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Sources: Trump is planning to sign an executive order Thursday that could threaten punishment for Facebook, Google, and Twitter over content moderation — The president is expected to sign the order on Thursday — President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order Thursday that could roll …
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Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: private companies, especially platform companies, shouldn't be the arbiters of truth — Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: Private companies shouldn't be the arbiter of truth — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called out Twitter …
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
Trump joins his campaign and Fox News in targeting Twitter employee Yoel Roth, calling him a “hater” in a tweet, after Dorsey asked to keep employees out of it — “It's unfortunate to see individual employees targeted for company decisions — Right-wing media and Trump supporters …
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Twitter adds fact-checking labels to hundreds of tweets, even as the Trump administration prepares an EO aiming to curtail Section 230 protections — Twitter continued fact-checking posts even as President Trump threatened to limit protections for social media companies.
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Inside Twitter's decision to fact-check Trump's tweets, while expecting that Trump would respond and the decision could spark a reassessment of Section 230 — ‘We knew from a comms perspective that all hell would break loose,’ says Twitter's vice president of global communications
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Microsoft says the Xbox Series X will support “thousands” of Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One games at launch, doubling the fps in some cases — Thousands of games will be supported on the next-gen Xbox — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox will launch with support for “thousand of games” …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces Google Page Experience, an algorithm ranking pages based on user experience, with factors like page speed and HTTPS, arriving in 2021 or later — This new ranking factor won't be live until 2021, at the earliest. Here is what you need to know.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Chapters, letting creators add timestamps to their videos, for all users across iOS, Android, and desktop — If you've ever found yourself scrubbing your way through a long YouTube video to get to the “good” part, you'll appreciate the new feature YouTube is launching today: Video Chapters.
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Facebook says it will now verify identities of users behind profiles that have a “pattern of inauthentic behavior” and whose posts “rapidly go viral” in the US — Facebook has been verifying the identities of Page managers for a while in its quest to stamp out misinformation …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu is testing Watch Party, a social feature that lets viewers watch titles together virtually and chat in groups of up to eight people — With millions of Americans still under quarantine orders, Hulu is introducing a way for subscribers to sit together on the couch — virtually — to stream TV shows and movies at the same time.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it plans to offer permanent jobs to about 125,000 US warehouse workers, representing 70% of those it hired temporarily to meet pandemic demand — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to offer permanent jobs to about 70% of the U.S. workforce it has hired temporarily …
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Nuro's driverless delivery robots will deliver medication from a CVS pharmacy in Houston to its customers at no extra charge, in a pilot starting in June — This represents a shift in Nuro's typical operations — Nuro, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by two ex-Google engineers …
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OpenSSH says it will deprecate SHA-1 logins over security concerns, after researchers demonstrated an attack that cost under $50,000 in January 2020 — Breaking a SHA-1-generated SSH authentication key now costs roughly $50,000, putting high-profile remote servers at risk of attacks.
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Tencent raises $6B in a bond sale in Asia, the largest dollar-denominated bond sale by a Chinese company this year — Companies hungry for dollar funds to see themselves through coronavirus crisis — Tencent has raised $6bn in the latest big-ticket dollar bond sale in Asia …
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