A look at Metaphysic, a company which uses deepfake tech to create ads and restore old film; its founder went viral on TikTok for deepfaking Tom Cruise
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Uber says it is buying alcohol delivery startup Drizly for $1.1B in cash and stock; Drizly co-founder and CEO Cory Rellas is expected to remain with Uber
Samsung says it expects to make an operating profit of $10.6B in the July-September quarter, up 58% YoY, and sales of $7B, up 6% in its earnings guidance
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Samsung (SSNLF) predicts its profit jumped nearly 60% last quarter, suggesting it could soon retake its position …
Facebook says, after an FBI tip, it took down several Pages and accounts pushing a fake left-wing news outlet made by people linked to Russian troll group IRA
New York (CNN Business)People associated with the infamous St. Petersburg troll group that was part of Russia's attempt to interfere …
Uber to require masks or face coverings for drivers and passengers in certain markets and is developing technology to detect drivers' usage of face coverings
(CNN Business)As it anticipates a restart to its core rideshare business amid the pandemic, Uber (UBER) plans to require drivers … Tweets: @brianroemmele , @joshuaogundu , @amberma...
Baseless YouTube conspiracy videos, embraced by CCP media and uploaded to WeChat, Weibo, claim a US Army reservist started the pandemic and are ruining her life
Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place … Tweets: @cnni , @hadas_gold , @seldo , @cnnnewsroom , @jess...
Ireland's Data Protection Commission: Facebook has postponed launching Dating on Valentine's Day in Europe after DPC resorted to an inspection to procure docs
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Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources include Breitbart News, says Facebook wants “to include a breadth of content in there”
On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
media company execs, 6 months from now. https://twitter.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : One between the lines note: Regular Facebook newsfeed is Trump Trump and more Trump. New Fac...
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources includes Breitbart News, says Facebook wants to “to include a breadth of content in there”
On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
At an event with News Corp's Robert Thomson, Mark Zuckerberg says every internet platform has a responsibility to fund and form partnerships for news
media biz dev geniuses in my timeline today Michael Nuñez / @michaelfnunez : Couple of interesting details so far: - Zuck admits “majority of people don't use [secondary tabs]” mea...