In 2022, Meta quietly began letting ads say past US elections were “rigged” or “stolen”; sources say execs made the decision based on free speech considerations
Company weighed free-speech considerations in changing its policy last year
Over a dozen senior executives left Binance over the past three months; Kaiko: Binance now handles ~50% of all direct crypto trades, vs. ~70% in January 2023
Key take-aways from the article: — Over the past three months, more than a dozen top managers have quit. … Karsten Weide : Looks like @binance, controlling about half the market...
Sources: Apple spent billions of dollars developing a modem chip for the new iPhones to cut ties with Qualcomm, but the chip was slow and prone to overheating
The company set out to design a silicon chip that would allow it to cut ties with Qualcomm, a longtime supplier and bitter foe
Internal docs: a Facebook well-being team's survey found 12.5% of participants reported compulsive use of Facebook that negatively impacted their lives
360 million people—report engaging in compulsive use of social media that hurts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. Then Facebook shut down the research team. https://ww...
A look at Premise, an app that pays users around the world for tasks like taking photos, and has clients like US military using the data to gather intelligence
The Premise app pays users, many in the developing world, to do tasks like taking photos and completing surveys for clients including the U.S. military
Sources: CloutHub and FreeSpace are among the apps vying to be next platform of Trump, who “wants cash money up front” in exchange for followers he would bring
he wants cash flow, not long term value Ben Mullin / @benmullin : Donald Trump wants an up-front licensing fee to bring his brand (and presumably tons of followers) to a new social...
Sources: CloutHub and FreeSpace are among the apps vying to be next platform of Trump, who “wants cash money up front” in exchange for followers he would bring
he wants cash flow, not long term value Ben Mullin / @benmullin : Donald Trump wants an up-front licensing fee to bring his brand (and presumably tons of followers) to a new social...
Analysis of 3,100 sites shows that hospitals are using code to hide pages containing pricing data from being crawled by search engines, violating US federal law
Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis shows Tweets: @ericgeller , @annemariebrid...
Some US supermarkets say they aren't making money through Instacart due to the service's 10% commission on each order
Jaewon Kang / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @layon_overwhale , @eyevariety , @chancekelch , @anthony , @sub8u , @silvermanjacob , and @benpershing Tweets: Leon Overweel / @layon_o...
Sources: Trump admin is providing only limited cybersecurity assistance to Biden's transition team, which now relies on a standard, paid Google Workspace
Twitter says it will transfer @POTUS to Joe Biden when he is sworn in as president, along with other official accounts; Facebook says it will do the same
which allows rule-breaking tweets to remain up, with warning labels — the moment that Biden is sworn in to office.” https://twitter.com/... Ben Pershing / @benpershing : The federa...
Sources: TikTok has chosen a buyer for its US, New Zealand, and Australian businesses, expected to be for $20B-$30B, and could announce as soon as Tuesday
- TikTok has chosen a bidder for its U.S., New Zealand and Australian businesses and could announce the deal as soon as Tuesday.
Investigation: Google Search displays YouTube videos more prominently than nearly identical videos from Facebook and other sites; sources say this is by design
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Sources: DOJ is examining whether Wirecard played a critical role in an alleged $100M bank fraud conspiracy connected to an online marijuana marketplace
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Larry Ellison is hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump next week; while Ellison has consistently backed Republicans, he wasn't a major Trump donor until now
the most significant display of support from a major tech titan for the president, by far,” @teddyschleifer reports https://www.vox.com/... Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : “It ...