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Inside Twitter's Friday meeting where Jack Dorsey and executives discussed Infowars, what “dehumanizing speech” means, and a possible drafting of new policies — SAN FRANCISCO — With his arms folded, Jack Dorsey paced back and forth in a conference room at Twitter's headquarters on Friday afternoon.
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| Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney: |
Twitter says it found 7 tweets by Infowars or Alex Jones that broke rules but accounts won't be suspended; 2 of the now-deleted tweets were made after Dec. 2017 — Twitter said Friday that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would …
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| Jeff Jarvis / The Atlantic: |
Internet platforms are places of public conversations where society negotiates norms of acceptable behavior; Infowars bans show the process is starting to work — This post was updated on Friday, August 10 at 7:53 p.m. to reflect the author's role as the founder of a Facebook-funded project.| BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter suspends several accounts associated with the right-wing group Proud Boys and founder Gavin McInnes for violating policy on violent extremist groups — Twitter suspended several accounts associated with the Proud Boys, a right-wing group present at last year's Unite the Right rally …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Fortune, and HuffPost
Tweets: @tayhatmaker, @monaeltahawy, @edzitron, @tomcoates, @slpng_giants, and @brutapologist
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| Michael H. Keller / New York Times: |
A look at the fake YouTube views ecosystem where sites like Devumi.com and 500Views.com sell millions of bot-generated views and how YouTube is fighting it — Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos' popularity and creating an environment ripe for manipulation.
Tweets: @nytimes, @ilvestoomas, @politicalshort, @nytimes, and @gabrieldance
| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Kim Nilsson's and other WizSec cofounders' quest to find Mt. Gox's hackers, which traced stolen bitcoins to BTC-E and its alleged admin Alexander Vinnik — Rampant thefts are taking the shine off cryptocurrencies. After the Mt. Gox debacle, Kim Nilsson decided to fight back.| Cory Fields: |
Bitcoin developer describes how he found a critical blockchain splitting vulnerability, now fixed, in competing Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrency — My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability — On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability …
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CCN, The Next Web, CryptoGlobe, Fortune, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Mashable, Trustnodes, Bitsonline, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @jimmysong, @vinnylingham, and @ercwl
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Facebook's David Marcus is stepping down from Coinbase board citing his new assignment to lead the social media giant's blockchain strategy — David Marcus is stepping down from the board of directors at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, citing his new assignment at Facebook leading the social media giant's blockchain strategy.
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Business Insider, Fortune, Cheddar, CryptoGlobe, The Block Crypto, CoinSpeaker, Bitcoinist.com, Telegraph, Bankless Times, TechCrunch, SludgeFeed, PaymentsSource, VentureBeat, and Axios. Tweets: @chrismessina
| Matt Harris / Fortune: |
Fintech startup trends: most growth in real estate and crypto, wealth and investment startup activity steady, payments and lending are least active, and more — I've been proven wrong once again. — For eight years running, I've predicted that fintech investment is going to plateau.| Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post: |
Marketers are finding ways to reach children as young as 6 through YouTube influencers, apps, and Snapchat filters, raising concerns of undue influence — Nine-year-old Isabella Colello shops for just about everything online. — She scrolls through the Amazon app on her phone at least once a day.
Tweets: @rachsieg and @commercialfree
| Kathryn Watson / CBS News: |
Law firm serves Wikileaks a lawsuit via Twitter on behalf of the DNC; a federal judge approved the move after attempts to serve the lawsuit via email failed — The Democratic National Committee on Friday officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks via Twitter, employing a rare method to serve …
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Engadget, Mashable, The Week, ABC News, Gizmodo, Splinter, The Hill, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @processservicec, @lachlan, @chrizap, and @spicyfiles
| Kevin Rawlinson / The Guardian: |
Report: UK's advertising regulator to rule that Amazon Prime's “unlimited one-day delivery” claims are misleading in the case of some items — Advertising Standards Authority set to rule on claims about retailer's Prime service — Amazon is to be told to stop claiming …
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Engadget, The Times & The Sunday Times, and Axios
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