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White nationalist outlets including VDare and Red Ice TV still operate on Facebook despite its ban on white nationalism; Facebook says it is investigating — Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook's promised ban| Chris Stokel-Walker / Increment: |
A look at the team behind VLC, which started as a student-run project in 1996 that is now part of a nonprofit with a for-profit consultancy managed by ~10 staff — How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay. — Teams
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| Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / ICIJ: |
Leaked Chinese government documents reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang using mass surveillance and predictive policing — A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps … | Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
A former Facebook employee who was embedded with the 2016 Trump campaign details how he leveraged Facebook's ad-targeting tools and products to help them win — James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office — After the 2016 presidential election … | Nick Heath / TechRepublic: |
Interview with Stephen Wolfram about the future of Wolfram|Alpha, how programming needs to evolve, Wolfram Language as a “computational language”, and more — The brains behind Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language talks about how programming languages need to develop.
Tweets: @techrepublic and @techrepublic
| Ava Kofman / ProPublica: |
ProPublica claims to have found 57 unlabeled state-sponsored channels on YouTube; after presented with a list, YouTube labeled only 35 of them as such — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
Tweets: @propublica and @moonalice
| Nathaniel Rich / Vanity Fair: |
Inside the collapse of Quadriga crypto exchange, as law enforcement, accountants, and Reddit sleuths try to figure out if it was a legit operation or a scam — When Canadian blockchain whiz Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly last year, hundreds of millions of dollars in investor funds vanished into the crypto ether.
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Source: Airbnb lost about $100M in Q2 2019, compared to the profit of $10M it made a year ago — Airbnb lost about $100 million before interest and taxes in the second quarter this year, a big swing from the profit of $10 million it made in the year-earlier period, according to financial information viewed by The Information.
Tweets: @coryweinberg, @modestproposal1, @edbott, and @eliotwb
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources: authorities have arrested an alleged member of The Chuckling Squad, the group that hacked Jack Dorsey's Twitter account in August — The alleged member was arrested around two weeks ago, another member of the hacking group told Motherboard. - Authorities have arrested an individual … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns a lower-court order that required the suspect in a child-porn case to turn over the password to his computer — Prosecutors say forced disclosure permitted by “foregone conclusion.” Justices disagree. — The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution bars people … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A look at the Legal Aid Society of New York City's efforts to close the tech gap between public defenders and law enforcement with respect to digital forensics — Public defenders lack access to gadgets and software that could keep their clients out of jail. — On April 27, a woman in eastern Brooklyn called the police.
Tweets: @kashhill, @nytimesbusiness, @byrontau, @amelia_acker, @sushantsin, @geomblog, @nytimes, and @tmluongo
| Samanth Subramanian / The Guardian: |
As we shop more online and think less about how our purchases reach our homes, a look at how our home delivery habit is reshaping the physical world — The great trick of online retail has been to get us to shop more and think less about how our purchases reach our homes. By Samanth Subramanian
Tweets: @frankpasquale, @kinsale42, @sajithpai, and @mishdalton
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