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| Rashaan Ayesh / Axios: |
Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230 — President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies …
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| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Trump EO misreads Section 230 by conflating two independent subsections and asking the FCC to link the two provisions together, despite previous rulings — This post based its initial analysis on a draft Executive Order. It has been updated to reflect the final order, available here.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Trump's EO has limited power, as content created by a platform, like Twitter's labels, is not covered by Section 230 and the FCC lacks authority to enforce EO — We've officially reached pure silly season when it comes to internet regulations. For the past two years now, every so often …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Source: Trump's executive order was rushed through using an old draft that was circulated last year, overriding concerns from agencies and Section 230 reformers — After Twitter slapped a fact-check label on two of President Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots late Tuesday, the president ordered his staff to respond.
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| New York Times: |
Trump's social media EO, if enacted, would create problems for him, attacking the legal provision that allows inflammatory, harassing, and untruthful messages — Without certain liability protections, companies like Twitter would have to be more aggressive about policing messages that press the boundaries — like the president's.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Twitter adds a rule violation notice to Trump's tweet threatening Minneapolis protestors, saying it glorifies violence; users must click to see the tweet — Twitter said Friday morning that a tweet from President Trump in which he threatened shooting in response to civil unrest in Minneapolis violated the company's rules.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz is stepping down as CEO, says the company has raised “significant” funding and pivoted to spatial computing for enterprise — Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz confirmed he has raised a new round of funding, and he also said that he will step down as the augmented reality company's top executive.
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| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Inside Twitter's decision to fact-check Trump's tweets, while expecting that Trump would respond and the decision could spark a reassessment of Section 230 — ‘We knew from a comms perspective that all hell would break loose,’ says Twitter's vice president of global communications
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| João Carrasqueira / Neowin: |
Twitter now lets users schedule tweets in advance, up to 18 months, and gives users the option to save tweet drafts from its web app — A few weeks ago, it was reported that Twitter was testing the ability to let users schedule tweets to be published at a specific time.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
ACLU sues Clearview AI in Illinois alleging the facial recognition startup violated residents' privacy by scraping, selling their online photos without consent — Alleging Clearview violated a well-known Illinois biometric privacy law — The American Civil Liberties Union …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Android Studio 4.0, with Motion Editor for making MotionLayout animations and tools to allow previewing apps in 3D and in multiple screen sizes — In a normal year, Google I/O would traditionally mark the release of a new version of Android Studio.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
NSA warns Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group has been actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Exim mail transfer agent since Aug., exposing ~2.5M servers — The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) says that Russian military threat actors known as Sandworm Team have been exploiting …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Samsung is partnering with Winklevoss' crypto exchange Gemini to allow users to more easily trade and store digital assets on mobile phones — - Gemini's app will integrate with Samsung's blockchain wallet — Partnership seen making crypto use easier on Samsung phones| The Markup: |
Investigation finds many tenant screening services, relying on algorithms to find infractions and widely used by landlords, often produce flawed reports — Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports.| IDC: |
Global shipments of wearable devices reached 72.6M units in Q1, growing 29.7% YoY, with Apple shipping 21.2M units for a 29.3% market share — Global shipments of wearable devices grew 29.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) as total device volume reached 72.6 million units according …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Didi Chuxing raises $500M led by SoftBank for its autonomous driving division, the first external investment for the fledgling self-driving subsidiary — Didi Chuxing has scored more than $500 million of funding for its autonomous driving division in a round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Chapters, letting creators add timestamps to their videos, for all users across iOS, Android, and desktop — If you've ever found yourself scrubbing your way through a long YouTube video to get to the “good” part, you'll appreciate the new feature YouTube is launching today: Video Chapters.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details its work with Google to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge, switching over to Windows Spellcheck, with better support for URLs and more — Better support for URLs, acronyms, and more — Google and Microsoft have worked together to improve the spellcheck experience in Chrome and Edge.
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