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ProPublica: Emails show how Facebook responds to requests by authoritarian governments to censor content, as happened in Turkey during its...
Early this winter, I took a long walk in the Salt Lake City park in which I had been arrested...
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Wisetack, which provides buy-now-pay-later services for in-person business transactions, raises $19M across seed and Series A...
On Valentine’s Day, Texas plunged into a polar vortex the likes of which hadn’t been seen since 1899. Freezing temperatures...
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify will launch an audio advertising marketplace, the Spotify Audience Network, and plans to offer podcasts...
A leaked scientific report jointly prepared by Israel’s health ministry and Pfizer claims that the company’s covid-19 vaccine is stopping...
BuzzFeed News: Sources: Zuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of Alex Jones' ban in 2019 slowed down Facebook's efforts...
Democracies around the world are all mired in one crisis or another, which is why measures of their health are...
Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: Apple's app tracking transparency pushes publishers like Zynga to build their own ad...