谷歌的内部政治斗争不断向公众蔓延

在谷歌，这是一段不愉快的时光。...

在谷歌，这是一段不愉快的时光。

自从去年詹姆斯·达莫尔（James Damore）的争议以来，谷歌一直面临着希望公开**公司政治的不满员工的频繁爆发。今年1月，一位前安全工程师表示，他被阻止分享他支持多样性的观点。今年夏天，一群员工成功地向该公司施压，要求其停止为军方建造人工智能项目。一个类似的组织正在努力阻止该公司重新进入中国。

所有这些都以非同寻常的公开方式发生了——而且是在对谷歌及其母公司Alphabet越来越不友好的政治背景下发生的。特朗普总统一再在推特上发表毫无根据的指控，称该公司对保守派有偏见。立法者举行的听证会似乎主要是为了让谷歌及其科技巨头同行难堪。

周三，有报道称，司法部长杰夫·塞申斯（Jeff Sessi***）可能会对科技公司展开反垄断和消费者保**调查，谷歌有人给了他一份礼物：2016年美国总统选举后谷歌第一次全体会议长达一小时的视频，在这篇文章中，垂头丧气的高管们试图安慰他们正在讲话的员工。

这段视频显然已经流传了半年了；《****》的杰克·尼卡斯在3月份的一篇文章中提到了这一点。现在Breitbart发布了整个会议，内部称为TGIF，供大家观看。

我知道你在想什么：终于有机会重温2016年的选举了！

事实证明，这段视频并没有布雷巴特令人窒息的画面——以及近乎滑稽的深度符号——所暗示的那么糟糕。在11月选举后的几天里，许多公司都举行了类似的会议，进步人士、有色人种、LGBT人士和其他边缘化社区开始意识到特朗普**对他们及其家人和亲人意味着什么。这些担忧……并非毫无根据！各地的高管都感到有必要向员工保证，他们理解他们的恐惧，并会尽全力支持他们。

当然，他们中的一些人——包括移民，比如谷歌联合创始人谢尔盖·布林——自己也对这一消息感到失望。

“这里的大多数人都非常沮丧和悲伤，”布林在会议开始时说我觉得这次选举非常令人反感，我知道你们很多人也这么认为。这是一个充满压力的时期，它与我们的许多价值观相冲突。我认为现在是反思的好时机…很多人显然不认同我们的价值观。”

与此同时，高管们不会直接批评特朗普，也不会暗示他们的政治信仰将体现在公司产品或服务的变化中。

谷歌首席执行官Sundar Pichai告诉听众，许多员工给他发了电子邮件，说他们担心特朗普**的后果。他鼓励他们直言不讳，接触政治对手，拥抱民主进程。

“这是一个公平和民主的过程，我们对此感到荣幸，”领导谷歌法律和政策团队的肯特·沃克（Kent Walker）表示。

在对Buzzfeed的一份声明中，谷歌指出该公司鼓励人们分享他们的观点。”20多年来，谷歌的每个人都能在这些会议上自由表达自己的观点在那次会议上，或任何其他会议上，都没有提到任何政治偏见会影响我们生产或经营产品的方式。相反，我们的产品是为每个人设计的，我们非常小心地将其设计为每个人都可以信赖的信息来源，而不考虑政治观点。”

我相信这是真的，尽管我不确定这是否重要。保守党组织很快就把这段视频称为“一支冒烟的枪”。我希望立法者在未来的听证会上会引用这段视频。即使证据链中表明谷歌“有偏见”的各个环节只不过是一连串的意外事件，右翼噪音机器无休止的重复仍可能将其塑造成一个强有力的叙事。

我认为这段视频更像是一个时间胶囊。谷歌员工团体反对特朗普议程已经不是什么秘密，特别是在移民问题上。如果说有什么区别的话，这段视频捕捉到了谷歌更加统一的时代。其中一人泄露给布雷巴特——当然完全知道接下来会发生什么——提供了更多的证据，证明时间已经过去了。

民主

欧盟版权指令投票：第11条和第13条获得批准

我的同事詹姆斯·文森特（James Vincent）向我们概述了欧盟的版权指令，批评人士称该指令威胁到我们所知的互联网。它的条款可以进一步巩固现有企业，同时为我们其他人打破部分互联网。它将在1月份进行最后投票，但预计将通过：

Critics of the Copyright Directive say these provisi*** are disastrous. In the case of Article 11, they note that attempts to “tax” platforms like Google News for sharing articles have repeatedly failed, and that the system would be ripe to abuse by copyright trolls.

