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The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman. It took months for the owners to get it back.

The takeover of Vets for Trump underscores how money, politics and online misinformation remain deeply and often invisibly entangled ahead of the 2020 presidential election, despite years of promises by government officials and technology companies to combat such problems. The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman. It took months

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    Makena Kelly / The Verge: Facebook shares more on its upcoming Oversight Board for content decisions and how members are picked, says decisions will be binding even if Facebook disagrees  —  ‘The board’s decision will be binding, even if I or anyone at Facebook disagrees with it,’ says Zuckerberg Facebook shares more on its upcoming

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    Facebook unveils charter for its ‘Supreme Court,’ where users can go to contest the company’s decisions

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    • France says it has received €5B from institutional investors to invest in tech startups over the next three years, as it seeks to grow more unicorns (Harriet Agnew/Financial Times)

    Harriet Agnew / Financial Times: France says it has received €5B from institutional investors to invest in tech startups over the next three years, as it seeks to grow more unicorns  —  President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday that France has drummed up €5bn of capital from institutional investors to pour … France says it

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    • Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to help make "Orion" AR smart glasses designed to replace smartphones, with 2023-2025 launch timeframe (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

    Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to help make “Orion” AR smart glasses designed to replace smartphones, with 2023-2025 launch timeframe  —  KEY POINTS  — Facebook has partnered with Luxottica to develop augmented-reality Ray-Ban glasses, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC. Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to

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    Facebook says it has updated its definition of "terrorist organizations" and changed its counterterrorism team's structure to curb white supremacist violence (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    {$inline_image} Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Facebook says it has updated its definition of “terrorist organizations” and changed its counterterrorism team’s structure to curb white supremacist violence  —  In a blog post this afternoon, Facebook detailed the progress it’s made in combatting terrorists, violent extremist groups … Facebook says it has updated its definition of "terrorist

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    • Sources: President Trump is visiting Silicon Valley for the first time since 2016 for a fundraiser, but its location is a mystery, even to the donors (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Sources: President Trump is visiting Silicon Valley for the first time since 2016 for a fundraiser, but its location is a mystery, even to the donors  —  Location of president’s fundraiser in the Bay Area is being kept under wraps  —  Three years ago, an uproar among company employees forced … Sources:

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    • Google will start surfacing key moments from videos in search results, highlighting them with direct links to timestamps provided by creators (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google will start surfacing key moments from videos in search results, highlighting them with direct links to timestamps provided by creators  —  Google today announced an update to how it handles videos in search results.  Instead of just listing relevant videos on the search results page … Google will start surfacing

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