- While social media platforms did not create QAnon, they helped it go mainstream via recommendations systems designed to prioritize engagement (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)
- To secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, the US needs to reindustrialize and develop a skilled and innovative workforce (Jacob Helberg/Foreign Policy)
- A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, formed by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube in 2017, whose database helps fight misinformation (Chloe Hadavas/Slate)
- Interview with India's Nikhil Pahwa, the founding editor of MediaNama who pushed against Facebook's Free Basics, on heavy-handed state control of the internet (Will Oremus/OneZero )
- Google removed ~200 links of a German princess' drunken rampage from its search results suggesting the rich and powerful have a superior "right to be forgotten" (Jordan Wildon/VICE)
- Interview with Facebook AI's Mike Schroepfer, Yann LeCun, and Jerome Pesenti discussing their efforts to use computer vision to combat toxic content on Facebook (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
- Interviews with 20+ founders and investors provide an inside look at Y Combinator's virtual W20 Demo Day, which saw some companies lower their target valuations (Biz Carson/Protocol)
- Most of Epic's complaints against Apple and Google apply to console makers, which Epic conveniently ignores; most gamers likely play Fortnite on consoles (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
- Sources at publications partnering with Apple News+ say Apple did not tell them about changes that force News+ users into its app instead of to publisher sites (Digiday)
- Epic's Tim Sweeney says fight with Apple is about "the basic freedoms of all consumers and developers" to install and distribute apps as they choose (Nick Statt/The Verge)
- Roper Technologies to buy Vertafore, a software vendor for the property and casualty insurance industry, for $5.35B from Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners (Andrew G. Simpson/Insurance Journal)
- In a new Instagram update, Facebook has started replacing the Instagram DM icon with Messenger's logo, although cross-messaging is still not functional (Kim Lyons/The Verge)
- Report: Amazon's robotics VP Brad Porter quits the company; Porter defended Amazon after former VP Tim Bray criticized its decision to fire activist employees (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
- Oracle and Salesforce are facing class action lawsuits, potentially worth €10B+, in the UK and the Netherlands over using cookie data without consumers' consent (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- Trump issues executive order forcing ByteDance to sell or spin off its US TikTok business within 90 days (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
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