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After Facebook bans seven extremists, Trump, in a series of tweets, complains about the ban, retweeting extremists' tweets, and issuing vague threats — New York (CNN)Facebook barred seven users from its services earlier this week, citing its policies against “dangerous individuals and organizations.”
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Facebook could have limited the reach of Alex Jones and other “dangerous” figures without outright bans, which erode the US' strong free speech traditions — Jack Shafer is Politico's senior media writer. — Free speech took a whacking Thursday as Facebook cited its policies against … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: FTC commissioners remain divided along the party lines on whether to hold Mark Zuckerberg personally liable for Facebook's future privacy violations — The F.T.C. chairman seems to have the votes to approve a settlement. One of the biggest issues has been whether to hold Mark Zuckerberg liable for future violations.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Some Git source code repositories, including at least 392 from GitHub, have been wiped and replaced with a ransom demand in a possible coordinated attack — Hacker wipes Git repos and asks for Bitcoin. Gives victims 10 days and threatens to release the code.
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| Celia Wan / The Block: |
Bitfinex is trying to raise $1B via initial exchange offering of LEO tokens to provide liquidity as it seeks access to $850M it says were frozen by governments — Bitfinex will issue an initial exchange offering (IEO) that aims to raise $1 billion, according to an excerpt …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
A look at Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as Uber prepares to go public; source: CEO decided Travis Kalanick isn't welcome on the NYSE balcony for next week's IPO — The C.E.O. wants to prove that the start-up has evolved past a raucous, and profligate, tech-bro culture. But Uber's past is simply not that far gone.
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| Matthew Yglesias / Vox: |
An overview of the debate over breaking up big tech and why antitrust might not be the best concept to address most issues people have with big tech companies — There's a pervasive feeling that the tech giants are too powerful ... but they're also really good for consumers.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T hit with class action lawsuits for selling customer location data — The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile sold phone location data that ended up with bounty hunters, and The New York Times covered an instance of Verizon selling data.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Virginia-based DivvyCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure automation software, raises $19M, says its client base doubled in the past year to 20+ companies — DivvyCloud, an Arlington, Virginia-based company developing a cloud infrastructure automation platform, today announced … | Mike Dudas / The Block: |
Report: Facebook seeks ~$1B from financial firms and e-commerce sites to back its stablecoin as it readies its payments network and rewards system for users — - Facebook is planning to launch a full payments network (rather than just remittances) and in discussions with payment networks Visa …
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| Laura Bliss / CityLab: |
Innisfil, Ontario, which in 2017 decided to subsidize Uber rides in lieu of a public bus system, has been forced to raise fares and cap rides as adoption grows — Innisfil, Ontario, decided to partially subsidize ride-hailing trips rather than pay for a public bus system.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Coinbase says CTO Balaji Srinivasan is leaving; source: Srinivasan was not given enough freedom and had differing visions for the future product roadmap — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is parting ways with its CTO Balaji Srinivasan, who joined the firm as part of one of its largest acquisitions, The Block has learned.
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