As a boycott from major advertisers heats up, Facebook announces it will finally start taking action against hate and harmful posts. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss The Social Network’s latest moves, along with the other tech news of recent days, like Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference announcements and product updates from Google. J.D. also spins up a (Hopefully) Helpful Hint about searching newspaper archives for mention of your ancestors back in their day. PTJ 340 is right here ready to go!
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- “The Letter For the King” (Netflix)
- “Titans,” Season Two (DC Universe)
- #StopHateForProfit
- Verizon pulling advertising from Facebook and Instagram (CNBC)
- In Reversal, Facebook To Label Politicians’ Harmful Posts As Ad Boycott Grows (NPR)
- Starbucks latest company to pause ads across social media platforms (CNBC)
- How Facebook wrote its rules to accommodate Trump (The Washington Post)
- Zuckerberg: Facebook will prohibit hate speech in its ads (CNBC)
- Exclusive: Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organizers say (Reuters)
- Facebook Looks to Contain Advertising Boycott Over Hate Speech (The Wall Street Journal)
- All the Companies Quitting Facebook (The New York Times)
- Parler CEO wants liberal to join the pro-Trump crowd on the app (CNBC)
- Widespread allegations of harassment & abuse reported in gaming, comics (Polygon)
- Virtual Conferences Mean All-Access—Except When They Don’t (WIRED)
- Here’s everything Apple announced in the WWDC 2020 keynote today (TechCrunch)
- Here’s what’s happening to Boot Camp amid the Apple silicon transition (Ars Technica)
- Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box (9to5Mac)
- TikTok and 53 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data (Ars Technica)
- New iOS 14 feature prompts TikTok to end clipboard snooping (Appleinsider)
- A new licensing program to support the news industry (Google blog)
- YouTube tests feature to upload, merge 15-second clips (9to5Google)
- A redesigned Google Photos, built for your life’s memories (Google blog)
- Fortnite Movie Nite: Christopher Nolan’s hit films screen in-game (BBC)
- Movie Nite @ Party Royale’s Big Screen Features Inception, Batman Begins Or The Prestige (Epic Games)
- Watching Movies in ‘Fortnite’ Is More Fun Than a Theater (VICE)
- Bigscreen
- BBC Together
- Netflix Party
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint / Productive Use of Stay-at-Home Time
- How to Dig Up Family History Online (The New York Times)