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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Seattle-based Lighthouse eDiscovery hired Eric Emans as CFO. GeekWire is a dot.LA

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

GeekWire

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. Amazon Photo). million seed round. Nick Nelson.

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

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Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. Curran was most recently VP of finance and chief financial officer for Amazon’s international consumer division. A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

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Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. You find clues.

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

The Verge

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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