11.3.2019
Good to Know: ICYMI – the Internet turned 50.
THE SKINNY
When It’s Bad News … Five people tragically lost their lives on Halloween night. A shooting went down at an AirBnB party in Orinda, CA.
When You Want to Know How? Turns out a woman rented out a place for one-night only. She said it was for “her asthmatic family members” to escape CA wildfire smoke. But, that was a lie.
When It’s Time to Take Action … AirBnB co-founder and CEO took to Twitter to let people know that the company takes this seriously and will be upping its game “to combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct.”
When You Want More Details … How’s AirBnB going to do this? Well for one, it says it’ll increase manual screenings of “high risk” reservations tagged by its system. It’s also putting together a rapid response team focusing specifically on house parties. The team will be headed up by Margaret Richardson, its VP of Trust. She’s kicking off a 10-day review to see how to go about fixing this issue.
When People Don’t Believe You … AirBnB has its skeptics. Count Jessica Black (a lawyer and founder of Moms Against Short Term Rentals) as one of them. She says AirBnB probably can’t pull off what it’s saying it’ll do. She thinks this is all for show on account of AirBnB plans to go public next year. Time will tell …
WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON?
When You’re Going In A Different Direction … For a while now, Facebook’s said it’s def not banning political ads because … free speech. Over at Twitter, Jack Dorsey said nah, the Twitterverse don’t play that. In a series of tweets, Dorsey let ‘em know: “We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought.” It’s a thread worth reading.
THE STREETS ARE TALKING …
It’s official. Google’s acquired Fitbit for $2.1 billion. Google says not to worry about your health and wellness data. They say it won’t be used for Google ads.
Dog walking app Wag is ready to sell.
Tik Tok is now under investigation by the U.S. because … national security.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING …
We’re not sure yet. Apple TV+ , HBO Max, and Disney + are coming out with some good stuff. We’ll let ya’ll decide.
CAREER THINGS …
Robots are coming if Russian startup Promobot has anything to do with it. Looks like the robots that’ll be taking over your jobs are also white men. Hmmm …
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