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November 16, 2018, 2:25 AM

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Sheryl Sandberg:
Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference is untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers  —  I want to address some of the claims that have been made in the last 24 hours.  —  On a number of issues - including spotting …
Facebook:
Facebook responds to the NYT exposé, lists “number of inaccuracies” in the story, and denies it knew about Russian activity as early as spring of 2016  —  Yesterday The New York Times published an article about the past two years at Facebook.  There are a number of inaccuracies in the story, including:
Alistair Barr / Bloomberg:
Facebook's board says it pushed Zuckerberg and Sandberg to respond to Russian interference faster and calls NYT report “grossly unfair”  —  Facebook Inc.'s board defended how Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg have handled mounting problems faced …
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Facebook to demote borderline content in News Feed by default, publish minutes of policy meetings, and let users appeal content decisions to an independent body  —  My focus in 2018 has been addressing the most important issues facing Facebook.  As the year wraps up, I'm writing a series …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Facebook's second content moderation report: from April to September, 1.5B fake accounts were closed and 23.3M instances of violent content were removed  —  Facebook's latest transparency report shows a big jump in spam and violent content takedowns, some advances in proactively identifying hate speech …
Brian Crecente / Variety:
Sony says it will not attend next year's E3, the annual video game trade show, the first time in E3's 24-year history that Sony will not be there  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment, currently riding high on record sales of its PlayStation 4 gaming console, won't be hosting its annual press conference …
Mike Minotti / VentureBeat:
Sony says it has sold 86.1M units of PlayStation 4 since the console debuted 5 years ago, 777.9M copies of software were sold on the platform  —  Sony revealed today that the PlayStation 4 has sold over 86.1 million systems.  The info came in a blog post celebrating the console's fifth anniversary.
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
FCC gives SpaceX permission to deploy over 7,000 Starlink internet satellites, as part of a full network of 12,000  —  Federal regulators are allowing entrepreneur Elon Musk to use an expanded range of wireless airwaves for his plan to deliver cheap, high-speed Internet access — from space.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Instagram adds new shopping features: redesigned business profiles, shop items from video posts, and save items to a shopping collection  —  Instagram is continuing to build out its shopping features today with the announcement of three new product updates.
Kyodo News+:
Japan's new cybersecurity strategy chief, in charge of anti-hacking preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, says he has never used a computer in his life  —  The Japanese government's cybersecurity strategy chief has drawn criticism after admitting he has not once used a computer …

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