U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, along with government ministers from the U.K. and Australia, have asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to halt the company’s plan to fully encrypt its messaging services. An open letter to Zuckerberg first obtained by BuzzFeed News asks Facebook to not proceed with the plan without “a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our...
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After eight years at the company, Snap’s senior vice president of content and partnerships, Ben Schwerin, is departing to join Coatue Management as a general partner, my colleague Kate reported. Schwerin helped lead Snap’s Spotlight, the app’s TikTok clone launched at the end of 2020. His replacement will face the task of maintaining Spotlight’s growth as other rivals, such as Instagram’s...
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