Article 13, they say, is even worse. The legislation requires that platforms proactively work with rightsholders to stop users uploading copyrighted content. The only way to do so would be to scan all data being uploaded to sites like YouTube and Facebook. This would create an incredible burden for **all platforms, and could be used as a mechani** for widespread censorship. This is why figures like Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee came out so strongly against the directive.

维基媒体称欧盟版权指令“错失良机”

欧盟的批评者包括维基百科和Reddit，我的同事拉塞尔·布兰登报道：

“Today’s vote dealt a significant blow to the open Internet, and to **aller companies like Reddit,” a representative told The Verge. “It is disappointing to see the Parliament disregard the concerns of those c***tituents and experts who know the Internet best– including its very architects. We’re evaluating what this means for Reddit, and we will continue to keep our community informed.”

特朗普同意制裁干预选举的外国人

嘿，他真的签了！

“We felt it was important to dem***trate the president has taken command of this issue, that it’s something he cares deeply about — that the integrity of our electi*** and our c***titutional process are a high priority to him,” said national security adviser John Bolton.

In the order, the president declared a national emergency, an action required under sancti*** authority, to deal with the threat of foreign meddling in U.S. electi***.

大型科技公司将出席参议院讨论隐私问题

参议院商务委员会将于9月26日举行听证会，讨论谷歌、Facebook、亚马逊和Twitter的隐私保护措施。麦金农：

“Americans are struggling to understand what’s being collected and how it’s used,” said Sen. John Thune (R., S.D.), the committee chairman. “We’re holding this hearing to help inform c***umers and to determine where the federal government may need to assert itself.”

The hearing will give lawmakers a chance to understand how internet companies have fueled their rapid growth by leveraging c***umer data to sell advertising and other services and products.

吸引孩子们的游戏应用程序是如何收集数据的

在9月26日的听证会上可能会有一篇文章：新墨西哥州司法部长的一项诉讼指控一家受欢迎的应用程序**商以及谷歌和推特运营的在线广告公司违反了儿童隐私法。来自詹妮弗·瓦伦蒂诺·德弗里斯、娜塔莎歌手、亚伦·克罗利克和迈克尔·H。凯勒：

Before Kim Slingerland downloaded the Fun Kid Racing app for her then-5-year-old son, Shane, she checked to make sure it was in the family section of the Google Play store and rated as age-appropriate. The game, which lets children race cartoon cars with animal drivers, has been downloaded milli*** of times.

Until last month, the app also shared users’ data, sometimes including the precise location of devices, with more than a half-dozen advertising and online tracking companies. On Tuesday evening, New Mexico’s attorney general filed a lawsuit claiming that the maker of Fun Kid Racing had violated a federal children’s privacy law through dozens of Android apps that shared children’s data.

近600个与俄罗斯有关的账户在推特上发布了有关卫生法的信息

斯蒂芬妮·阿莫尔（Stephanie Armor）和保罗·奥弗伯格（Paul Overberg）报道说，俄罗斯巨魔也可能是政策书呆子：

A newly identified group of nearly 10,000 tweets shows that while Russian trolls often focus on such hot-button issues as Hillary Clinton’s email or athletes kneeling during the national anthem, they also target substantive and divisive policy areas like health care.

Nearly 600 IRA-linked accounts posted toTwitter about the ACA and health policy from 2014 through this past May, with the most prolific ones tweeting hundreds of times, the new data show. One account, called TEN_GOP, rocketed from fewer than 1,000 followers to more than 138,000 in two years, sending 60 tweets that potentially reached followers more than four million times.

在别处

Reddit已禁止QAnon阴谋subreddit r/Greatawaking

原因尚不完全清楚，但卡农月球蝙蝠最主要的**地之一已经关闭。这显然是开始执行去年通过的规则的更大努力的一部分。

Reddit has banned its subreddit devoted to QAnon c***piracy theories, stating that it violated rules against “inciting violence, haras**ent, and the dissemination of personal information.” NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny tweeted about the ban of r/GreatAwakening earlier today. It’s the second high-profile purge of a QAnon subreddit — a board called r/CBTS_stream was banned in March for repeatedly violating Reddit guidelines. Some of the subreddit’s users have regrouped on Reddit clone Voat, which takes a more hands-off approach to moderation.

Instagram首席运营官马恩·莱文（Marne Levine）将重返Facebook，成为其高管之一

据刚度完蜜月回到办公室的库尔特·瓦格纳（Kurt Wagner）报道，Instagram首席运营官马恩·莱文（Marne Levine）一直保持低调，同时帮助该品牌发展成为Facebook的主要业务，他现在将接管蓝色巨人的所有合作伙伴关系。恭喜你，库尔特！

It’s a big promotion for Levine, who will join Facebook’s management team, though her appointment isn’t a total surprise. She was a likely internal candidate for the position, as reported by Recode last month, and was a top Facebook executive running public policy at the social giant before joining Instagram. She’s also best friends with Sandberg.

