President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial
reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality
The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.
A draft White House EO shows President Trump plans to step up pressure against big banks over alleged discrimination against crypto companies and conservatives
The president is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that targets so-called debanking of businesses including crypto companies
Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him
Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea
Internal records undercut claims that Twitter censored pro-Trump views before the Capitol riot and show a reluctance to suspend Trump's account until January 8
In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence. Mastodo...
LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation including debt, raising ~$384M; Grindr had $147M revenue in 2021, up 30% YoY
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Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple ...
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
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will pay $1B to creators by the end of 2022; creators can earn money using Instagram or Facebook tools or by hitting milestones
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times :
McDonald's says hackers breached its operations in some markets, exposing some US business info and delivery customer data in South Korea and Taiwan
Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal :
Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era
Facebook's chief, once uninterested, has transformed himself into an active political operator in the Trump era
Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era
with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://www.wsj.com/... https://t...
Email shows Facebook execs mulling how to remove a fact check label, determined to be well founded, after it was applied to a viral climate misinfo post
under pressure from @RepMikeJohnson. Climate change is not a matter of opinion. Facebook's @OversightBoard must fix this now. https://heated.world/... Climate Power / @climatepower...
Sources: Facebook is quietly helping to launch American Edge, a political advocacy group in Washington, to battle regulators trying to rein in the tech industry
The organization, called American Edge, arrives at a time when the industry is facing withering antitrust scrutiny in Washington.
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources include Breitbart News, says Facebook wants “to include a breadth of content in there”
On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
media company execs, 6 months from now. https://twitter.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : One between the lines note: Regular Facebook newsfeed is Trump Trump and more Trump. New Fac...
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources includes Breitbart News, says Facebook wants to “to include a breadth of content in there”
On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.
In prepared remarks for Congress, Mark Zuckerberg argues Libra “will extend America's financial leadership” and that China is pursuing similar projects
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