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Wed. 08/18 – WhatsApp Shuts Down Taliban “Helpline”
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A look at how all the platforms are dealing with the Taliban being a modern social media enterprise. Amazon is bigger than Walmart for the first time. Samsung stops cluttering its phones with ads. Attempting to hire the hacker who hacked you. And I get my answer to why all the platforms want to protect kids all the sudden.
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WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul (Financial Times)
Platforms struggle with Taliban policy amid chaotic US withdrawal (The Verge)
People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart (NYTimes)
Samsung confirms it’s removing ads from its stock apps later this year (The Verge)
Victim of Major DeFi Cyberattack Offers Its Hacker a Job (Bloomberg)
TechScape: How the UK forced global shift in child safety policies (The Guardian)
Eve Online’s yearlong war ends with an epic retreat (Polygon)