After a week off to deal with life during the week of the U.S. elections, El Kaiser and J.D. return to discuss the aftermath of the event and how Facebook and Google have been getting heat over it. Also in the news: Snapchat brings back the concept of camera-integrated glasses, there’s a new app for scanning old photos and Apple has made it easier to make those end-of-year charitable donations. Oh, and Twitter is making more of an effort to deal with abuse and harassment. All this AND MORE on this week’s episode of Pop Tech Jam — roll 212!
Links to This Week’s News Stories
- Freedom on the Net 2016 (Freedom House)
- Facebook, in cross hairs after election, is said to question its influence (The New York Times)
- Facebook’s fight against fake news was undercut by fear of conservative backlash (Gizmodo)
- Mark Zuckerberg statement
- Mark Zuckerberg is in denial (The New York Times Op-Ed)
- Renegade Facebook employees form task force to battle fake news (BuzzFeed)
- Google will ban websites that host fake news from using its ad service (The New York Times)
- Introducing the new Google Play Music (Google blog)
- Now your photos look better than ever – even those dusty old prints (Google Keyword blog)
- Google PhotoScan app (Google)
- Apple considers wearables expansion with digital glasses (Bloomberg)
- My insane adventure to buy Snap’s new spectacles (Wired)
- Snapchat Spectacles
- Microsoft will bring Visual Studio to the Mac in November (WindowsCentral)
- Secret backdoor in some U.S. phones sent data to China, analysts say (The New York Times)
- A touch of giving with Apple Pay (Apple Newsroom)
- “Thank You Friends” by Big Star