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October 23, 2021, 11:30 PM

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New York Times:
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous  —  Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.
Michael Riley / Bloomberg:
Internal docs show Facebook staff faulted the company for failing to thwart the proliferation of Groups, like Stop The Steal, that fomented January 6 violence  —  Employees and the company's own research highlight ways Facebook failed to police its platforms ahead of the siege on the Capitol
New York Times:
Internal docs show the extent of Facebook's knowledge of extremist Groups on its site but don't offer a complete picture of its decision-making in response  —  Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies …
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Internal docs: Facebook employees created a test account in 2019 and within days it was recommended extreme and conspiratorial content, including QAnon Groups  —  In the summer of 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother …
Washington Post:
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Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
CISA warns of malware discovered in npm package UAParser.js, which has 6M-7M downloads weekly, that installs a password stealer and a crypto miner on systems  —  A massively popular JavaScript library (npm package) was hacked today and modified with malicious code that downloaded and installed …
Leah Nylen / Politico:
Docs from 16 AGs' Google suit: Google sought help from Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft to stall federal efforts to strengthen an online privacy law for children  —  Unsealed court documents say the search giant sought help from Apple, Facebook and Microsoft to “find areas of alignment.”
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
A look at the bitter privacy debate in a Colorado neighborhood over the use of license plate scanners made by Flock, whose customer base has risen 4x since 2019  —  A battle among homeowners in the Colorado mountains shows how a new generation of surveillance technology is reshaping American neighborhoods
Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
Embrace, a mobile data intelligence startup, raises a $45M Series B led by NEA  —  Many companies collect data from all of their users, but they don't know what is good or bad data until it is collected and analyzed.  Now in this increasingly mobile-first world, we use our phones for everything …
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Tel Aviv and Palo Alto-based Metrolink.ai, which is developing a data management service, raises a $22 million seed led by Grove Ventures  —  Israel- and Palo Alto, California-based Metrolink.ai, which is developing a platform for data management, today announced that it raised $22 million …
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
Facebook files a lawsuit against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping and selling the personal data of 178M+ users on a cybercrime forum  —  Facebook has filed a lawsuit on Friday against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping its website and selling the personal data …

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