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The Markup announces The Citizen Browser Project, an initiative with The NYT to analyze how the algorithms of Facebook and YouTube serve content to users (The Markup)

The Markup: The Markup announces The Citizen Browser Project, an initiative with The NYT to analyze how the algorithms of Facebook and YouTube serve content to users  —  The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society … The Markup announces The Citizen Browser Project, an

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Process mining company Celonis has acquired Czech startup Integromat to help bolster its automation services; Celonis CEO says the deal is worth more than $100M (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Process mining company Celonis has acquired Czech startup Integromat to help bolster its automation services; Celonis CEO says the deal is worth more than $100M  —  Celonis began as a company to help customers understand how work flowed through your company by building a process map. Process mining company Celonis has

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Nick Clegg says 2.2M ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120K posts withdrawn for attempting to "obstruct voting" in the US elections (Agence France-Presse)

Agence France-Presse: Nick Clegg says 2.2M ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120K posts withdrawn for attempting to “obstruct voting” in the US elections  —  A total of 2.2m ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120,000 posts withdrawn for attempting to “obstruct voting” … Nick Clegg says 2.2M ads

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Facebook VP says the platform rejected more than 2 million ads for trying to obstruct voting

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook vice president for global affairs Nick Clegg said the company has rejected 2.2 million ads across Facebook and Instagram because the ads were trying to “obstruct voting” in the upcoming US presidential election, Agence France-Presse reported. The social media giant also has withdrawn 120,000 posts and placed

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China passes a new export control law, in effect from Dec. 1, that will let it take reciprocal measures if any country or regions abuse their export controls (Colum Murphy/Bloomberg)

Colum Murphy / Bloomberg: China passes a new export control law, in effect from Dec. 1, that will let it take reciprocal measures if any country or regions abuse their export controls  —  China passed a new law to restrict sensitive exports to protect national security, helping Beijing gain reciprocity against U.S. as tech tensions

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