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November 1, 2020, 8:00 PM

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David Pierce / Protocol:

A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers — Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends …

Tweets: @joshelman, @adamnash, @rachaelrad, @sachinrekhi, @drorpoleg, @willreed_21, @peterpham, @bgurley, @protocol, @kevinctofel, @panzer, @postimusmaximus, @aweary, @martinsfp, @s8mb, @lordravenscraft, @protocol, and @bromid

Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs:

The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations — Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine.

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, and Reclaim The Net

Tweets: @internetarchive, @waybackmachine, @xor, @ctardaguila, @ngleicher, @noupside, @balajis, @raymserrato, @sethcotlar, @donie, @mhall119, @cindyotis_, @brandyzadrozny, @nathonsecurity, and @skepticaliblog

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Washington Post:

Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement — From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.

Washington Post:

A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him — Researchers say the online feedback loop between Trump, high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers is more dangerous than Russian disinformation.

Tweets: @lizzadwoskin, @alfonslopeztena, @tripgabriel, @markseibel, @stillgray, @adamconner, @brendannyhan, @geoffreyfowler, @arunindy, @cfiesler, @simonwdc, and @marston4ca42

Financial Times:

Sources: Huawei is working on plans for a dedicated chip plant in Shanghai that aims to produce 28nm chips by the end of 2021 and 20nm chips by late 2022 — Shanghai facility aimed at breaking Chinese company's dependence on American technology — Huawei is working on plans …

More: Engadget, caixinglobal.com, TheStreet, Forbes, Bloomberg, and Slashdot

Tweets: @daniele_manca, @chinabeigebook, @shivamvahia, @chadbown, @yuanfenyang, @dankwone, and @markoff

Tom Krazit / Protocol:

Profile of Google Cloud's Kelsey Hightower, a respected figure in cloud computing and one of the few prominent Black men in enterprise infrastructure tech — Peter Idah had met Kelsey Hightower before. But this time, he brought his son. — It was March 2016, and the Kubernetes jamboree …

Tweets: @kelseyhightower, @jbeda, @apbhatnagar, @marktechson, @vicnastea, @cyberomin, @jeffdean, @tomkrazit, @kstewart, and @mamund

Lauren Goode / Wired:

How Massachusetts' ballot proposal requiring carmakers to install standardized, open data-sharing platforms on cars with telematics may shape right to repair — Question 1 would amend the state's right-to-repair law and expand access to car data. But big automakers are pushing back.

Tweets: @waltmossberg, @laurengoode, @mikaljakubal, and @gadgetlab

Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:

Researchers have developed a deep learning technique that can significantly decrease the computational capacity required to solve partial differential equations — Unless you're a physicist or an engineer, there really isn't much reason for you to know about partial differential equations. I know.

More: arXiv. Tweets: @caltech, @negaciso, @diop_wb, and @acronis

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter lifts restrictions from the NY Post's Twitter account, updating its practice of “not retroactively overturning prior enforcement” — Social-media company reverses policy that previously required newspaper to delete old tweets before being able to tweet again

More: New York Post, New York Post, The Hill, The Verge, Variety, Mediaite, and TheBlaze

Tweets: @twittersafety, @twittersafety, @mattbilinsky, @sarah_micheleg, @tedcruz, @mmasnick, @twittersafety, @sohrabahmari, @brithume, and @seanmdav

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From Mediagazer

Associated Press:

President Trump signed an EO on May 1 instructing CPB and other agencies to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, alleging “bias” in the broadcasters' reporting

Washington Post:

After VOA director said staff can begin a “phased return”, an appeals court stays the preliminary injunction that allowed VOA and USAGM staffers to go back

Sean Burch / The Wrap:

The LA Times Guild says 14 of its members have been laid off, or 6% of its newsroom staff, the third round of newsroom layoffs at LAT in as many years

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Christine Hall / Crunchbase News:

Cloud video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks raises $40M Series E from Accel to invest in new AI projects such as license plate recognition

More: Eagle Eye Networks, Homeland Security Today, Austin Business Journal, Pulse 2.0, Help Net Security, and FinSMEs. Tweets: @jstrauss

Nick Greenhalgh / Denver Business Journal:

StackHawk, whose tech helps developers find application security vulnerabilities before they get into production, raises $10M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures

More: FinSMEs and Business Insider

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Wise, which helps companies offer business bank accounts to their own customers, raises $12M Series A led by e.ventures

More: New.blicio.us and FinSMEs

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A

More: Cheddar, Skan, Pulse 2.0, Crowdfund Insider, and FinSMEs

FinSMEs:

DriveWealth raises $56.7M Series C for its digital brokerage services that help broker-dealers and its global online partners access the US securities market

More: TechCrunch, Business Wire, Financial Planning, AltFi, Benzinga, Business Insider, Pulse 2.0, Finextra, and Fintech Today

Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu:

Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale Salesforce customers, raises $25M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures

More: SearchDataBackup, AiThority, Crunchbase News, and Odaseva

Earlier Picks

Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes:

StrongDM, which grants and mediates user access to enterprise backend infrastructure and logs user actions in video replay, raises $17M Series A led by Sequoia

Tweets: @forbestech

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:

How Trump's presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies

Tweets: @patrick_fenelon and @theatlantic

Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:

Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules

Tweets: @larakiara and @appfairness

New York Times:

Misinformation on social media, alongside Trump's lies, is overwhelming local election officials across the US as they shoot down rumors via phone and email

Tweets: @wiczipedia, @zittrain, @daveyalba, @nicoleperlroth, and @nytimesbusiness

Rest of World:

Filipino activists and journalists want Facebook to tackle deadly disinformation coming from the government, resulting in enemies being “red-tagged” and killed

Tweets: @bigdata, @restofworld, @momblogger, @peterguest, @niemanlab, and @cengizyar

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:

CISA, FBI say an Iran-linked APT targeted unsecured state election websites to harvest US voter info used to send threatening emails to some Democratic voters

More: CISA, CyberScoop, Engadget, Reuters, and news.com.au

Tweets: @uscert_gov, @kimzetter, @defede, @ncscgov, @ericgeller, and @zackwhittaker