The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

American startups have had very few role models for businesses that made trust and safety a foundational pillar of their companies, because Section 230 means they don’t have to. That was unequivocally the wrong approach.”. For future startups, though, I’d argue it was a useful effort. Tinder introduced its video call feature today.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The Ratio. ?? Non-governmental organizations say American companies pay as much attention to similar situations unfolding in India, Brazil, and Myanmar, among other places. Search for black-owned businesses on Yelp. As a result, offline injustices are being replicated in online speech. Taylor Lyles / The Verge ). Things to do.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Brazil’s Central Bank and antitrust regulator suspended WhatsApp’s payment features in the country, citing antitrust concerns. It’s a setback for Facebook , which introduced WhatsApp’s payments system in Brazil earlier this month. And that’s enough for me to be worried, too. percent for YouTube and 76.6 percent for Twitter.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

ByteDance could fetch a valuation of between $150 billion and $180 billion in an initial public offering, a premium relative to sales of as much as 20% to social media giant Tencent thanks to a larger global footprint and burgeoning games business, estimated Ke Yan , Singapore-based analyst with DZT Research. Shona Ghosh / Business Insider ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

But the TikTok Transparency and Accountability Center is now open for (virtual) business — and on Wednesday I was part of a small group of reporters who got to take a tour over Zoom. Brazil is trying to address misinformation issues with a new bill that would violate the privacy and freedom of expression of its citizens.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

It was barely two months ago that the company removed a post by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for promoting a phony coronavirus cure. Rob Price / Business Insider ). Zuckerberg and Bickert spent much of the all-hands meeting on Friday pushing back on that idea — fairly, I think.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

I realize that nothing about this week feels like business as usual — and it shouldn’t,” he said. Rob Price and Sonam Sheth / Business Insider ). In Brazil, those who criticize the president are often met with a tsunami of digital smears. This led some of you to believe there were upwards of 2 million COVID cases in the state.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Zuckerberg then mentions a case in which Facebook removed a post by the president of Brazil. Amazon started the hiring spree in March with a blog post appealing to workers laid off by restaurants and other shuttered businesses, promising employment “until things return to normal and their past employer is able to bring them back.”.

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