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| | | | | Tuesday, October 22, 2019 ⢠By Anthony Ha |
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Happy Tuesday Facebook announces new steps to protect election integrity, Elon Musk uses SpaceX satellites to tweet and Roku makes an adtech acquisition. Here’s your Daily Crunch for October 22, 2019. |
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| Facebook made a slew of announcements designed to stop 2020 election interference â including the takedown of some foreign influence campaigns, the labeling of some state-owned or state-controlled media organizations and a new feature called Facebook Protect, which adds extra security. However, during a press call about these changes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hammered with questions about Facebookâs continued unwillingness to fact check political ads. Read more |
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| SpaceX CEO Elon Musk used an internet connection provided by his companyâs Starlink constellation of broadband satellites early on Tuesday to send a simple tweet. Read more |
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| Roku is beefing up its advertising business with the acquisition of Boston-based dataxu, a demand-side platform that will allow marketers to plan, buy and optimize their video ad campaigns that run on Rokuâs devices and services. Read more |
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| The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has put an end to the deceptive marketing tactics of Devumi, a company that sold fake indicators of social media influence. Read more |
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| Location-based virtual reality startup Sandbox VR announced a huge $68 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz at the beginning of the year. Now it’s bringing on some new investors â including Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom and Will Smith â in an $11 million âstrategicâ round. Read more |
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| According to Mediumâs Emma Smith, reading time is âa closer measure of quality and resonance with readers.â She also said Medium has now paid out more than $6 million total to 30,000 writers. Read more |
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| We sat down with three experts on the Extra Crunch stage at Disrupt SF to help startups and founders understand security â what they need to do, when and why. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more |
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