Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio to improve “websites and physical sites”; sources say he's tapping Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to lead it
Powell's last speech: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to give … Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Florida man orders beautification of America after gold-plating the White House Mallory Wi...
Salesforce says global online Thanksgiving day sales hit $33.6B, up 6% YoY, and $8.1B in the US, up 8% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $6.1B, up ~9% YoY
Do Not Buy From These Websites Nick Wingfield / The Information : Black Friday Sales Jump Over 10% China.org.cn : Salesforce says 33.6 bln USD spent online globally on Thanksgiving Day KXAN-TV : Small...
Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into Telegram allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderation
Related by education: Saint Petersburg State University BBC : Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport Jones Hayden / Politico : Telegram CEO reportedly arrested at French airport Jennifer ...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
Sources: Salesforce COO Bret Taylor told people close to him that he expects to be promoted to CEO soon
What will Salesforce look like when its co-founder and CEO, Marc Benioff, finally passes the baton to someone else? — The tech industry may get to find out sooner rather than later. Tweets: @amir , ...
Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year
AxiosHQ communications platform to launch with Delta Air Lines and AT&T among early customers — Punchy news startup Axios is betting … Tweets: @stevekopack , @caseynewton , @benmullin , @katie_roof ...
Sources: WarnerMedia is weighing two new streaming services, with a subscription service based on CNN content in 2021 and a free entertainment service for 2022
With Ads Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Hope you weren't planning to watch Wonder Woman 1984 with an HBO Max free trial Tweets: Jessica Toonkel / @jtoonkel : WarnerMedia is discussing a couple more vide...
Libra Association changes its name to the Diem Association, distancing itself from Facebook, plans to launch the “Diem dollar” when the new entity is licensed
the goal from day 1!—and I can't wait to show you what we're building @Novi. https://twitter.com/... Kari Paul / @kari_paul : Remember Facebook's bitcoin project? It is now called Diem, not Libra, in ...
Sources: since 2018, over 110,000 government officials and candidates have been on a Facebook whitelist that prevented them from being fact checked
and subsequently have their reach reduced — for spreading misinformation. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Amir Efrati / @amir : New: *Facebook has political “whitelist” of ...
Unilever says it will halt US advertising on Facebook and Twitter for at least the remainder of 2020, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms
to the point where it has de-indexed entire countries rather than do so — but that dam broke this week. Why? https://www.cjr.org/... Alexia Bonatsos / @alexia : Facebook on the other side of “platform...