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President Trump used tweets on Russian ad spending from Facebook ads VP Rob Goldman to call reporters covering election interference the “Fake News Media” — President Trump approvingly passed along comments from Facebook ads VP Rob Goldman on Saturday, using Goldman's remarks …
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will mail postcards to would-be buyers of election-related ads mentioning federal candidates, will have codes to verify identity and location — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will start using postcards sent by U.S. mail later this year to verify the identities … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook's focus on Groups, and the tools to build and promote them, can be easily exploited by bad actors like Russia, Mueller indictment shows — It's tribes all the way down — A year ago this past Friday, Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy post titled “Building a Global Community.”| Mike Calia / CNBC: |
US indicts 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities, including Internet Research Agency, in Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections — The special counsel's office said Friday that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities …
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| Chris Dixon: |
How decentralized cryptonetworks, with better incentives for developers, can win against centralized platforms like Google in the next era of the internet — The first two eras of the internet — During the first era of the internet—from the 1980s through the early 2000s …
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| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
How aspiring tech hub cities are trying to foster tech and startup ecosystems that are different from Silicon Valley's “move fast and break things” ethos — DO NOT LET their names fool you. The silicon places—Silicon Slopes, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Beach, Silicon Peach …
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| Ralph Atkins / Financial Times: |
Swiss financial supervisor publishes guidelines meant to support the ICO market by clarifying when anti-money laundering and securities laws apply to them — Switzerland's financial supervisor has bucked the trend of global regulators cracking down on cryptocurrencies by announcing guidelines …
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Eidgenössische …, Bitsonline, Cointelegraph.com News, NewsBTC, Bitcoin Magazine, and CoinDesk
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| Maria Bustillos / Columbia Journalism Review: |
The Internet Archive and others look at blockchain tech to create tamper-proof archives resistant to meddling from governments and billionaires with agendas — When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism's digital legacy.
Tweets: @pressfreedom, @gabrielsnyder, and @cjr
| Wirecutter: |
Hands-on with in-car Alexa-powered dongles: they require an iPhone or an Android phone to function and lack seamless integration with car stereos — Amazon's Alexa, the voice-controlled assistant that lives within the Echo speaker, has become a household name.
Tweets: @wirecutter
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Report: ~15M indie content creators in US used Amazon Publishing, eBay, Etsy, Instagram, Shapeways, Tumblr, Twitch, WordPress, or YouTube to earn ~$6B in 2016 — from the it's-not-tech-v.-hollywood dept — Visit EveryoneCreates.org to read stories of creation empowered by the internet, and share your own!
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Former Meetup employees describe how competition from Facebook, the WeWork acquisition, and a mandatory arbitration agreement weakened the culture at Meetup — Meetup was supposed to be different. — While much of the tech industry struggled to create inclusive work environments …
Tweets: @joshconstine, @kateconger, @melaniehannah, and @tnewmstweet
| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon is expanding its business-to-business marketplace, Amazon Business, into the medical supply industry, plotting to become major supplier to US hospitals — The market for medical supplies is one of a growing number of businesses the online retail giant has set in its sights …
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