Facebook, Fearing Public Outcry, Shelved Earlier Report on Popular Posts

Facebook, Fearing Public Outcry, Shelved Earlier Report on Popular Posts

When Facebook released its first quarterly report this week of the most viewed posts in the United States, Guy Rosen, its vice president for integrity, said the social network had taken “a long journey” to be “by far the most transparent platform in the world” on the Internet “The list showed that the posts with … Read more

Instagram will surface more reshared posts amid Palestinian censorship claims

Jon Fingas

Instagram is making changes that could relate to censorship claims. The social network has confirmed to the Financial Times that it is changing its algorithm so that re-released posts in stories are treated as the originals after Palestinians accused the company of censoring content. A Facebook spokesperson told Engadget that there was no intentional censorship … Read more

Amazon Web Services posts record $13.5B in *profits* for 2020 in Andy Jassy’s AWS swan song

Amazon Web Services posts record $13.5B in *profits* for 2020 in Andy Jassy’s AWS swan song

It turned out that Andy Jassy already ran most of Amazon. Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by the future CEO of Amazon, ended 2020 with more than $ 13.5 billion in annual operating profit, accounting for more than 63% of the company’s operating profit accounted for $ 45.3 billion year over year, … Read more