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Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US — Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come.
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Starbucks says it's pausing ads on “all social media platforms”, but isn't joining #StopHateForProfit boycott campaign, will continue to advertise on YouTube — - Starbucks is the latest company to say it will pause advertising on “all social media platforms” …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
With top 100 brands contributing only an estimated 6% of Facebook's revenue and Zuckerberg's voting control over the company, ad boycott's impact may be limited — (CNN)For years, Facebook (FB) has been viewed as one of the only truly indispensable digital advertising platforms for big …
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Organizers of “Stop Hate for Profit” Facebook ad boycott say they plan to take the campaign global, starting with Europe, after the campaign's success in the US — (Reuters) - Organizers of a Facebook Inc (FB.O) advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box, will introduce a 20W power adapter to be sold separately — Apple is set to be significantly slimming its packaging for its upcoming iPhone line. The analyst previously said that Apple will no longer include wired earbuds with the iPhone 12 …
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| Isabelle Khurshudyan / Washington Post: |
How Telegram, using Google and Amazon's cloud services, humiliated and outmaneuvered Russia's state telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, and survived the ban — MOSCOW — The man who took on the Kremlin and won is rarely heard from: a tech nomad in self-imposed exile with a reclusive aura …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers who flagged TikTok and 55 other iOS apps for clipboard snooping in March say the majority of apps they identified still continue the practice — Passwords, bitcoin addresses, and anything else in clipboards are free for the taking. — In March, researchers uncovered …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple's decision in Feb. to limit HTTPS certs' lifespan to 398 days in Safari has been mimicked by Chrome and Firefox to the dismay of Certificate Authorities — Apple, Google, and Mozilla reduce the lifespan for HTTPS certificates to 398 days, against the wishes of Certificate Authorities.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
As Republicans flock to Parler, its user base has grown 50% to 1.5M in about a week, according to CEO, who says it's trying to pay liberals on Twitter to join — - Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said.
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SiliconANGLE, Reclaim The Net, and Fast Company
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple says it has declined to implement 16 new Web APIs in Safari because they posed a threat to user privacy by opening new avenues for user fingerprinting — Apple said these 16 new Web APIs add new user fingerprinting opportunities for online advertisers.
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
Apple's two year timeline for Mac's transition to Apple Silicon is a demonstration of some of the most remarkable product engineering over time in history — Apple's announcement of “Apple Silicon” is important for many reasons. Delivering on such an undertaking is the result of remarkable product engineering.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Apple Must, Wired, and AskWoody
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi on Microsoft shutting Mixer down, Twitch's market power, the need for low latency streaming, and his own startup journey — Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive … Thanks:@taylor_soper
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