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In a rare public protest at Facebook, dozens of employees stage a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's decision to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand — While Twitter started labeling some of the president's inflammatory posts, Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company should leave them alone.
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
As some Facebook employees publicly express anger, Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is committing $10M to groups working on racial injustice — - At least six Facebook employees have condemned CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to leave up President Trump's post.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
A look at recent statements by tech companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce, regarding racism in America after George Floyd's death — Comments Share 70 Tweet Share Reddit Email — Seattle tech giants Amazon and Microsoft issued statements this weekend in response …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony postpones a PlayStation 5 event scheduled for June 4 “to allow more important voices to be heard”, following similar moves by EA and Google amid protests — Sony's decision follows similar moves by EA and Google — Sony is postponing its PlayStation 5 event that was scheduled for June 4th due to ongoing protests.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook, in a memo to staff addressing racism in US, says Apple will give to non-profits like Equal Justice Initiative, match staff donations 2-to-1 in June — - Tim Cook writes letter to employees after George Floyd killing — Apple donating to equal justice, human rights groups, CEO says| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will donate $1M to the Center for Policing Equity, a nonprofit think tank that works with police departments to change discriminatory practices — The nonprofit works with police departments to address discriminatory behavior — YouTube says it will donate $1 million …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google pushes an update for its Pixel line, with improved Adaptive Battery, Google Assistant integration with Recorder, a new bedtime tab in the clock app, more — Google today announced the latest “feature drop” for its Pixel line of Android phones. Adaptive Battery now predicts …
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Google adds a suite of Bedtime tools to Android, building on its Wind Down feature, to turn on Do Not Disturb and enable grayscale effect, for Pixels first — At Google's 2018 I/O developer conference, the company debuted a new suite of “digital well-being” aimed at helping Android users better manage their screen time.
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| Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: |
Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights — Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online.
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| Bloomberg: |
Global Disinformation Index report examining 49 sites with COVID-19 disinformation says Google placed ads on 84% of them — One ad for telecom company O2 appeared on an article linking virus to 5G networks — Google has taken aggressive action to scrub coronavirus conspiracies …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 13.5.1, patching the vulnerability used by Unc0ver's jailbreak tool — Apple is releasing iOS 13.5.1 to the public today following last month's release of iOS 13.5. Apple says that today's update to iOS 13.5.1 provides important security updates.
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| Michael Pelly / Australian Financial Review: |
Australian appeals court rules that media companies can be held responsible for defamatory comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages — Australia's leading media outlets are considering an appeal to the High Court after a ruling that publishers can be sued for comments on their Facebook pages.| Bloomberg: |
Zynga says it will buy Turkish mobile game developer Peak for $1.8B, its biggest acquisition yet; the deal is $900M in cash and $900M in Zynga stock — - Turkish company known for its Toy Blast and Toon Blast Games — Deal will boost Zynga's margins, revenue and users: CEO
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