Hacking Humanity

Sonam Rai / Reuters: SEC filing: Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, files for a $300M IPO on Nasdaq and says it had 32.1M MAUs

Anirban Sen / Livemint: Walmart says it has completed its $16B acquisition of Flipkart  —  Flipkart’s existing management team led by CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy will

Politico: Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won’t let that happen”  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday

Adam Segal / Foreign Affairs: How President Xi Jinping plans to turn China into a “cyber-superpower” that will dominate the web through domestic regulations, innovation,

Emily Dreyfuss / Wired: Psychology researchers claim bots might be responsible for uptick in low-quality data in recent surveys they conducted via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk 

Glenn Fleishman / Fortune: Internet infrastructure companies like web hosts, registrars, and CDNs were right to largely remain neutral in Infowars-like debates, civil rights experts

Casey Newton / The Verge: Twitter’s actions to limit third-party apps illustrate the company’s indecisiveness, which sources say stems from Jack Dorsey’s cautious leadership style 

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: Reports: as Google considers return to China, Sundar Pichai talks about potential positive impact, while Sergey Brin, who led 2010 pullout,

Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: Tencent says PUBG Mobile, a scaled-down version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, crossed 100M downloads less than 4 months after its release on

Bruce Brown / Digital Trends: Amazon updates Alexa with skill to show last recorded event from Ring, Arlo, August, and Cloud Cam security cameras on