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Facebook shuts down Trump-linked “Stop the Steal” Group, which was spreading disinfo about the election and amassed 360,000+ followers since launching a day ago — The group, run by Trump allies, is spreading disinformation about the election and calling for “boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote.”
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Sources: Facebook plans to temporarily add more “friction” to users' ability to share posts and other content — New measures would slow down the flow of information and make election misinformation less visible, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter permanently bans Steve Bannon's @WarRoomPandemic and YouTube pulls episode of his show after he called for execution of FBI director Wray and Dr. Fauci — Former Presidential advisor and right-wing pundit Steve Bannon had his show suspended from Twitter and an episode removed …
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Internal Facebook metric that assesses “violence and incitement trends” based on hashtags and search terms in posts increased by 45% since October 31 — As votes are being tallied across the country to determine the next US president, internal Facebook data shows that the company …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Both Facebook and TikTok have blocked some hashtags being used to spread misinformation around the election — Twitter says it's ‘proactively monitoring’ them — Facebook and TikTok have blocked hashtags that were being used to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories about the presidential election.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Twitter says Trump's special treatment around offensive or misleading content rule violations will expire in January if he loses the presidency — - For now, violating posts get warning label, not removal — But ‘world leader’ newsworthiness rules wouldn't apply
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Hands-on with iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max: mini's size requires adjustment but some gestures are easier, whereas the Max feels like a scaled up iPhone — Hands-on with Apple's big (and small) iPhone 12 models — Apple's iPhone 12 and 12 Pro are the “default” size iPhones this year.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
DOJ says it is suing for the forfeiture of $1B+ in bitcoin, seized on Tuesday, related to the Silk Road marketplace — - Justice Department seeks forfeiture of funds it seized Tuesday — It's the biggest cryptocurrency bust the government has made — The U.S. is suing for the forfeiture … | Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
T-Mobile reports Q3 revenue of $19.3B, up 45.1% YoY, beating analysts estimates of $18.34B, as it passes 100M total customers — T-Mobile is continuing to grow, even amid the pandemic. On Thursday the nation's second-largest wireless carrier announced that it had crossed the 100-million mark … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 with 100+ new emoji, optimized battery charging for AirPods, intercom support with HomePod and HomePod mini, and more — After releasing the Release Candidate version last week, iOS 14.2 is now available to all iPhone users.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says developers will be required to provide new privacy “nutrition labels” to users in the App Store starting December 8 — Apple has announced today that developers will be required to provide new privacy details to users in the App Store starting December 8.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out payments in India in ten regional languages on Android and iOS, after getting approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) — WhatsApp, which began testing its payments service in India with 1 million users in early 2018, can finally start to expand …
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Sources: Fortnite may return to iOS thanks to a version of Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service that is designed to run in Safari and other browsers — Owners of iPhones and iPads will soon be able to play Fortnite again, via a cloud service, the BBC has discovered.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square beats expectations in Q3, with revenue of $3.03B vs. estimates of $2.04B, up 140% YoY, Cash App revenue up 174% to $435M, Seller gross profits up 12% YoY — Square said Cash App also generated $1.63 billion of bitcoin revenue and $32 million of bitcoin gross profit.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
EA reports Q2 revenue of $1.15B, down 14% YoY, outperforming expectations, but forecasts a weak next quarter due to a possible waning pandemic gaming bump — Electronic Arts reported financial results today that beat Wall Street's expectations with revenue falling 14% to $1.15 billion … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Uber Q3: $3.13B revenue, down 18% YoY, net loss of $1.1B, gross bookings of $14.7B, down 10% YoY; Mobility gross bookings down 50% YoY but Delivery was up 135% — - Uber's third-quarter earnings are out, and the company reported losses of 62 cents per share and revenue of $3.13 billion.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
goPuff, which delivers convenience store items in under 30 minutes, buys liquor store chain BevMo for $350M; goPuff raised $380M in October at a $3.9B valuation — GoPuff is making a big acquisition less than a month after it announced a $380 million round that valued the Philadelphia-headquartered delivery startup at $3.9 billion.
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| AnandTech: |
Review of AMD's 5000 series lineup: AMD's Zen 3 chips demonstrate 19%+ IPC uplift from Zen 2 and best Intel across different workloads with new core design — When AMD announced that its new Zen 3 core was a ground-up redesign and offered complete performance leadership, we had to ask them to confirm if that's exactly what they said.
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