Google says it is working with the US government to develop a nationwide COVID-19 website on symptoms, risks, and testing info, in addition to other measures
but Not Like Trump Said New York Times : Trump Oversold a Google Site to Fight Coronavirus Sean Collins / Vox : Despite his experts' grave warnings, Trump wants everyone to just “relax” Jon Fingas / E...
Facebook shares proposed bylaws for its oversight board, which some have called a content moderation “supreme court”, that leave Facebook firmly in control
essentially a “Supreme Court” of content decisions. What we kind of already knew, but what the bylaws confirmed, is this group will NOT make decisions quickly. It could take months. https://www.bloomb...
[Thread] Twitter will stop accepting all political and issue ads on its platform globally starting on November 22
but not the sense that will get them banned. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @jack : Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-...
Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News
Subscribe — Top of the Morning — Hi Peter. Julie Bort / Business Insider : The cofounder of Palantir just called Google ‘an unpatriotic company.’ … Chris White / The Daily Caller : Facebook's Form...
Facebook pulled ads from Sen. Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants, citing policy violations, but is now restoring them
Big Tech has way too much power to silence Free Speech. They shouldn't be censoring Warren, or anybody else. A serious threat to our democracy. http://twitter.com/... Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Facebook con...
A senior Facebook source says the company has no plans to enter China, after Zuckerberg says Facebook won't build data centers in countries that violate privacy
Since Patched—Let Hackers See Who Facebook Messenger Users Were Chatting With, Researcher Says Alex Hern / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg's privacy blogpost: what he did and didn't say Chris Nuttall /...
Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year
This is why there should have been far more scrutiny during Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp which now clearly seem like horizontal mergers that should have triggered antitrust scruti...
Throttling iPhones with older batteries was the right decision, but Apple's lack of transparency undermines customers and fuels conspiracy theories
but says it's for your own good Gordon Kelly / Forbes : Why Every iPhone Contains A Nasty Surprise Marius Nestor / Softpedia News : Apple Is Now Being Sued for Slowing Down Older iPhones Tyler Lee / U...
A look at how Estonia is building a digital society, with projects such as e-Estonia that move bureaucratic processes online for its 1.3M citizens
Nathan Heller / New Yorker : Tweets: @newyorker , @opdeatheatersus , @newyorker , @imran , @nathanheller , @erictopol , @jdennelind , @nathanheller , @nagrikta , @nathanheller , @gquaggiotto , @abdih...
CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and others decry Trump's decision to withdraw US from Paris climate accord as Musk exits Trump advisory councils
and the move could spell bigger problems for Tesla Paris Martineau / New York Magazine : For an International Pact That's ‘Anti-Business,’ the Paris Agreement Sure Seems Popular in the Tech Industry J...