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Sources: Jack Dorsey has personally weighed in on content decisions at Twitter and overruled staff to keep Alex Jones and reinstate Richard Spencer's account (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison told staff on November 9 that she, SBF, and two FTX executives were aware that FTX lent its customers' money to Alameda (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Elon Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned (Wall Street Journal)
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Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits (Financial Times)
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Sources: Tesla engineers wanted to add eye tracking and other sensors to Autopilot at its debut to help alert drivers but were rejected by Musk over cost fears (@timkhiggins / Wall Street Journal)
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Assembly, a new blockchain under the IOTA network focused on DeFi, NFTs, and crypto game development, raises $100M and plans to launch its token next year (Gertrude Chavez-dreyfuss / Reuters)
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NYU research suggests Twitter's algorithms promote conservative politicians because they are more likely to be "ratioed", which Twitter may count as engagement (Washington Post)
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Twitter to require email or phone number confirmation for new accounts, place a warning sign by suspicious accounts, and is using ML to find problematic ones (@selina_y_wang / Bloomberg)
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YouTube says it has terminated 270+ accounts, taken down 150K+ videos, removed ads from ~2M videos over past week as it purges content that endangers children (Noah Kulwin / VICE News)
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Five years ago today in Techmeme history📜, Shopify priced its IPO at $17/share, raising $131M. It's currently trading at $770/share: techmeme.com/150520/p35#a150…
An in-depth look at how a team of fact-checkers at Alt News in India is struggling against misinformation spread by the ruling BJP party on Facebook services (@soniafaleiro / Rest of World)
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SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public (Washington Post)
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Sources: as part of its antitrust probe, FTC is investigating whether Facebook bought startups like Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize possible competitors (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump's campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence (Wall Street Journal)
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Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a "cash management" program (@julieverhage / Bloomberg)
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