Fri. 08/23 - Are "Partners" Looking To Exit Libra?

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🗓️ 23 August 2019

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YouTube shuts down channels over Hong Kong content, some of Facebook’s Libra partners are having second thoughts, the WSJ finds some shady items on Amazon, the reviews of the Galaxy Note10+ are in, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: BRD's Top 10 Crypto Memes PixelUnion.net Links: Google shutters more than 200 YouTube channels amid Hong Kong protests (CNBC) Facebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project (Financial Times) Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products (WSJ) SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 10 PLUS REVIEW: SHOULD YOU SPEND FOR THE STYLUS? (The Verge) The Galaxy Note 10+ Is Damn Near Perfect (Gizmodo) REVIEW: SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE10+ (Wired) Weekend Longreads: Top 10 Crypto Memes (BRD) All 84 startups from Y Combinator's S19 Demo Day 1 (TechCrunch) Here are the 82 startups from day 2 of Y Combinator's S19 Demo Days (TechCrunch) The Exclusive Inside Story Of The Fall Of Overstock’s Mad King, Patrick Byrne (Forbes) The Sports News Site Haters Love to Dunk on Keeps Signing Up Subscribers (Bloomberg Businessweek) The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront (Washington Post) YOU ARE ALREADY HAVING SEX WITH ROBOTS (Wired) Sad cartoons and melancholic hip-hop inspired YouTube’s new vaporwave scene (Polygon) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, August 23rd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	YouTube shuts down channels over Hong Kong content.
0:13.2	Some of Facebook's Lieber partners are having second thoughts.
0:16.6	The Wall Street Journal finds some shady items on Amazon.
0:19.9	The reviews of the Galaxy Note 10 Plus are in and the weekend long rates suggestions
0:25.9	are in.
0:26.9	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Google says it is shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found that the channels
0:38.1	were tied to misinformation campaigns related to the protests in Hong Kong.
0:44.0	Earlier this week, as part of our ongoing efforts to combat
0:47.2	coordinated influence operations, we disabled
0:49.6	210 channels on YouTube when we discovered channels
0:52.1	in this network behaved in a coordinated
0:53.8	manner while uploading videos related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.
0:58.3	Shane Huntley, Director of Software Engineering for Google Security's Threat Analysis Group group said in a blog post.
1:04.4	We found use of VPNs and other methods to disguise the origin of these accounts
1:09.4	and other activity commonly associated with coordinated influence operations."
1:14.0	End quote.
1:15.0	C. M. C. notes, and I'm going to just quote here, Google stopped short of explicitly
1:21.8	blaming the Chinese government for the misleading accounts, end quote.
1:26.0	Sources are telling the Financial Times that at least three of Facebook's erstwhile Libra partners
1:36.1	are discussing how to distance themselves from the cryptocurrency project amid increasing
1:42.0	regulatory scrutiny.
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