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European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday.
- $4. Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (Democrat) was incredibly critical of Facebook's track record and its ability to competently play a role in the global financial system, quipping: "Like a toddler whose gotten its hands on a book of matches, Facebook has burned the house down over and over and called every arson a learning experience."
- $4 Thiel is a prominent supporter of Trump, and in a tweet Tuesday the president called Thiel a "brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone."
- $4 Lonsdale repeated his cofounder Peter Thiel's accusations that China had infiltrated the firm, but did not provide any evidence.
- $4. The announcement comes two days after tech billionaire $4 Google had been "seemingly treasonous" for its decision to work with China's military and not the US military.
- $4. Kennedy laid into Facebook's values, suggesting that the social media platform was undermining effective journalism.
- $4. The investigation will likely focus on how Amazon uses data from third-party sellers.
- $4. Switzerland's privacy authority reportedly said that neither Facebook nor anybody else from the Libra Association ever actually got in touch.
- Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president of worldwide operations, defended the company against critics in a 700-word op-ed published Tuesday on CNN's website>$4. He said anti-Amazon protesters are making "noise" about benefits the company already offers.
- $4. According to Vice, the women agreed to do the videos on the basis that the videos would be shared with a limited audience, rather than distributed to sites like PornHub.
- $4. She warned in a blog of the company's power and said Google wasn't a place she could continue her work around AI and ethics.
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