The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law. And after Hong Kong passed a new national security law giving vast new surveillance powers to the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok led all social networks in pulling the app from Hong Kong. TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Silicon Valley Bank’s 2020 Global Startup Outlook puts it this way: “[T]he fact is most entrepreneurs never expect to reach a public market exit.” In 2020, there was an approximately 10:1 ratio of acquisitions of VC-backed companies to IPOs, with 1,042 venture-backed companies acquired and 103 entering the public markets.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Tech companies are calling for a nationwide law to govern facial recognition technology. But a heated election year and a global pandemic are creating the perfect conditions for inaction or hasty corner-cutting. In April, it was easy to see that Apple and Google’s approach alone couldn’t stop the spread of the disease. Industry. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Let’s conclude what turned out to be Free Speech Week on The Interface with a look at a case involving the co-chairman of Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a Zoom recording of his law school class, and the N-word. Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The Ratio. ?? Vlad Savov and Melissa Cheok report: The @TeamTrump account had tweeted a video collage of images and clips depicting peaceful protests, moments of mourning and law enforcement officers hugging civilians in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, an African-American man, while in police custody. Matt Day / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. But they have vastly different reasons for why they think the law must change. percent for YouTube and 76.6

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent. India’s unprecedented decision to ban 59 of China’s largest apps could threaten the country’s rise as a global tech power. She published a comprehensive account of the board’s creation today in the Yale Law Journal.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

That was Maxine Williams, Facebook’s global diversity officer. He noted that the original video of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer had been posted to Facebook, sparking global protests. The move escalates a global battle that will affect where tech giants like Facebook and Amazon pay taxes. The pessimist may not.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Upon creation of TikTok Global, Oracle/Walmart will make their investment and the TikTok Global shares will be distributed to their owners, Americans will be the majority and ByteDance will have no ownership in TikTok Global,” Oracle executive vice president Ken Glueck said. Trending up : Facebook says it’s helped 2.5

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

He said the ban seeks to regulate the exchange of “informational materials” — something that’s expressly exempted from the law laying out the emergency powers Trump invoked. Chinese authorities want ByteDance to retain control over TikTok’s global operations. I still think the Telepath founders have a lot of good ideas.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The law firm involved in the suit was also part of a similar suit against Facebook, Wong reported. So far, no global-scale technology company has managed to get this balance right. She also has trouble being around kids and is now frightened to have children, according to the lawsuit.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Today felt like an unusual lull in the intersection of our many unfolding national and global crises, and so I thought I’d take the opportunity to write about something different — a subject that, despite all my best efforts, I keep getting crushingly wrong. Instagram hired Melissa Waters as its new global vice president of marketing.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Marc Santora at The New York Times explains: The new law, which is expected to go into effect Oct. Arizona is leading a multi-US state probe into whether Apple deliberate slowing older iPhones violated deceptive trade practice laws. The QAnan conspiracy theory is spreading globally, thanks in part to the pandemic. Here’s one.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. Trending down : Hong Kong activists worry Apple may be censoring the voting platform PopVote, which was developed for the opposition’s primaries — an unofficial election that also served as a protest against the city’s national security law imposed last month by Beijing.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

And like other projects with global ambitions, it will also invite new scrutiny over privacy, data security, content moderation, and more. Now, a deal with TikTok could mean it needs the law, too. Taken together, the projects may represent Facebook’s single biggest bet on what the future may look like. Amir Efrati / The Information ).

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Perhaps realizing that the app may be caught up in an intractable conflict between global superpowers, TikTok stars have begun to panic. If there’s an argument that a smaller Facebook would somehow make our global hate speech problem worse , I still have yet to read it. Stylistically, they’re laws. The Hill ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One is that there are genuine, good-faith reasons to call for Section 230 reform, even though they’re often drowned out by bad tweets that misunderstand the law. Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Barrett writes (PDF): Ellen P.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The story, by Maxwell Tani and Spencer Ackerman, recounts a controversy that broke out inside the company when one of its 50,000 employees posted a short essay to its internal Workplace forum titled “In Support of Law Enforcement and Black Lives.” Will this help the feature take off globally? Between March 1 and Aug.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

To address ownership concerns, ByteDance plans to do an initial public offering of global TikTok on a U.S. Oracle will also own a minority stake that will be less than 20% of the new global TikTok, two of the people said. As the conspiracy theories grows, hate campaigns against local laws and politicians could become more commonplace.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

there needs to be much more enforcement in the area of hate speech,” Luis Di Como, Unilever’s executive vice president of global media, said. Maybe your reaction is that’s terrible, we should get rid of the law that makes all that posting possible. This represents a global expansion of the protest effort. Sheila Dang / Reuters).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

What a lot of people are saying — people that are really well read into global threats — is that TikTok doesn’t rank. Facebook reviews user data requests through its law enforcement portal manually, without screening the email address of people who request access. Oh, I can think of some things. Sarah Frier / Bloomberg). Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

He said the company would hire 10,000 Americans — no small thing during a global recession. European regulators are drafting new laws aimed a curbing the power of the big tech companies in a way that previously regulations have not. Mayer promised to expand a fund for creators from $200 million to $1 billion. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Many brands took the occasion of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police, and the global protests that have followed, to signal their solidarity with the black community and their allies. The publicly posted sentiments have drawn renewed scrutiny to the companies’ close ties to law enforcement. Sorry for the mistake!

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

The company is already carbon neutral for its global corporate operations, but the new commitment would mean every Apple device sold would have net zero climate impact. LinkedIn plans to cut about 960 jobs, or 6 percent of its global workforce, due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Margaret Harding McGill / Axios ).

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

Authorities and law enforcement officials are helping to push a narrative that outside groups were responsible for inciting violent confrontations at the protests over the weekend. The move affected more than 2,000 people globally who had signed offers to be a contract or temp worker. But there’s little evidence for those claims.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Big tech companies including Google , Amazon and Qualcomm are bankrolling The Global Antitrust Institute at George Mason University, which teaches a hands-off approach to antitrust law. But they may be a start. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Mark Gurman / Bloomberg). Governing. ?

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

When Facebook was founded, the idea of a truly global social network has seemed obvious — inevitable, even. Google gave detailed personal information about far-right users to law enforcement agencies working on counter terrorism, according to leaked documents. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Congress may begin writing letters , and new laws will be proposed, so that such a bad post never again appears on the internet. Law enforcement eventually will? Social networks that reach global scale will always suffer from really bad posts, some of them posted by their most prominent users. Trump added.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

One global company based in America? He wrote in a letter to employees: In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, I have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for. Multiple companies operating independently ?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

You’ll carve away Section 230, the law that says platforms aren’t liable for what users publish, you’ll do algorithmic transparency, you’ll make them audit every content moderation decision they make. We’re marketing nationally, globally, and we’re convincing these customers. And do what? Yeah, that’s tough, right?

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

When India banned TikTok, it added a new fault line to the global internet. Trending down : Microsoft is knee-deep in services for law enforcement, fostering an ecosystem of companies that provide police with software using Microsoft’s cloud and other platforms. The Twitter hack. Here’s hoping we get an answer to that one, and soon.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. The First Amendment doesn’t protect Trump from Twitter.”.

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