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White House asks tech leaders for help with coronavirus response

On Wednesday, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios convened representatives from a number of the tech’s biggest companies to gameplan a response to the worsening global coronavirus pan

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Facebook’s board is its most gender-balanced yet with two new additions

On Monday, Facebook announced the addition of two new names to its board of directors, Nancy Killefer and Tracey T. Travis.Killefer brings potentially valuable government insight to Facebook, as she

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Elizabeth Warren, big tech’s sworn foe, drops out of 2020 race

After a campaign characterized by early stratospheric highs and devastating recent lows, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren will drop out of the 2020 Democratic race.Warren vaulted to the top of

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Daily Crunch: Coronavirus prompts more conference cancellations

Google cancels its big developer conference, Justin Kan’s legal startup shuts down and Robinhood offers more details about a recent outage. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 4, 2020.1. G

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Silicon Valley saw itself in Pete Buttigieg. Now he’s out of the race.

Tech’s darling is out. On Sunday, the 38-year-old Democratic presidential contender stepped out of the race, clearing a path for moderates to coalesce around another candidate on the eve of Supe

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Facebook backs Indian education startup Unacademy

Unacademy, one of India’s fastest growing education startups, has just received the backing of a major technology giant: Facebook.The social juggernaut has participated in the four-year-old Ind

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Facebook prototypes tabbed News Feed with Most Recent & Seen

Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats. Facebook has internally prototyped a tabbed version of the News Feed for mobile that includ

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Bay Area protest urges Facebook not to run misinformation ads for U.S. politicians

Some advocacy groups in Bay Area rallied on Monday in front of a property owned by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in downtown San Francisco to urge him to stop profiting from misinformation ads for U.

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Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets

It’s suspiciously convenient that Facebook already fulfills most of the regulatory requirements it’s asking governments to lay on the rest of the tech industry. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerber

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Daily Crunch: HQ Trivia is dead

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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Facebook pushes EU for dilute and fuzzy internet content rules

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe this week — attending a security conference in Germany over the weekend where he spoke about the kind of regulation he’d like applied to his

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation challenges donors to address local problems

Over the last decade, Silicon Valley Community Foundation has become one of the favorite destinations for tech philanthropy.Counting Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Reed Hastings among its donors, S

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APD | Trump reaches out to Modi ahead of India visit

By APD writer Rishika ChauhanNew Delhi, Feb.15 (APD) - US President Donald Trump on Saturday commented on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his popularity on Face

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Facebook will pay Reuters to fact-check Deepfakes and more

Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process. Now the publisher will bring that expertise to the fight against misinforma

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The 'Davos of global geopolitical security' ponders 'Westlessness'

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the 2019 Munich Security Conference (Credit: AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) The "Davos of global geopolitical security" starts this week, and the theme is

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Elon Musk tweets out #DeleteFacebook, adding simply, “it’s lame”

Facebook receives plenty of pointed criticism, including for refusing to police political speech on Facebook, its seemingly endless string of privacy breaches, and its apparent coziness of late with t

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Experts: Facebook must stop encryption roll-out to keep children safe

There are fears encryption would damage Facebook's ability to identify and stop grooming behaviour on its platforms.