Amazon games, digital campaigns and Twitter hacks

Good morning! This Sunday, your five-minute guide to the best of Protocol (and the internet) from the week that was, from new visions for social networks and game-streaming to indoor security drones.
Also, watch out this week for our new manual about how technology is helping small businesses to cope with the strain of the pandemic. The first stories will be published tomorrow, and more will come out every day this week.
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I'm moving! My wife, Anna, and I are heading across the country from our old Bay Area home to our new spot in Alexandria, Virginia. I'm writing this from a hotel in Salt Lake City, and by the time you read it we'll be in Denver or Kansas City or stranded on the side of a highway somewhere. All of which is to say I'm off next week, and Source Code will be in Shakeel Hashim's extremely capable hands. Have a great week, send me road-trip tips and I'll see you next Monday.
Now onto the good stuff.
Telepath is a new, kinder social network. But is the internet ready to be nice?, By Biz Carson
Luna, Amazon's bet on game streaming, is all about channel subscriptions, by Janko Roettgers
Pandemic waivers made it easier to get treatment for opioid addiction. That could all go away next month, by Issie Lapowsky
Twitter chief design officer Dantley Davis on building the most diverse team in tech, by Janko Roettgers
What Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court would mean for the future of tech, by Emily Birnbaum
Introducing QuickBooks Commerce, a new way for small businesses to grow
Small businesses need to attract and sell to new customers, but many worry about adding operational complexity – especially right now. QuickBooks Commerce is a new platform to manage multiple online and in-store sales channels and better maintain inventory while getting profitability insights – all from one central hub.
Inside the Biden campaign's surprising influencer strategy — Recode
How Twitter survived its biggest hack — and plans to stop the next one — Wired
Mark in the middle — The Verge
Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus on the rise of Silicon Valley SPACs — Axios
Magic Leap tried to create an alternate reality. Its founder was already in one. — Bloomberg
After that huge Twitter hack in July, the company had to scramble to figure out what happened next and how Twitter could protect both its users and its employees better going forward. This is a perhaps uniquely high-stakes moment to try, too, with an election looming and a pandemic raging. The world's not getting less complicated, the internet's not getting friendlier; Twitter needed a plan.
Coming up with that plan largely fell to Damien Kieran, Twitter's data protection officer. His job is to figure out how Twitter collects data, how it's used, who can access it and what the tradeoffs are across all those options. His thinking, and Twitter's plans, are the conversation in this week's Source Code Podcast. And, as always, he provided us with a few of the things he's into right now.
Introducing QuickBooks Commerce, a new way for small businesses to grow
Small businesses need to attract and sell to new customers, but many worry about adding operational complexity – especially right now. QuickBooks Commerce is a new platform to manage multiple online and in-store sales channels and better maintain inventory while getting profitability insights – all from one central hub.
Today's Source Code was written by David Pierce. Thoughts, questions, tips? Send them to david@protocol.com, or our tips line, tips@protocol.com. Enjoy your day, see you tomorrow.
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