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Almost half of the U.S. population does not have a job
Facebook changes algorithm to boost original reporting
Memo: Microsoft suspended its ads on Facebook and Instagram in the US in May and has since expanded the pause globally, over concerns of "inappropriate content"
Techmeme · 2 days ago
Reddit bans The_Donald forum as part of major hate speech purge
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized, the VC firm he co-founded in 2012; Ohanian has become more interested in pre-seed investing
Amazon to pay $1B+ for self-driving tech firm Zoox
Hacker News · 6 days ago
Valence, a LinkedIn-type social network, launches to connect Black founders with VCs, including Accel, Sequoia, GGV, USV, Greylock, and CapitalG
NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson
The DOJ says it's charging Julian Assange in a superseding indictment with recruiting and conspiring with hackers affiliated with LulzSec and Anonymous
Facebook ordered to stop harvesting user data by Germany’s top court
Mercedes and Nvidia team up to develop a platform to update cars with self-driving features, rolling out to Mercedes' entire fleet starting in 2024
Twitter flags a Trump tweet for breaking rules on abusive behavior; it threatened "serious force" against anyone who may try creating an "autonomous zone" in DC
Washington's rush to smash tech's liability protection
Sen. Josh Hawley announces a bill targeting Section 230, letting consumers sue platforms with 30M+ US MAUs over alleged censorship of political speech and more
DOJ proposes Congress adopt new legislation adding conditions to Section 230 protections, opening up Facebook, Google, Twitter, others to additional liability
Shopify goes after Amazon with new Walmart deal
Hacker News · 2 weeks ago
AT&T confirms thousands of job cuts, 250 store closings
House tech investigation seeks CEO testimony in July
Zoom confirms Chinese government asked it to ban activists commemorating Tiananmen Square
Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event.
In a letter to members of Congress, IBM says it's exiting the general-purpose facial recognition business and opposes the use of such tech for mass surveillance
Facebook will start blocking state-controlled media outlets from buying ads in the US this summer and is rolling out labels for ads and posts from those outlets
Cisco says it is postponing the online version of Cisco Live, its major customer event that was scheduled to start Tuesday, amid ongoing protests across the US
After discussing the lack of action on Trump's posts with Mark Zuckerberg, civil rights leaders say they are "stunned by Mark's incomprehensible explanations"
Twitter suspends fake antifa account tied to white nationalists
The business of tear gas
Survey: 54% of Americans agree with adding fact-checking labels to Trump tweets; 60%+ say politicians' lies are a bigger threat than censorship on social media
Sources: President Trump and Mark Zuckerberg had a phone conversation on Friday that was described by both sides as productive
Sen. Ted Cruz calls for criminal investigation of Twitter, alleging it is violating US sanctions against Iran by letting Iranian leaders maintain accounts
Twitter adds a rule violation notice to Trump's tweet threatening Minneapolis protestors, saying it glorifies violence; users must click to see the tweet
Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content that users post on their platforms
Pompeo tells Congress Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China
The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff
Exclusive: New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
Hacker News · 2 months ago