The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

There are at least three big audio bets that Facebook will lay down in the next three to six months, Zuckerberg said: “Soundbites” are a new format for creative, short-form audio that will appear across the company’s suite of products. In the meantime, though, here are five big things that stood out to me from my conversation with Zuckerberg.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Twitter applied some warning labels, and Snapchat removed him from promotion in the Discover tab. A day later, both Facebook and Twitter removed an organic post from Trump’s account. In this case, the video was a deceptively edited piece taken from CNN, and it was removed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Over the course of less than a day, the company lost its CEO and gained a surprising new suitor. The breakout social app could be within days of making a deal to sell itself to an American company — but the turmoil surrounding the sale threatens to leave the company permanently damaged. First, the CEO. One global company based in America?

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Sure, individual ads regularly proved to be controversial, from the nuclear provocations of Lyndon B. But buy an ad on a social network and its reach is potentially infinite — and it can acquire massive scale in an incredibly short period of time. And so starting soon, you’ll be able to remove political ads from your Facebook feed.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

On any other day, the memo that Kevin Mayer published Wednesday might have been the talk of the tech world. TikTok’s new CEO, who was thrust into a crisis over the future of the Chinese-owned app from the moment he took the job, has quickly emerged as the company’s top diplomat. We return August 17th.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Worse from ByteDance’s perspective is that Navarro said the United States will not back down even if TikTok is sold to an American buyer. As recently as April, Zoom was caught rerouting external video calls through China , a behavior far more serious than anything we’ve seen from TikTok.

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