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U.S. Politics
A fake viral video makes Nancy Pelosi look drunk. Facebook won’t take it down.
Vox - Emily Stewart
A doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that makes it seem as though she’s drunkenly slurring her words at a public event has spread across the internet in recent days, but Facebook doesn’t plan
WeWork
The controversy over WeWork’s $47 billion valuation and impending IPO, explained
Vox - Matthew Yglesias
In social terms, WeWork — recently renamed the We Company — is one of the modern world’s least controversial high-flying private startups. Centered on the idea of providing flexible workspaces to individuals
Tech Industry
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says social media will get better ... eventually
Vox - Eric Johnson
Right now, it feels like social media is “in the bleakness of figuring out where it needs to go,” Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says. But it won’t be that way forever. “I don’t have any answers as to
Tech Industry
Don’t break up Facebook — replace Mark Zuckerberg, says former security boss Alex Stamos
Vox - Eric Johnson
Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer at Facebook who left the company last year for a role at Stanford University, isn’t convinced that breaking up Facebook will actually solve the problems has
Facebook
Facebook has taken down billions of fake accounts, but the problem is still getting worse
Vox - Emily Stewart
Facebook removed 2.2 billion fake accounts from its platform during the first quarter of the year — nearly double the number it took action on in the prior quarter. The company says the increase is due
Tech Industry
Meet the man with an impossible job: cleaning up YouTube
Vox - Peter Kafka
YouTube, the world’s largest video site, has 2 billion users. Most of them just use YouTube to watch … anything. But some YouTubers put their own videos on the site, too. And those people do that a lot:
Tech Industry
Amazon employees ask their company to address climate change
Vox - Theodore Schleifer
Amazon employees speak up about climate change, but fail to win. Amazon stockholders voted down a proposal on Wednesday that asked CEO Jeff Bezos to consider ways to reduce the company’s carbon footprint.
Tech Industry
How a Silicon Valley startup is trying to rebrand payday loans
Vox - Gaby Del Valle
Once every few weeks, Myra Haq withdraws $100 or so from Earnin, an app that lets people borrow small sums of money. “I started using Earnin when I was a minimum wage intern so I could pay for [things
Amazon
8,000 Amazon employees asked the company to do more on climate change. Shareholders just said no.
Vox - Emily Stewart, Alexia Fernández Campbell
Amazon shareholders just voted down a proposal backed by more than 7,500 Amazon employees asking Jeff Bezos to create a comprehensive climate-change plan for the company. But just because the proposal
Tech Industry
America’s newest stock exchange wants to fix one of capitalism’s fundamental challenges
Vox - Theodore Schleifer
What if the problem with capitalism wasn’t income inequality or an education gap but the stock market itself? And what if that problem couldn’t be fixed by a wealth tax, billionaire philanthropy, or other
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Recode Daily: Crowdpac was a Kickstarter for political candidates. Now it’s out of business.
Vox - Theodore Schleifer
A startup that tried to overhaul political fundraising has fallen victim to partisanship. You could think of Crowdpac as a Kickstarter for political candidates, but the venture-backed startup failed to
U.S. Politics
Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas says
Vox - Eric Johnson
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and other billionaires have figured out a pretty sweet deal, Anand Giridharadas says: They make gigantic piles of money, and have tricked politicians and the media
U.S. Politics
Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for 2 weeks
Vox - Emily Stewart
Thirteen bitcoins are standing between the city of Baltimore and many of the services and processes its citizens rely on after hackers seized thousands of government computers at the start of the month.
U.S. Politics
The Kickstarter for politics wanted to change how political fundraising worked. Now it’s dead.
Vox - Theodore Schleifer
In an era when presidential candidates have found more success than ever raising millions of dollars online, a startup that tried to overhaul how political fundraising works through nonpartisanship has
Emotions
Online ads can be targeted based on your emotions
Vox - Kaitlyn Tiffany
In April, the New York Times announced that it had been using machine learning and surveys to predict the different emotions felt by readers of various stories. The newspaper has been collecting this for
HBO
Of course there’s going to be another Game of Thrones-size hit
Vox - Peter Kafka
You, a normal person, are interested in discussing the finale of Game of Thrones. Bless you. But for people who pay attention to the media business, the question isn’t Bran vs. Sansa: It’s, “Will there
U.S. Politics
Facebook’s latest reason it shouldn’t be broken up: Chinese companies will dominate
Vox - Emily Stewart
Facebook’s latest defense against it being broken up: China. If the argument seems well timed, it’s because it is. Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg in an interview with CNBC on Friday back
Tech Industry
Recode Daily: The US government’s battle with Huawei, explained
Vox - Shirin Ghaffary
Chinese tech giant Huawei has been all over the news lately. The company — which is the second biggest smartphone seller in the world (ahead of Apple and second only to Samsung) — has been the target new
Tech Industry
Recode Daily: The US government’s battle with Huawei, explained
Vox - Shirin Ghaffary
Chinese tech giant Huawei has been all over the news lately. The company — which is the second biggest smartphone seller in the world (ahead of Apple and second only to Samsung) — has been the target new
Tech Industry
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse explains why big banks should get into cryptocurrencies
Vox - Eric Johnson
Terms like “bitcoin” and “cryptocurrency” used to be linked with techno-anarchists who wanted an anonymous way to sell drugs and weapons on the internet, via online marketplaces like the Silk Road. So
U.S. Politics
President Trump’s new immigration proposal would be terrible for tech
Vox - Rani Molla
President Donald Trump’s “merit-based” immigration proposal is never going to happen. But what it does do is try and cover up the fact that his administration has systematically thwarted high-skilled and
U.S. Politics
The White House’s social media bias tool is a ploy to get your email
Vox - Emily Stewart
President Donald Trump’s war on supposed social media bias is about a lot of things — riling up conservatives, creating a bogeyman, his confusion over Twitter followers. But in its latest iteration, it’s
Huawei
The US government’s ongoing battle with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, explained
Vox - Emily Stewart
The Trump administration has recently taken some major shots at the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, prompting a number of American tech firms to start cutting ties with the firm. But US officials
Recode
Recode Daily: Facebook struggles to hire top talent
Vox - Shirin Ghaffary
Former Facebook recruiters say the company has struggled to hire top talent in recent years. More than a half-dozen ex-recruiters told CNBC the company has seen its job offer acceptance rates dip after
UberEATS
Uber Eats is facing a price war — just like Uber
Vox - Rani Molla
As Uber’s stock has fallen below its offering price since it went public last week, some have touted Uber Eats’ rapidly growing revenue as a hopeful sign for the company, which expects to lose about $1
Tech Industry
Self-driving cars have to be safer than regular cars. The question is how much.
Vox - Emily Stewart
One of the biggest questions surrounding self-driving cars isn’t a technological one, but instead philosophical: How safe is safe enough? Ever since the 2004 challenge that kicked off the autonomous vehicle
Tech Industry
How Amazon turned its darkest time into runaway riches
Vox - Eric Johnson
In October 2001, Amazon was in trouble. The first dot-com bubble had popped a year earlier, and Amazon’s stock price was languishing in the single digits, less than half of where it was trading a year
Donald Trump
Positive feedback from Twitter is reportedly all Trump needs to push policies
Vox - Catherine Kim
For avid Twitter user President Donald Trump, social media is more than just a means of communication. It is also a guide to policy. That’s the main takeaway from Andrew Restuccia, Daniel Lippman, and
Huawei
Trump’s executive order may be aimed at Huawei, but its impact could be far wider
Vox - Shirin Ghaffary
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday barring US companies from using information and communication technology made or controlled by firms that pose a national security risk, and
Quora
Yes, Quora still exists, and it’s now worth $2 billion
Vox - Theodore Schleifer
You wouldn’t be blamed if you had forgotten about Quora, the question-and-answer machine that comes up immediately when Googling for, say, why rich people are so frugal or whether it’s okay to let your

