The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Regulators are asking the company to pledge that it won’t use Fitbit data to “further enhance its search advantage.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk told the New York Times that his Twitter direct messages are mostly made up of memes, and he isn’t overly worried about them being hacked. But they may be a start. Javier Espinoza / Financial Times ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Trending sideways : Facebook pledged to reach “net zero” carbon emissions, offsetting its global power consumption by investing in renewable energy projects that capture and store carbon dioxide. Also, here’s a TikTok meme power ranking. And they deserve better answers than Sophie Zhang has gotten to date. Rebecca Jennings / Vox ).

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Or even what ever happened to Trump’s 2019 pledge to investigate Google for “treason” (?!). The liberal Facebook page Occupy Democrats has emerged as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing meme factories on the platform. Or why the government was relying on tech giants for so much of its pandemic response at all. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

The news comes nearly a month after the company pledged to remove its ethnicity filter in support of Black Lives Matter protests. But while the attack has become a kind of resistance meme, it’s unclear whether the hoax actually worked. But all that may be beside the point — you don’t always have to be right to land a punch.

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