Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter!
Sam Plumptre
(CEO @ http://CoInvestor.co.uk Director @Pulld_UK, Growth Company Investor, Ex-Small Cap Equities Fund Manager, East Kent enthusiast & proud father of 2 tyrants)
The Wall Street Journal
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Jeff Horwitz
– May 26, 8:38 AM
A Facebook Inc. team had a blunt message for senior executives. The company's algorithms weren't bringing people together. They were driving people apart. “Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness,” read a…
Image Credits: Stegerphoto / Getty Images If only Facebook had been using the kind of technology that TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus D-ID was pitching, it could have avoided exposing all of our faces to privacy destroying software services…
Cody Glenn/Sportsfile via Getty Images When it comes to biotech company Insitro, it's not the machine learning platform or the cutting-edge biology that lures in investors: it's the founder and CEO, Daphne Koller. Koller has an impressive resume; a…
The Financial Times
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Hannah Murphy in San Francisco and Kiran Stacey in Washington
– May 26, 4:38 PM
Twitter has put a fact-check warning on some of Donald Trump's tweets for the first time, marking an escalation in tensions between the Silicon Valley company and its most prolific user. The social media network on Tuesday added the label to two…
The Financial Times
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Anna Gross and Joe Rennison in London
– May 26, 1:30 PM
Highly rated companies including Disney, Apple and ExxonMobil have borrowed a trillion dollars in five months as they seek to fortify their balance sheets against the coronavirus-induced economic downturn. US corporate bond issuance from…
