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Facebook will now ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust; Zuckerberg says his “thinking has evolved” as data shows an increase in anti-Semitic violence — Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources …
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| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Study: Facebook likes, comments, and shares from outlets that routinely publish misinformation roughly tripled from Q3 2016 to Q3 2020 to 1.8B interactions — During the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms …
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| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
Facebook's ineffective content moderation efforts, unevenly enforced and handled by low-paid moderators, show it can't and doesn't have the will to fix itself — The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem?
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft, Symantec, ESET, and other tech companies orchestrated an attempt to takedown the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers — FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twilio confirms it is buying customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal, expected to close in Q4 2020 — Twilio today announced its biggest acquisition to date, spearheading a strong move into customer data management alongside its existing API-based tools …
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Twilio, Forbes, ZDNet, Marketing Land, SiliconANGLE, AdExchanger, Silicon Valley Business …, ZDNet, Light Reading, Associated Press, Axios, Crunchbase News, cloudpro.co.uk, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Tech News. Tweets: @jeffiel. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google's Nest unveils a thermostat with a simpler design, ditching the rotating dial, available to pre-order today for $130, a $40 discount on Nest Thermostat E — The new Nest Thermostat ditches the signature rotating dial — Google's Nest smart home division has a new smart thermostat available to order starting today.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts an AR app that works with QR codes on its shipping boxes to create “interactive, shareable” AR experiences such as projecting halloween pumpkins — Amazon has quietly launched a new augmented reality application that works with QR codes on the company's shipping boxes to create … | Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are pushing for a reform to CA tax law that would use property taxes to fund education, spending almost $11M on the effort — Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are making the biggest electoral bet of their careers to date. Courtesy of The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
A look at possible antitrust action against Big Tech following the release of reports from both Democrats and Republicans last week — Democrats aren't the only ones ready to rewrite the antitrust rules for internet platforms — Never in world history has one sector of the global economy risen … | Leah Nylen / Politico: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snapdocs, which is used by ~130,000 real estate professionals to manage the mortgage process online, raises $60M Series C led by YC Continuity — Snapdocs, which is used by some 130,000 real estate professionals to digitally manage the mortgage process and other paperwork and stages related … | Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare announces Cloudflare One, a comprehensive service for managing corporate networks, meant to replace a patchwork of WAN technologies — Loading... Today we're announcing Cloudflare One™. It is the culmination of engineering and technical development guided by conversations … | Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU is making a “hit list” of up to 20 large internet companies, likely to include Facebook and Apple, subject to tougher rules to curb market power — Brussels broadens search for extra powers to curb power of digital platforms — EU regulators are drawing up a …
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