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Internal docs show Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug cartels using its platform for recruitment in developing countries — Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents — - Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of criticism after comparing the value of social networks to society to that of cars.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Initial benchmarks show iPhone 13's A15 chip offers a roughly 15% improvement for GPU performance and 10%-18% improvement for CPU performance over A14 — Earlier today, we reported on a Geekbench Metal result for the iPhone 13 Pro showing an approximately 55% graphics performance improvement compared to the iPhone 12 Pro.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
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| Haroon Siddique / The Guardian: |
Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum who helped popularize the home computer, dies at age 81 — Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness — Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental …
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Internal report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US Facebook users per month before the 2020 election; 75% of the users didn't follow any of the Pages — In the run up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian …
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| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
How law enforcement's ability to track people via commercially available data blurs the line between investigative due diligence and warrantless surveillance — Agencies' growing use of purchased data without warrants raises new legal questions — In January 2020, a 14-year-old girl …
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| Reuters: |
Facebook says it will use the same tactics that it uses to remove bot networks to target real-user accounts engaging in tactics like mass reporting — Facebook (FB.O) is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities …
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| Financial Times: |
China is cracking down on pessimistic financial blogs and social media accounts, as well as fraudulent ones; analysts worry independent voices will be silenced — China has launched a crackdown on financial blogs and social media, a move that risks exacerbating the difficulty …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Nate Chastain, OpenSea's head of product accused this week of a form of NFT insider trading, appears to no longer be working for the company — He's accused of buying NFTs before they appeared on the trading platform's homepage — OpenSea head of product Nate Chastain …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Alphabet's Project Taara, which uses light beams to deliver internet, says it transmitted nearly 700TB of data across the Congo River over 20 days — The 20Gbps Free Space Optical Communications tech for Project Taara was originally part of Project Loon — In January, Google's parent company …
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| Bloomberg: |
Digital identity management firm ForgeRock closed up 46% in its NYSE debut for a market cap of ~$2.9B, after raising roughly $275M in its IPO — - Tech consulting, running shoes deliver 45% returns in listings — ForgeRock CEO sees demand increasing further across sectors| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Avalanche Foundation, whose AVAX token is up 65% over the past week, raises $230M led by Polychain and Three Arrows Capital — - Cryptocurrency AVAX jumps 65% in past week to top 20 rankings — Polychain, Three Arrows Capital led the investment purchase
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Tyk, which offers open source tools for businesses to manage APIs, raises $35M led by Scottish Equity Partners — APIs are the grease turning the gears and wheels for many organizations' IT systems today, but as APIs grow in number and use, tracking how they work (or don't work) …
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Glean, an enterprise search engine startup cofounded by Google and Facebook veterans, emerges from stealth with $55M in funding across two rounds — When Arvind Jain left his cushy tech job to cofound cloud data management company Rubrik, he ran into a familiar problem: search.
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| Politico: |
DHS: American extremists used TikTok in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riots to recruit new members and share “tactical guidance” for terrorist and criminal activity — Extremists foreign and domestic have used the video platform, DHS says. The app says it has “absolutely no place” for violence and hate.| Aaron Mak / Slate: |
Inside the r/aznidentity subreddit, an unofficial hub of “Men's Rights Asians” subculture, which has gained notoriety by harassing Asian women — They became notorious for trying to harass Asian women off the internet. The racial trauma of the past year has only emboldened them.| Michaella Huck / dot.LA: |
Omaze, a charity fundraising platform which offers celebrity meet-and-greets and other experiences, raises $85M Series C led by Moore Strategic Venture — Charity fundraising platform Omaze, which offers celebrity meet-and-greets and other fundraising experiences, landed its most high profile client … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, its third fundraising round in 2021 — Whatnot, a live streaming shopping platform for collectors to buy and sell things like rare Pokémon cards and Funko Pops … Sponsor Posts
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