Daily Archives: June 23, 2020

Twitter took its latest action on content from President Trump Tuesday, again hiding a threat of state violence behind a warning label and appending it with a notice. Trump’s latest offending tweet declared “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be […]

Twitter hides Trump tweet threatening protesters with ‘serious force’

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Twitter took its latest action on content from President Trump Tuesday, again hiding a threat of state violence behind a warning label and appending it with a notice. Trump’s latest offending tweet declared “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be […]

Twitter hides Trump tweet threatening protesters with ‘serious force’

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Two months after Quibi’s high-profile launch as a short-form mobile-native TV app led by billionaires Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, it is evident the startup is greatly underperforming relative to the hundreds of millions of dollars already spent on content and marketing.  According to a Wall Street Journal report, “daily downloads peaked at 379,000 on […]

What went wrong with Quibi?

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A landmark regulatory intervention that seeks to apply structural antitrust remedies to cut big (ad)tech’s rights-hostile surveillance business models down to size has been revived after Germany’s federal court overturned an earlier ruling that had suspended enforcement of a ban on Facebook combining user data. The upshot is the tech giant could be forced to […]

Antitrust case against Facebook’s ‘super profiling’ back on track after ...

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A landmark regulatory intervention that seeks to apply structural antitrust remedies to cut big (ad)tech’s rights-hostile surveillance business models down to size has been revived after Germany’s federal court overturned an earlier ruling that had suspended enforcement of a ban on Facebook combining user data. The upshot is the tech giant could be forced to […]

Antitrust case against Facebook’s ‘super profiling’ back on track after ...

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Snap’s latest developer offering is a tool called Verify that’s aiming to save its mobile-first developers cash on verifying user phone numbers en masse. The new tool is being integrated into its Login Kit framework allowing devs with a “Log In with Snapchat” button to move away from tapping services like Twilio for SMS verification, […]

Snapchat adds free phone number verification to its list of ...

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