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April 9, 2018, 6:30 AM

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New York Times:
Sources: preparing for Zuckerberg's congressional testimony, Facebook hired advisers who are coaching him and role-playing members of Congress in mock hearings  —  For Facebook, Tuesday is being seen as a kind of dreaded final exam.  —  That's when Mark Zuckerberg, the company's chief executive …
Zeynep Tufekci / Wired:
Despite repeated apologies over 14 years from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has continued to violate users' privacy, driven primarily by its business model  —  IN 2003, ONE year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard …
Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
After CNBC inquiry, Facebook suspends CubeYou, a firm that made popular quiz apps for Cambridge University and bragged it had personal info of tens of millions  —  - Data analytics firm CubeYou used personality quizzes clearly labeled for “non-profit academic research” to help marketers find customers.
Carl Meyer / National Observer:
Simina Mistreanu / Foreign Policy:
Life in Rongcheng offers inside preview of China's social credit system, which mixes credit scores with monitoring data of citizens, launches nationally in 2020  —  RONGCHENG, CHINA — Rongcheng was built for the future.  Its broad streets and suburban communities were constructed with an eye …
Susan Benesch:
Twitter partners with academic researchers to test whether showing users the Twitter rules will improve online behavior and reduce abuse  —  With multiple methods, online abuse can be greatly diminished—if we also discover which methods actually work in which situations.
Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:
Experts raise alarm over proliferation of plastic surgery games aimed at kids/teens, a demographic very vulnerable to negative body image self-perception  —  In the Android mobile game Princess Plastic Surgery, a blonde, bug-eyed princess has been cursed by a witch.  “The witch made them ugly!” the app description reads.
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Skydio R1 drone: remarkable autonomous flight, simple setup and use, but it is primarily for shooting video with no hi-res photo capability and pricey at $2,499  —  The world's first fully autonomous consumer drone is a peek at the future of robotic aviation  —  The purpose of a consumer drone remains nebulous these days.
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing launches a pilot food delivery service in China  —  Amid plenty of speculation, China's ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing has officially entered the food delivery space.  —  The company, which acquired Uber's China-based business in 2016 …
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