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• Vincent Wang

  

  Mark Zuckerberg: over 99 percent of Facebook content is authentic

  Engadget - Jon Fingas

  At the same time, a leak shows that leadership questioned Facebook's influence on the election. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is clearly riled by allegations that his social network skewed the election by allowing fake news to propagate, and he isn't having any of it. The CEO has posted a defense …

• Vincent Wang

  

  Facebook puts friends above publishers in “News Feed Values” and ranking change

  TechCrunch - Josh Constine

  After the conservative trends fiasco, Facebook is pushing itself to a new standard of transparency. The company is publishing a formal “News Feed Values” document that details how it decides what shows up in your feed — a common question amongst users. Those core values are that friends and family …

• Vincent Wang

  

  A 19-year-old created a free robot lawyer that has beaten 160,000 parking tickets

  Business Insider - Danielle Muoio

  The very first robot lawyer that was designed to challenge parking tickets has been wildly successful since it was launched last Fall. British programmer Joshua Browder, 19, launched the beta version of the bot in London in September. In that month alone, 3,000 people used the service to appeal …

• Vincent Wang

  

  The ineffectiveness of digital video and traditional TV ads

  Business Insider - Robert Elder

  This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Video ads on both the internet and traditional TV are failing to reach and resonate with audiences, according to a new study conducted by ORC International and …

• Vincent Wang

  

  Australia tests out putting crossing signals where you're really looking: down

  CNET - Jessica Dolcourt

  The government is reportedly experimenting with ground-level semaphores for pedestrians who stare at their phones while crossing the street.

• Vincent Wang

  

  ​Appliance Science: How the Amazon Dash button works

  CNET - Richard Baguley, Colin McDonald

  ​Appliance Science: Push button, order stuff. The Amazon Dash Button makes ordering things as simple as pressing a button when you realize you are running low. Appliance Science looks at how it works.