offline Friday after being seized and disabled by the federal government.
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Tweets: @radleybalko, @zackwhittaker, @jackposobiec, @njnp_dc, @eladarling, @gossithedog, and @melissagira
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Twitter delays API change that may disable push notifications and auto-refreshing timelines on third-party clients like Tweetbot, promises 90 days change notice — The people behind third-party Twitter clients Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talon, and Tweetings are warning users that their apps …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Skype unveils Content Creators mode, in preview on Windows 10 and Mac now, to record calls via NDI-compatible multi-user streaming software, out this summer — Here's a little trade secret: podcasters and radio show hosts use Skype a lot. It's helpful for adding remote guests with minimal fuss.
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Skype Blogs, SlashGear, International Business Times, TechCrunch, Windows Central, iMore, Neowin, MSPoweruser, On MSFT, and The Verge
Tweets: @digiphile and @alexpettitt
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Source: YouTube releasing new version of YouTube Kids within coming weeks with option to turn off algorithmic video suggestions and only show curated channels — YouTube is planning to release a new version of its YouTube Kids app that will do away with algorithmically suggested videos …
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Android Police, Gizmodo, The Verge, MSPoweruser, Fortune, 9to5Google, Tech Times, SlashGear, Mashable, and Business Insider
| Rachel Premack / The Verge: |
How South Korea's 20- and 30-year-olds, according to some researchers, fueled the late 2017 cryptocurrency boom, and how they are reacting to the current bust — For months, Seoul resident Ye-won Oh monitored cryptocurrency markets voraciously, refreshing her phone practically every minute of every day.| BuzzFeed: |
The Sri Lankan government and civil society groups say that Facebook has failed for years to monitor and remove accounts inciting ethnic violence in Sri Lanka — Extremists in Sri Lanka used Facebook to organize deadly violence against Muslims. Facebook is accused of not doing enough to prevent it.
Tweets: @buzzfeedben, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it will be adding support for withdrawing some Bitcoin forks across all of its properties, including GDAX, in the coming months — Cryptocurrency startup Coinbase said Thursday that, in the coming months, it will let customers withdraw funds resulting from forks of the bitcoin network.
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The Coinbase Blog, CoinSpeaker, Bitsonline, and finder US
| Mike Ananny / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Report on Facebook's fact-checking partnerships examines the struggles of tech companies teaming up with news orgs, details distrust and lack of transparency — Facebook and five US news and fact-checking organizations—ABC News, the Associated Press, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and Snopes …
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