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Mall Santa Claus of almost 50 years fired after Trump hat photo posted to Facebook
Once again, peoples’ online photos are costing them their jobs.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki honored by Forbes Most Powerful Women List for tackling “harmful content”
Wojcicki is also recognized for tweaking YouTube’s algorithm in 2019.
Greece proposes “war on cash”, forcing citizens to spend at least 30 percent of their income electronically
The centralization of spending could be forced.
Facebook ordered to reinstate Page of controversial Italian political group
The court ruled that Facebook “excluded or extremely limited it from the Italian political debate.”
YouTube issues strike to Bearings channel as it ramps up retroactive enforcement of its new harassment policy
A three-year old video was also removed.
Bloomberg is roasted online after article image resembles an Amazon Alexa sex toy
The article got attention for all the wrong reasons.
Consumers appear excited for a virtual future, including digital taste and smell
42% of respondents are willing to go into digital adventures instead of traveling.
Apple bans PewDiePie’s new game Poopdie from the App Store
The game is available now for Android but Apple won’t let users download the game for their iPhone.
Apple to co-host Democratic presidential candidate debate, as big tech scrutiny rises
An interesting decision when tech giants are in the crosshairs of politicians.
PewDiePie on YouTube Rewind 2019: “Despite YouTube’s best efforts, YouTube Rewind is still a disaster”
PewDiePie also explained what went wrong and how he would improve it.
Reddit tests “crowd control”, a feature that lets mods suppress comments and opinions from outsiders
Some may dub it “echo chamber” mode.
Keybase’s Stellar Airdop program to end after a series of problems
The lumen (XLM) airdrop scheme, set up by secure messaging service Keybase and the Stellar Foundation – who are behind the Stellar decentralized protocol to transfer cryptocurrency to fiat money – is coming to an end. Announced in September, the airdrop was worth 2 billion XML (Stellar’s crypto