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Facebook goes after the superspreaders

Good morning! This Thursday, Facebook is limiting the spread of all posts from individual superspreaders, Amazon bought all the Bond films for more than $8 billion, the creator of Google's Duo left the company for Clubhouse, and GameStop is (obviously) getting into NFTs.
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Facebook announced Wednesday that it will now limit the spread of all posts from individual Facebook users who repeatedly share content that's been debunked by fact-checkers.
That's right, all posts from those superspreaders will be suppressed. Yes,even the cat pictures. Facebook already limits the reach of individual posts that contain misinformation and levies various punishments on Pages and Groups that are havens for misinformation. But it hasn't so far cracked down on individual Facebook users.
Targeting these repeat offenders is key to Facebook limiting misinformation. Burying a single piece of misinformation does little to prevent the same thing from happening again in the future. Burying all posts from a problematic user might.
These policies are contingent on Facebook's fact-checkers actually debunking users' posts, which is, after all, a manual and sometimes spotty process.
There are still lots of unanswered questions from Facebook about how this crackdown on individual accounts will work in practice. It's unclear, for instance, how many times a user has to share misinformation in order to have their account demoted. A Facebook spokesperson said the company's not sharing these details due to "very real concerns about gaming the system."
A recent survey found that Slack users save an average of 90 minutes a day and forge better connections using Slack instead of email. However, email has been the default communication tool at work for nearly 50 years. It's time for a change.
Sen. Chuck Schumer urged his colleagues to pass the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act ASAP:
The tech industry needs to be more proactive about AI, and everything else, Satya Nadella said:
Subscription real estate might be the next big thing, Airbnb's Brian Chesky said:
On Protocol: Amazon bought MGM for $8.45 billion. It seems to be less a play to kill Netflix and more just a reason to keep people inside of Amazon's ecosystem for as long as possible. Oh, and it's a big bet on Amazon's ad business. And no surprise here: Lawmakers aren't thrilled by this merger. But it'll be fascinating to see how Amazon operates MGM's theatrical business and linear cable deals (and the Epix channel), and tries to bring one of Hollywood's oldest studios fully into the streaming era.
Speaking of Amazon, Jeff Bezos's final day as CEO will be July 5. That's when Andy Jassy will take the reins, and also happens to be the 27th anniversary of Amazon's incorporation.
Neha Parikh is the new CEO of Waze, replacing Noam Bardin after Bardin stepped down last November. She joins from Hotwire.
Apple is hiring someoneto "lead the partnership program with key players in the Alternative Payments ecosystem," and wants someone with experience in crypto, payments and digital wallets.
Justin Uberti is joining Clubhouse. He was at Google for 15 years, created Duo, and will work on "interactive audio infrastructure" in his new role.
Nobody knows exactly what the future of work looks like. We can all agree on that, right? But as surely as we know anything, we know this: The future is hybrid. A work life that's part remote and part in the office is hard and messy and happens to be exactly what employees want. In fact, 83% of employees want that, per The Wall Street Journal. And to many of those employees, anything else is a deal breaker.
That WSJ story is worth a read, both because it makes clear how complicated hybrid work is, and how big a boost it will give companies who get it right.
Speaking of which, we haven't asked in a while: Where do you stand on the remote/hybrid/in-office future? Has your mind changed in the last few months? Reply and let us know, we'd love to hear from you.
A recent survey found that Slack users save an average of 90 minutes a day and forge better connections using Slack instead of email. However, email has been the default communication tool at work for nearly 50 years. It's time for a change.
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