How Parallel Wireless, a New Hampshire-based Open RAN vendor, is leading the charge to turn African mobile operators away from China's Huawei and ZTE
Abubakar Idris / Rest of World : Tweets: @yinkawrites , @nicdawes , @yinkawrites , and @restofworld Tweets: Yinka Adegoke / @yinkawrites : The race to build Africa's 5G networks is entangled in a U.S...
Unlike Alibaba, Tencent has so far avoided an antitrust crackdown in China, likely due to it investing in upstarts instead of driving them out of business
but not, at least for now, Tencent. https://www.nytimes.com/... @chinausfocus : “Tencent's popularity may help it avoid trouble with Beijing. But its vast power could still squelch innovation in the w...
Citizen Browser project's Split Screen tool shows Facebook's different News Feeds for Trump and Biden voters, based on data from 2,500+ users across the US
a tool that lets you see other people's feeds, based on our national panel of Facebook users. Brought to you by @suryamattu and @sammorrisdesign: https://themarkup.org/... Dan Froomkin / @froomkin : T...
Twitter and Facebook have done little to stop the spread of anti-Muslim messages from Indian politicians, amplifying incendiary voices in pursuit of profit
Alaphia Zoyab / Rest of World : Tweets: @anjali28 , @nicdawes , @restofworld , @frankpasquale , @akhildeo94 , @anupkaphle , and @rasmus_kleis Tweets: Anjali Ramachandran / @anjali28 : FB/TW won't do ...
Study: YouTube's recent efforts to fight misinfo by cutting recommendations to fringe channels worked but made Fox News the most recommended for election videos
and boosted Fox News at the same time, new research has found Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : Oopsie! Facebook's Instagram is telling users the election is tomorrow Axios : Facebook to rely on election ...
NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments
Sara Fischer / Axios : Tweets: @donie , @antoniogm , @zackkanter , @antoniogm , @pilhofer , @freedomofpress , @tealtan , @_ram_ , @jimpethokoukis , @auren , @girlsreallyrule , @nicdawes , @davidubert...
Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets
but it can be fixed Stephen Warwick / iMore : Today on Zoom: ‘Not suited for secrets’, encryption issues and more Mercury News : Zoombombing: FBI warns video calls are getting hijacked Tweets: Glenn F...
Civil rights groups concerned as FOIA request shows cities' law enforcement adopted Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech without prior public discourse
It's Selling Facial Recognition To U.S. Cops Tristan Greene / The Next Web : Amazon's facial recognition is now aiding US law enforcement Nathan Yau / FlowingData : Amazon Rekognition for government s...