Facebook Announces New Policies for 2020 US Election and Census
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| Facebook Announces New Policies for 2020 US Election and Census | |
| Number | 878 |
| Broadcast Date | JULY 1, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 4:57 |
| Hosts | Rich Stroffolino |
Facebook announces new policies to combat misinformation for the 2020 US election and census, the US Commerce Department to review removing Huawei from the Entity List, and Amazon Air starts service in Anchorage Alaska.
Headlines
- In a blog post, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced new policies to combat misinformation on the platform regarding the 2020 US election and census, coinciding with the publication of Facebook's Civil Right Audit Progress report. Facebook will ban ads that discourage voting, with a new policy and enforcement details promised before the 2019 US Gubenatorial elections. The company also announced it is treating the US census with the same priority as the election, with policies that forbid any Census interference or misinformation on the platform, dedicated training for employees working on census ads and content, and working with external organizations to promote census participation.
- Over the weekend, US President Trump announced the US Department o Commerce will review whether to remove Huawei from the Entity List that bars the company from buying from US suppliers, as part of restarted trade negotiations. The President stated he did not think the ban was fair to US suppliers and would consider resuming sales that didn't impact national security. Talks between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping also committed to no new tariffs, but did not discuss extraditions of Huawei CTO Meng Wanzhou.
- Amazon announced that Amazon Air daily service to Anchorage Alaska will begin this week. The move will help Amazon meet its one-day Prime shipping guarentee, but also provides a base to expand its logistics capabilities into Asia. Currently 79% of all cargo flights between Asia and North America stop in Anchorage, with over 20 daily flights to Shanghai leaving from Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Amazon Air flies out of over 20 US airports, and announced it was expanding its fleet to 70 planes by 2021.
- Nielsen's mid-year music report showed an increase in streaming music of 31.6% over the first half of last year to a record 507.7 billion streams. Though it was a slower growth rate than previous years. Nielsen attributes the success to singles from Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Khalid, BTS, Lil Nas X, and Bad Bunny, among other factors.But the report also noted the impact of TikTok and its 500 million worldwide monthly users. TikTok made Lil Nas X's Old Town Road the most consumed on-demand song of the year so far, with 1.3 billion streams. Nielsen also notes video streams of music are growing faster up 39.6% vs. audio which was up 27.8%. Physical album sales, digital album and track sales and even vinyl sales all decreased.
- reCaptcha's latest version, which Google launched last fall, and is invisible to users, is now used on more than 650,000 websites. Google now analyzes the way users navigate a site and assigns them a risk score based on how malicious their behavior might be. So if a user with a high risk score logs into a site, reCaptcha can prompt a two-factor authentication check. But according to Mohamed Akrout, a computer science PhD student at the University of Toronto, reCaptcha simulations that ran on a browser with a connected Google account received lower risk scores than browsers without a connected Google account or ones using Tor or a VPN. That has led some critics of reCaptcha to point out that privacy suffers as a result of the tool working effectively.
- Samsung launched a dedicated app store where third-parties can offer their own Bixby-compatible services called Bixby Marketplace in the US and South Korea. Bixby Marketplace will be available on the Bixby page on Samsung phones, with plans to eventually include it in the main Galaxy app store. User can either browse for third-party services, called capsules, or be prompted to install one through voice. At launch, transactional capsules will be supported, allowing payment to process through Bixby, with plans to launch subscription support at a later date.
- Business Insider reports that several publishers on Apple News+ have been unimpressed by initial revenue from the service. One source said actual revenue has by 1/20th of what was proposed by Apple, and another said it was similar to what they had been getting from Texture prior to being acquired by Apple. Apple reportedly acknowledged that there is user confusion over free and paid articles. Some publishers reportedly dislike the use of the magazine format for News content.
- Google published the developer site for its Fuchsia OS at Fuchsia.dev. The site aggregates all current documentation from source code on GitHub and information on the Zircon microkernel, with the ability to be installed as a Progressive Web App on mobile. Fuchsia OS was originall published on GitHub in 2016, and uses a non-Linux based microkernel originally developed for embedded devices.
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