Thu. 10/31 - Twitter Takes A Stand (And Subtweets Facebook)

Twitter says it will ban ALL political advertising, Cognizant says it is getting out of the content moderation business, Facebook earnings are good, Apple earnings are good… and evolving, and can the Chinese monitor SMS messages at the provider level, at scale?

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Links:

• Jack Dorsey's Twitter Thread
• Zuckerberg defends politician ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue (TechCrunch)
• Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg (NYTimes)
• Facebook shares rise on strong Q3, users up 2% to 2.45B (TechCrunch)
• A Facebook content moderation vendor is quitting the business after two Verge investigations (The Verge)
• Apple is laying the groundwork for an iPhone subscription (CNBC)
• Researchers unearth malware that siphoned SMS texts out of telco’s network (ArsTechnica)
• Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery (OneZero)