Signal says it has added support for privacy-focused cryptocurrency MobileCoin to let users send and receive money, starting in the UK on iOS and Android
Testing your first payment — Sending your first payment Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security : Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support Stephen Diehl : Et tu, Signal? Liam Tung / ZDNet : Signal messaging...
Wikipedia to protect its main 2020 election page with expanded measures, like stopping new editors from making edits, that it has used to stop COVID-19 misinfo
The encyclopedia is determined to emerge from the insanity of a pandemic and a polarizing election with its information and reputation intact. Tweets: @krmaher , @raju , @backchnnl , @mr_dudders , @ar...
The software industry makes amazing software tools for itself, while doctors, academics, and scientists are stuck using bad software
The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening. Tweets: @terronk , @nxthompson , and @backc...
Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project would force social media companies to compensate users, but the plan underestimates difficulty of valuing data
Will Rinehart / Wired : Tweets: @willrinehart , @jrhuddles , @adalovelaceinst , @backchnnl , @jason_kint , and @bill_tribble Tweets: Will Rinehart / @willrinehart : This morning I have an op-ed in @W...
The pandemic presents the biggest language translation challenge for COVID-19 info, as Wikipedia supports 309 languages, Google Translate 109, and Bing 71
Services like Google Translate only support 100 languages, give or take. What about the thousands of other languages—spoken by people just as vulnerable to this crisis? Tweets: @appenglobal , @backch...
How an increasing number of Silicon Valley employees are trying to organize political resistance against Trump
Lauren Smiley / Backchannel : Tweets: @backchnnl and @backchnnl Tweets: Backchannel / @backchnnl : The same basic tools of tech apply to political resistance: set an incremental goal, move fast, iter...
Facebook Live is increasingly being used by conservative media personalities instead of talk radio, where some video broadcasts get millions of viewers
How the rough-around-the-edges live-streaming tool became the perfect incubator for conservative news in the Trump age. Tweets: @backchnnl , @mediatwit , @paconner , @fittsofalexis , @stevenlevy , and...
Some leaders consider whether Donald Trump's victory showed that Silicon Valley has failed to recognize the social and economic anxieties of many voters
as Amazon stock tanks Brett Molina / USA Today : Bezos congratulates Trump on election victory Andrew Zaleski / Backchannel : How Bots, Twitter, and Hackers Pushed Trump to the Finish Line Digital Eth...
Facebook Heavily Promotes Live Video But Struggles To Deal With Its Visceral Aftermath
for better or for worse Jim Edwards / Business Insider : Facebook *is* biasing the news — but not in the way you think Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post : Is Facebook ready for live video's important r...
Profile of 50onRed, a company that bills itself as a digital advertising firm, but makes money from ad injections
Juliana Reyes / Backchannel : Tweets: @chronotope , @longform , @stevenlevy and @dangillmor . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Aram Zucker-Scharff / @chronotope : Haha, holy s**t this longform story about...