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New York Times: How a group of Dorsey's lieutenants overcame his reluctance to ban Trump's account when it became clear Trump was using his Twitter presence to incite violence -
Washington Post: Analytics firm Zignal Labs: online misinformation about election fraud dropped 73% in the week after several social media sites suspended Trump and key allies -
Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Twitter outlines its plans for Wednesday's Inauguration Day, including transitioning @POTUS and other handles to Biden and archiving several official accounts -
Nellie Bowles / New York Times: Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work -
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle: Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson calls out tech leaders for bailing on SF and being rude about it as they leave, says he is staying and working to make the city better -
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: More than 20 current and former CD Projekt staff say development of Cyberpunk 2077 was marred by unchecked ambition, poor planning, and technical shortcomings -
Nick Statt / The Verge: WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook -
BuzzFeed News: Facebook says it is temporarily banning ads for gun accessories and military gear through next week's inauguration “out of an abundance of caution” -
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Deliveroo says it has raised $180M in new funding from existing investors led by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management at a $7B+ valuation -
Chloe Lo / Bloomberg: Yidu Tech, which offers AI software to the health care industry, saw its shares jump 148% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday after raising ~$531M in its IPO -
Bloomberg: Miami PD says it is using facial recognition tech from Clearview AI to identify Capitol rioters, raising concerns among civil liberty and privacy advocates -
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Financial Times: Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested $10.3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO -
Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: A look at the raging debate inside Wikipedia, where neutrality is prized above all, on what to call the attack on the Capitol -
Tom Roston / OneZero : On its 20th anniversary, Wikipedians recount how it began and how it grew to become the definitive digital encyclopedia and the default resource for everything