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Facebook removes accounts, groups, and Pages tied to China that posted about US politics; the network was followed by fewer than 3,000 US accounts — The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer on buying more game companies, investing in Xbox Game Pass, and Microsoft's rejected TikTok bid — In an interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox head Phil Spencer discuss further acquisitions, how to keep making hits and what happened with TikTok.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nick Clegg denies Facebook could pull out of EU over data transfer ban, saying legal action is “to send a signal” that the ban could be a disaster for the EU — Facebook's head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's next 12.9-inch iPad Pro, coming at the end of 2020, will have Mini-LED displays — Following his report earlier this week indicating that Apple will be accelerating adoption of mini-LED displays in its iPad and Mac notebook lineups thanks to better than expected development …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
DOJ, in a rare legislative proposal, asks Congress to adopt a law weakening Section 230, in an effort to hold Facebook, Google, and others liable for content — At issue is Section 230, which gives Facebook, Twitter and other social media legal protection for items their users post to the companies' websites
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Leaked audio recordings and internal posts show Mark Zuckerberg's balancing act, as employees demand a harder line against Trump but users want the opposite — In 2020, Facebook would be roiled by a global pandemic, internal protests over racial injustice, a deeply polarizing election … | Kevin / kwokchain: |
An in-depth look at Mike Speiser's investment playbook at Sutter Hill Ventures; Speiser incubated Snowflake, of which he was a founding investor, as interim CEO — In Formula 1 racing, you can win a world championship as a driver with one team but then not even make the top 10 without that team's car and infrastructure.
Tweets: @modestproposal1, @pridesai, and @mgirdley
| Sarah Jeong / OneZero: |
Q&A with Casey Newton on leaving The Verge to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer, after many years as The Verge's Silicon Valley editor — Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and the magic of email
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest launches Story Pins, which combine multiple pages of images, videos, voiceover, and overlaid text, in beta, and other tools for creators — Pinterest is announcing its spin on the increasingly popular stories format today — Story Pins, which combine multiple pages of images, videos, voiceover and overlaid text.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How TikTok's UI, focused on just one auto-playing video at a time, generates clean user-driven data thanks to its “algorithm-friendly design” — In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work.| David French / Reuters: |
Robinhood raises $460M from a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and others as a extension to its $200M Series G, at a $11.7B valuation — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc, the financial technology startup credited with helping popularize trading among millennials, has increased …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Samsung is launching its ad-supported streaming service Samsung TV Plus, available on Samsung TVs since 2016, on some of its latest mobile phones — Samsung is doubling down on free, ad-supported streaming: After turning Samsung TV Plus into a massive success story on smart TVs …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Overview of the state of bundles in 2020 across Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — If the famous Jim Barksdale quote is to be believed — the one about there only being two ways to make money in business, bundling and unbundling …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will use AI-powered moderation to automatically age-restrict certain content — AI moderation measures will be used to automatically age-restrict certain content — YouTube is rolling out more artificial intelligence-powered technology to catch more videos …
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| Joseph Keller / iMore: |
The Swift Project announces its language tools are now available for Windows 10 — Swift is taking flight on Windows. — What you need to know — Swift is seeing its initial release on Windows. — Developers can now download Swift toolchain images for Windows 10.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Carrd, Linktree, and Bio.fm have capitalized on link sharing limits in apps like Instagram, creating entire businesses around simple link sharing websites — The link-in-bio side hustles are moving to full-time — If you want to learn more about an influencer, there's one place you always know to look: that link in bio.
Tweets: @codepo8, @ashleyrcarman, and @ajlkn
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Morgan Beller, one of the founders of Facebook's Libra digital currency, has left the company to become a partner at VC firm NFX — - One of the co-founders of Facebook's libra digital currency and Novi payments wallet has left the company before the release of either technology.
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Authorities from the US, UK, Germany, Europol, and others arrest 179 during Operation DisrupTor, targeting the sale of illicit goods on the dark web — ‘Operation Disruptor’ involved agencies from nine countries and the seizure of over $6.5m in cash and cryptocurrencies as criminals warned law enforcement will track them down.
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| Peter Slattery / OneZero : |
How Spotify's UX decisions have encouraged the growth of adjective-laden generic artist names, enabling a kind of SEO spam for music — The platform is filled with search-optimized spammers, and there's no end in sight — Welcome to The Cheater's Guide to Spotify, a series about the schemes …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, which will continue to be offered via the Azure-hosted API launched in June — Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from San Francisco-based AI startup OpenAI.
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| Financial Times: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter reach a deal with big advertisers for common standards on harmful content and to let external auditing of the system from H2 2021 — External audits and common standards satisfy companies who were boycotting social media — Facebook, YouTube and Twitter … | Freya Pratty / Sifted: |
Study: EU startups are delaying moving to the US, with just one-third moving before their Series A between 2015-2019, compared to two-thirds between 2008-2014 — The model for European startups to succeed in the US is shifting, new analysis by Index Ventures indicates.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions details how to create fake Facebook accounts to gather data, and how to avoid detection by Facebook — A leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions, a British company that offers social media monitoring services, included a step-by-step guide on how to create fake profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Tweets: @vice and @motherboard
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
ClassEDU, maker of a video-conferencing product for schools called Class for Zoom, raises $16M seed from Santi Subotovsky, a Zoom board member, and others — Zoom was never created to be a consumer product. Nonetheless, the video-conferencing company's accessibility made it the answer … Sponsor Posts
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