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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users — Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race …
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Twitter has removed some bot accounts, sources say more than 10,000, that posed as Democrats and posted tweets discouraging people from voting in the midterms — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting …
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Tweets: @cnetnews, @bcappelbaum, @nickpacilio, and @peteskomoroch
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
How Facebook and Twitter fight online voter suppression for the midterms with algorithm changes and partnerships with organizations that report disinformation — Facebook and Twitter aren't just trying to drive people to the polls — they're racing to fight back bad actors who seek to deter their users from voting.| Google Walkout For Real Change: |
Google walkout organizers say 20,000+ participated and that Sundar Pichai will meet with his leadership team on Monday to review a plan to address their demands — For Immediate Release: — Google employees and contractors participate in global “walkout for real change”
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| Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Thasos, which leases trillions of anonymized GPS coordinates from ~1,000 smartphone apps and sells insights from the data to Wall Street traders — The phone in your pocket is dishing info on where you spend your time and, likely, money — When Tesla Inc. TSLA .62% Chief Executive Elon Musk …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at how deepfakes, with recent software advances that easily create AI-generated fake audio and video, could be misused to undermine elections — PLENTY OF PEOPLE are following the final days of the midterm election campaigns. Yale law researcher Rebecca Crootof has a special interest—a small wager.
Tweets: @nxthompson and @wired
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
In a wide-ranging interview, Elon Musk discusses his tweeting habits, Tesla's past year, its Navigate on Autopilot feature, full autonomous driving, and more — Musk talks about his “excruciating” 2018, fighting with journalists on Twitter, why Tesla won't build an electric scooter and much more.
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Tweets: @jack, @thesheetztweetz, @negarmortazavi, @binarybits, @ezraklein, @jeff_foust, @sarthakgh, @hein_the_sayer, and @ryanfelton
| BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter apologizes after “Kill all Jews” appeared as a trending topic in many New Yorkers' local trending sections following the vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue — On Friday morning, Twitter featured the trending topic “Kill all Jews” in its New York local trend feed.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: ByteDance's short video app TikTok's monthly US App Store installs in October were higher than those of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube — Beijing-based ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based Setter, whose platform lets homeowners chat with home maintenance experts and get a quote, raises $10M Series A co-led by Sequoia and NFX — You probably don't know how much it should cost to get your home's windows washed, yard landscaped, or countertops replaced. But Setter does.
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| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
US Department of Commerce to lift price freeze on .com domains from December 2020 after extending contract with Verisign to run the internet registry until 2024 — Verisign is the big winner as consumers face higher bills for .com domain names. — The U.S. Department of Commerce's National …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Spotify makes an early version of its Apple Watch app available to a limited number of users via Apple's TestFlight beta testing program — Spotify is officially coming to Apple Watch, as the streaming music service today delighted users with an early beta version of the watchOS app through TestFlight.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Profile of cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns who says he has spent $300M to build an experimental community based on blockchain in Nevada — A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.
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PR Newswire, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Bitsonline, socalTECH.com, YouTube, and ETHNews
Tweets: @nathanielpopper, @nzben, @lsukernik, @levie, @0xabad1dea, @excellion, @el_hdh, @maguirekevin, and @anondran
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
View, a startup that makes smart windows with internet-connected frames that can regulate the tinting of the glass, raises $1.1B from SoftBank's Vision Fund — Despite the recent assassination of a journalist by Saudi Arabian agents and an ensuing global controversy, Masayoshi Son …
Tweets: @business and @markmilian
| Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times: |
Blockchain-powered network Civil's token sale failed because people buy into blockchain to make money and don't necessarily want to use it to “fix” journalism — Hype around the technology has led to incomprehensible applications of it. — Civil Media Company was introduced earlier … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Freedom House moves the US down a spot in its global internet freedom rankings citing net neutrality repeal, surveillance law renewal, disinformation, and more — If you need a safe haven on the internet, where the pipes are open and the freedoms are plentiful — you might want to move to Estonia or Iceland.Sponsor Posts
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