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A fake viral video makes Nancy Pelosi look drunk. Facebook won’t take it down.

The controversy over WeWork’s $47 billion valuation and impending IPO, explained

Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says social media will get better ... eventually

Don’t break up Facebook — replace Mark Zuckerberg, says former security boss Alex Stamos

Facebook has taken down billions of fake accounts, but the problem is still getting worse

Meet the man with an impossible job: cleaning up YouTube

Amazon employees ask their company to address climate change

How a Silicon Valley startup is trying to rebrand payday loans

8,000 Amazon employees asked the company to do more on climate change. Shareholders just said no.

America’s newest stock exchange wants to fix one of capitalism’s fundamental challenges

Recode Daily: Crowdpac was a Kickstarter for political candidates. Now it’s out of business.

Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas says

Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for 2 weeks

The Kickstarter for politics wanted to change how political fundraising worked. Now it’s dead.

Online ads can be targeted based on your emotions

Of course there’s going to be another Game of Thrones-size hit

Facebook’s latest reason it shouldn’t be broken up: Chinese companies will dominate

Recode Daily: The US government’s battle with Huawei, explained

Recode Daily: The US government’s battle with Huawei, explained

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse explains why big banks should get into cryptocurrencies

President Trump’s new immigration proposal would be terrible for tech

The White House’s social media bias tool is a ploy to get your email

The US government’s ongoing battle with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, explained

Recode Daily: Facebook struggles to hire top talent

Uber Eats is facing a price war — just like Uber

Self-driving cars have to be safer than regular cars. The question is how much.

How Amazon turned its darkest time into runaway riches

Positive feedback from Twitter is reportedly all Trump needs to push policies

Trump’s executive order may be aimed at Huawei, but its impact could be far wider

Yes, Quora still exists, and it’s now worth $2 billion