🧐 Facebook tried to make Its platform a healthier place. It got angrier instead
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Facebook tried to make Its platform a healthier place. It got angrier instead. In the fall of 2018, Jonah Peretti, chief executive of online publisher BuzzFeed, emailed a top official at Facebook Inc. The most divisive content that publishers produced was going viral on the platform, he said, creating an incentive to produce more of it. (Keach Hagey via Wall Street Journal)
AbleGamers Just got a big win for the disabled gaming community. When Brandon Amico entered his new 14-year-old stepson Thad's life, they created a lasting connection from playing video games together like Halo or Smash Brothers. (Williesha Morris via WIRED)
Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless. Microsoft now lets you remove passwords from Microsoft accounts to embrace a passwordless future. Starting today, the software giant will let consumers sign into Microsoft accounts with its Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or an SMS / email verification code instead of a password. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces. That brand's trusted legacy of “cool” could make Facebook's glasses appeal to many more people than Snap Spectacles and other camera glasses. (Facebook also has roughly 2 billion more users than Snapchat.) (S.A. Applin via MIT Technology Review)
OpenSea product chief accused of flipping NFTs using insider information. OpenSea, the biggest NFT trading marketplace, said today that one of its employees used internal information to buy NFTs that were about to be featured on its homepage — and likely spike in value. (Andrew Wang via The Verge)
New York Renters Face 70% Increases as Pandemic Discounts Expire. The era of Covid concessions for apartment hunters is over. The pandemic-era rental market in Manhattan gave people the chance of a lifetime to move into the apartment of their dreams. (Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou via Bloomberg)
Skello raises $47.3 million for its employee scheduling tool. French startup Skello has raised a $47.3 million funding round (€40 million). The company has been working on a software-as-a-service tool that lets you manage the work schedule of your company. (Romain Dillet via TechCrunch)
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