🙈 Inside TikTok's Attempts to 'Downplay the China Association'

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Inside TikTok's Attempts to 'Downplay the China Association'. Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal how the company games out responses to tricky questions — and highlight what the company thinks its biggest public perception problems are. Chief among them: China. The PR documents, which Gizmodo… (Chris Stokel-Walker / Gizmodo)

Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel

SCOOP: I got hold of internal documents advising TikTok staff how to respond to press or creator questions. Three of the first four lines in the Master Messaging document? "Downplay ByteDance, downplay China, downplay AI." By me for @Gizmodo

gizmodo.comInside TikTok’s Attempts to ‘Downplay the China Association’Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media—and what it doesn’t.

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Adam Mosseri confirms it: Instagram is over. You know, I didn't want to join Instagram, but I had adopted a kitten with an internet following, and the following wanted to know how the kitten was doing. For a while, I dutifully updated once a week. But then Instagram started to change. Two big… (Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge)

Elizabeth Lopatto @mslopatto

wrote about my struggle (posting cat photos online) theverge.com/2022/7/26/2327…

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JusTalk spilled millions of user messages and locations for months. Popular messaging app JusTalk left a huge database of unencrypted private messages publicly exposed to the internet without a password for months. The messaging app has around 20 million… (Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker

New: JusTalk left a huge database packed with millions of users' conversations and users' granular locations on a server since at least January 2022. All of the data was in plaintext, despite JusTalk's claims that it uses end-to-end encryption.

techcrunch.comJusTalk spilled millions of user messages and locations for months – TechCrunchThe messaging app left a huge database of unencrypted private messages online but without a password for months.

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'Operating With Increased Intensity': Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of the company formerly known as Facebook, called his top lieutenants for the social network to a last-minute meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area this month. On the agenda: a… (Mike Isaac / The New York Times)

rat king @MikeIsaac

Mark Zuckerberg isn't messing around, again shape up or ship out, metamates!

nytimes.com‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next PhaseFacebook’s founder is setting a relentless pace as he pushes his company through a tech transformation during a global economic slowdown.

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Google Maps is rolling out location sharing notifications and immersive view for landmarks. Google Maps is introducing three features today in different categories including an aerial view of 100 landmarks, detailed cycling routes, and improved location sharing with notifications for the arrival and departure of your friends. The company… (Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Google Maps is rolling out location sharing notifications and immersive view for landmarks tcrn.ch/3Jb7DyF by @IndianIdle

tcrn.chGoogle Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation – TechCrunchGoogle — facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things — wants to be the first place people go for discovery and planning pastimes. In aid of that, today the company announced three new features for its star navig…

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