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Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines — Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO's ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site …
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Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election — The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.
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Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages — In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian …
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Sources: Biden administration is preparing many actions to disrupt ransomware payments, including sanctions on some crypto wallets and exchanges next week — Biden administration hopes to disrupt digital finance infrastructure that facilitates ransomware cyberattacks, a threat traced to Russia
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Telegram has exploded as an alternative to the dark web where criminals buy, sell, and share stolen data and hacking tools — New research shows growing network of hackers sharing data leaks on encrypted messaging app — Telegram has exploded as a hub for cybercriminals looking to buy …
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Google to bring an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven't been used in months, to phones running Android 6 and above — Resetting an app's permissions if it hasn't been used in a while — Android 11's auto-resetting permissions … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says Tesla will use a week of personal driving data to determine whether owners who paid for “Full Self-Driving” can access its latest beta version — Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will use personal driving data to determine whether owners who have paid for its controversial …
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How law enforcement's ability to track people via commercially available data blurs the line between investigative due diligence and warrantless surveillance — Agencies' growing use of purchased data without warrants raises new legal questions — In January 2020, a 14-year-old girl …
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| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella sues to stop co-founder Dash from selling the copyright to Jay-Z's debut album as an NFT, saying he has no legal right to do so — - Rapper battles co-founder Dash over NFT rights to debut album — Lawsuits proliferate as non-fungible token market takes off| Bloomberg: |
Tencent now lets WeChat users link to rival services such as Taobao or Douyin for the first time, complying with demands by Chinese regulators — - WeChat users can now link to and access Taobao, Douyin content — Move's in response to Beijing's call to free closed ecosystems| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Glean, an enterprise search engine startup cofounded by Google and Facebook veterans, emerges from stealth with $55M in funding across two rounds — When Arvind Jain left his cushy tech job to cofound cloud data management company Rubrik, he ran into a familiar problem: search.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents — - Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of criticism after comparing the value of social networks to society to that of cars.
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