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Zoom says it deactivated accounts of US-based activists due to China's demands, won't allow such requests to impact users outside mainland China “going forward” — - Company shut down video meetings to remember Tiananmen Square — Zoom's in the middle of a free speech and censorship clash
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Twitter removed 32K+ accounts engaged in propaganda linked to Russia, China, and Turkey, describing the accounts as “state-linked information operations” — - Accounts spread ‘deceptive’ claims about Hong Kong politics — Russia-linked accounts supported Kremlin, attacked dissidents| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Twitter says it had shut down more than 170K accounts tied to the Chinese government spreading deceptive narratives favoring China around COVID-19, HK, more — (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it had shut down more than 170,000 accounts tied to the Chinese government.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK Competition and Markets Authority, the country's antitrust watchdog, launches an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Giphy — Facebook wants to be the go-to platform for all of your social needs, but a big move it made last month to take ownership in the world of GIFs …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Internet Archive to close its National Emergency Library, which offers free, unrestricted access to ebooks, on June 16, after lawsuit from four major publishers — Online library asks publishers to “call off their costly assault.” — The Internet Archive has ended its National Emergency Library programs …
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Facebook announces the results of its first Deepfake Detection Challenge, says the winning algorithm spotted deepfakes with an average accuracy of just 65.18% — But the company says deepfakes are not currently ‘a big issue’ — Facebook has announced the results of its first Deepfake Detection Challenge …
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| Lee Fang / The Intercept: |
Sources: Facebook internally showcased a feature for its Workplace chat product that allowed administrators to remove and block trending topics like “unionize” — During an internal presentation at Facebook on Wednesday, the company debuted features for Facebook Workplace …
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it's updating its advertising policies to prohibit demographic and zip code targeting for housing, employment, and credit ads — The update will roll out in the U.S. and Canada this year. — Google is updating its advertising policies around housing, employment and credit opportunities, the company announced Thursday.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
HeadLight, a Seattle-based developer of photo-based inspection software for infrastructure construction projects, raises $25M Series B — Construction technology startup HeadLight announced a $25 million investment round from Viking Global Investors to help scale its photo-based inspection software.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Sources: NY AG has interviewed NY Amazon warehouse workers as employee retaliation claims become a central focus of investigation into Amazon's labor practices — - The New York attorney general's office is in the process of collecting information from Amazon workers who say the company retaliated … | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook announces Apple's Racial Equity and Justice Initiative with a $100M commitment, led by VP of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson — Tim Cook has just announced a new major commitment from Apple to support the fight for racial equality and justice …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Jim Keller, SVP of Intel's Silicon Engineering Group, has resigned from the company due to personal reasons, will remain as a consultant for next six months — Intel has just published a news release on its website stating that Jim Keller has resigned from the company, effective immediately, due to personal reasons.
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Sources: Netflix is in talks with Network18, the media unit of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, to establish a multiyear content creation partnership — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. video streaming company Netflix is in talks with Viacom18, part of the Indian conglomerate Reliance … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony reveals new hardware design for its upcoming PlayStation 5, which ships in two versions, one with a 4K Blu-ray drive and a Digital Edition without — Sony's next-gen console is here — Sony is finally revealing what the PlayStation 5 looks like. After nearly an hour of PS5 game announcements …
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Tweets: @samhenrigold, @jeffgrubb, @jeffgrubb, @stammy, and @reckless
| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb settles a lawsuit against NYC, will hand over physical addresses of NYC listings plus host names, addresses, phone numbers, and more every quarter — - Move could cost Airbnb thousands of listings in the city — Longstanding dispute was seen as impediment to stock debut| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Snap says more than 170M+ people access AR features daily and updates its AR platform with voice search, geography-specific Local Lenses, and SnapML — Snapchat's augmented reality dreams might be starting to look a bit more realistic. — The company has been subtly improving …
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