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Facebook rep denies under oath that the company devotes any resources to identifying promising tech acquisitions
Perault’s testimony contradicts reports and leaked documents which show that the company used its Onavo VPN app to monitor the popularity of WhatsApp before acquiring it.
Moderate voices on Twitter are lost in a sea of outrage, research shows
Twitter is causing people to product outrage content, or be ignored.
Amazon and Google don’t like you calling their smart speakers “surveillance devices”
The companies are trying to battle the negative perception of their smart speakers.
Amazon is on the brink of EU antitrust investigation
Amazon will face investigation within days.
Apple to make its own podcasts and compete with indie podcasters, cementing its role as a publisher
Some podcasters are worried that Apple will use its dominance to its own advantage.
President Trump says he’s “looking at” Google’s ties to Chinese military
After Peter Thiel’s suggestion about Google being compromised by China, President Trump is taking it seriously.
Sen. Mazie Hirono calls Social Media Summit guests “social media’s leading racists and conspiracy theorists”
Hirono also claimed that YouTube “dragged its feet” when demonetizing comedian Steven Crowder and suggested that Google isn’t doing enough to censor content on its platforms.
Fox 10 News host slams those who criticize her for using alternative social platform: “F*ck them”
Kari Lake explained that she’s reaching more people, the more platforms she’s on.
Amazon offers US Prime Day shoppers $10 to install data-harvesting extension
If users interact with the Amazon Assistant extension, their browsing data is connected with their Amazon account.
Apple has indirectly campaigned against state privacy laws, report shows
Apple appears to only be interested in federal privacy laws, not individual state laws.
Peter Thiel says “woke” Google employees prefer China to the US
Thiel spoke on Tucker Tonight and questioned the allegiances of Google to the United States.
Google uses auto-generated AMP pages that likely reduce the likelihood of users clicking out of Google
The content also appears to be generated from publisher’s pages but reduces the need for users to click through to publishers.