Facebook Admits It’s Probably Not The Best Thing For Democracy
Facebook likes democracy. The feeling isn’t mutual. That’s according to a refreshingly honest assessment by Facebook, published Monday as a blog under the site’s recurring “hard questions” feature. In it, Facebook’s global politics and...
Source: Twitter Pins #ReleaseTheMemo on Republicans, Not Russia
The online groundswell urging the release of House Republicans’ attacks on the Federal Bureau of Investigation appears thus far to be organically American—not Russian propaganda, a source familiar with Twitter’s internal analysis told The...
Want to See the Future? Look at the Chips
Nakul Duggal, Qualcomm's vice president of product management, sticks his head into a Cadillac SUV and points up at a gaping rectangular hole in the ceiling. A hole in this ceiling is hardly remarkable:...
Why Twitter won’t remove Trump’s nuclear tweet
Trump’s tweet raising the prospect of nuclear war with North Korea isn’t in violation of Twitter’s guidelines, the company says, and will remain online. In the tweet, Trump boasted that his “Nuclear Button”...
AltspaceVR CEO joins Facebook months after selling his startup to Microsoft
After selling his social virtual reality startup to Microsoft in October, Eric Romo, the co-founder of AltspaceVR, is joining the competing social VR team at Facebook as its product director, where he will...
Uber developed secret system to lock down staff computers in a police raid
System called Ripley was reportedly used at least two dozen times in 2015 and 2016, including once to prevent tax investigators from collecting evidenceUber developed a secret system called Ripley that would lock down...