“Since she began at Instagram four years ago, Marne has been an invaluable COO,” Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom said in a statement shared with Recode. “We have grown from a community of 300 million to more than a billion, from a team of just over 100 to more than a thousand employees and opened offices all over the world. There are few executives with the range and skill of Marne.”

搜索收购Vurb首席执行官离职，Snapchat股价创历史新低

从商业的角度来看，很难夸大一个糟糕的年景。两年前，该公司斥资1.14亿美元购买了一款名为Vurb的移动搜索应用程序；该公司的首席执行官周三辞职，没有费心把所有股票都转出。Josh Contine报告称，这是一个比其他方式更容易选择的原因之一，因为该股周三跌至历史低点：

Given Snap is known to back-weight its stock vesting schedules, Lo could be leaving over half of his retention shares on the table. That decision should worry investors. As a solo founder, Lo already made off with a big chunk of the acquisition price that including $21 million in cash and $83 million in stock, so with the company’s share price so low, he might have had little incentive to stay.

Since last July, Snap has lost a ton of talent including SVP of Engineering Tim Sehn, early employee Chloe Drimal, VP of HR and Legal Robyn Thomas and VP of Securities and Facilities Martin Lev, CFO Drew Vollero, VP of product Tom Conrad, TimeHop co-founder Jonathan Wegener, Spectacles team lead Mark Randall, ad tech manager Sriram Krishnan, head of sales Jeff Lucas, and just last week, its COO Imran Khan.

一名在TripAdvisor上兜售虚假评论的小贩被判入狱

在一项重大进展中，通过撰写虚假评论进行欺诈的人将因此在意大利被判入狱：

An Italian court handed down a nine-month prison sentence to a person who wrote fake hotel reviews on TripAdvisor in exchange for money from hotels aiming An Italian court has ruled that writing fake TripAdvisor reviews using a false identity is illegal and sentenced someone to nine months in prison.

有些学生想取消课堂上的陈述

泰勒·洛伦兹（Taylor Lorenz）报道说，青少年希望利用社交媒体的压力，摆脱教育中最可怕的仪式之一：在全班同学面前讲话：

In the past few years, students have started calling out in-class presentati*** as discriminatory to those with anxiety, demanding that teachers offer alternative opti***. This week, a tweet posted by 15-year-old high school student declaring “Stop forcing students to present in front of the class and give them a choice not to” garnered over 130,000 retweets and nearly half a million likes. A similar sentiment tweeted in January also racked up thousands of likes and retweets. And teachers are listening.

2018年苹果iPhone事件：最大的公告

苹果周三宣布了三款新的iPhone机型：XS、XS Max和XR。在这里赶上！

发射

如果您搜索特定的标签，Instagram将发送一个关于阿片类药物成瘾支持的弹出窗口

数月来，Instagram一直批评在平台上查找药物是多么容易，现在Instagram增加了一些基本措施，引导吸毒者找到可以帮助他们的资源，首先是在搜索药物时弹出一条消息：

“If you or someone you know is struggling with opioid or substance misuse, find ways to get free and confidential treatment referrals, as well as information about substance abuse, prevention, and recovery.”

The user can then opt to get support resources that Instagram developed with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Council on Alcoholi** and Drug Dependence, and the Partnership for Drug Free Kids. There will also be advice for family and friends of people with substance abuse problems.

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硅谷C.E.O.s.的蜕变：从大到无聊

法哈德·曼乔（Farhad Manjoo）调查了为什么撇开埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）不谈，科技公司的首席执行官不再浮华。

It’s no mystery why tech leaders are turning inward. “Tech is now such a huge and dominant industry,” said Joshua Reeves, the proudly boring founder and chief executive of Gusto, a start-up that makes human resources software. “The fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants mind-set is just not viable when you have a trillion-dollar market capitalization or if you have more influence than many governments around the world.”

苹果iPhone事件，Facebook事实调查，Vimeo再次旋转[$]

本·汤普森（Ben Thompson）善意地链接了昨天关于Facebook事实调查的时事通讯，并提出了一个聪明的观点：

Oh, and by the way, read again the headline of the piece I started with: does the author think it is actually true that Facebook’s idea of fact-checking is censoring ThinkProgress because a c***ervative site told them to? Or is the thirst for clicks worth choosing hyperbole over truth, and the outrage less about the pursuit of objective truth and more about the insistence that the powers that be enforce one’s own political goals?