RT @benedictevans Facebook analyzing messages for abuse (scams, grooming), even for end-to-end encrypted msgs, by looking at metadata rather than the content (which it can’t read). Expect this to become a bigger part of FB’s defense of encryption.
Cripes indeed! HT @neilperkin A good case-study in why digital UX is important – one badly designed online form leads to a AUS $60 Billion error in the Australian government job retention scheme. Cripes. (HT @tomskitomski)
WeChat Pay, the digital e-wallet owned by Chinese Big Tech Tencent, has announced it will be giving all 600 million of its users a credit rating based on “payments points” which will determine a “trust” value for each of them.
Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition company, claimed it has a First Amendment right to scrape more than 3 billion images from social networks to use for its database.
RT @douglevin Texas Instruments pushes firmware update to **permanently** cripple the functionality of its crazy expensive graphing calculators, infuriating hobbyist community (ostensibly to help prevent cheating on exams, though it won’t really in reality) #edtech
MT @rgay For the coming week I got to partner with @wordbookstores to support the nonprofit of my choice. If you buy my books from them this week they will donate 10% of all sales to the Black Mamas Bailout Fund.
ICYMI President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson will cowrite a second novel together, ‘The President’s Daughter,’ to be published jointly by Alfred A. Knopf and Little, Brown in June 2021.
Discouraging, but not surprising HT @LWShanley -> Scrolling through your Twitter feed, it may not be obvious when you come upon a bot account — something that is more likely to occur in the era of COVID-19. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.
HT @BISG Amazon says 1- & 2-day delivery times should gradually return in coming weeks as they catch up from the coronavirus demand surge. They recently lifted restrictions on amount of inventory suppliers can send to Amazon warehouses.
Facebook Inc is launching Shops, a service that will allow businesses to display and sell products on Facebook. Facebook will be working more closely on product integrations with Shopify and seven other online commerce platforms going forward. Shops will be free for businesses to access with the expectation that it will boost consumer engagement and ad sales.
RT @arstechnica “…making Giphy a Facebook company can give Facebook access to all the data generated by those searches and API calls from other platforms, which is exactly the sort of behavior Facebook is under investigation for right now.”
Or you can buy a $20 ticket and enter a raffle to win a 30-minute 1:1 virtual mentoring session with one of 50 top-notch #WIN2020 female role models. All collected funds will be donated to The Bowery Mission.
RT @diversebooks Applications for our Emergency Fund for Diverse Creatives are still open! The fund will provide financial aid to diverse authors, illustrators, and publishing professionals in #kidlit who have lost income during the pandemic.
RT @ABAbook Last week, @ShelfAwareness and @Sourcebooks launched a new movement to support indie bookstores by partnering on #ReadIndieForward, a campaign to help indies not only survive during the COVID-19 pandemic, but thrive—now and into the future.
MT @_smromero This is a resource aimed at aspiring/emerging pub professionals. The doc contains a TOC, information + relevant links for each entry, as well as a form link to add resources to the doc.
RT @romancewriters A new award for a new era: the RWA Board of Directors is thrilled to announce the introduction of a brand-new award, The Vivian, named after trailblazing RWA founder Vivian Stephens, with a planned fall 2020 launch.
I’m sure you saw the graphic of The New York Times front page. You need to check out this online interactive presentation of it. RT @emilybell The @nytimes online presentation of its stunning front page is a wonderful piece of work too. The scroll has dignity and impact.
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