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Tech companies like Google are giving workers the right to take sexual harassment claims to court — but employees are calling for more

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

Instagram is cracking down on services that sell ‘Likes’ and followers

By Kurt Wagner

A top Silicon Valley investor is considering adding a new weapon to its arsenal: Loans

General Catalyst has been weighing a new business that would be another evolution in the Silicon Valley investing playbook: A credit fund that would lend money to startups.

By Theodore Schleifer
From Vox Media

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Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook? It’s complicated.

The executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, Jameel Jaffer, unpacks the answer on the latest Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson

From Mark Zuckerberg to George Soros, here’s everything you need to know about Facebook’s latest crisis

What’s going on? We’ve got you covered.

By Kurt Wagner

Recode Daily: Are killer robots and social-media soldiers the future of war?

Plus: Mark Zuckerberg told key staff that Facebook is at war; Disney is spending billions to supercharge its theme park division; Creep-O-Meter holiday gift guide (privacy not included).

By Recode Staff

Here’s what Amazon HQ2 employees will face in Long Island City when it comes to transportation, housing and ... sewage

A lot of change is on the horizon for the Queens neighborhood.

By Rani Molla

Marc Benioff defends Salesforce’s contract with Customs and Border Protection

"Every company in our industry will now have to look at the ethical and humane use of the technology that they’re building."

By Shirin Ghaffary

The San Francisco air quality is so bad that Uber drivers are selling masks out of their cars

The city has seen some of the worst air quality in the world in the past few days.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Elon Musk: The Recode interview

Musk talks about his "excruciating" 2018, fighting with journalists on Twitter, why Tesla won’t build an electric scooter and much more.

By Kara Swisher
Code Conference

Full video and transcript: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at Code 2018

By Recode Staff

"Just like Amazon sells third party goods, we are going to also offer third party transportation services. So, we wanna kinda be the Amazon for transportation."

Here’s how you can trace an ’80s hip-hop beat back to 1910

By Rani Molla

Vox.com’s senior video producer Estelle Caswell explains it all.

Full video and transcript: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel at Code 2018

By Recode Staff

"As time goes on, I think it will become clear to more and more people that our values are really hard to copy."

Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram was the greatest regulatory failure of the past decade, says Stratechery’s Ben Thompson

By Kurt Wagner

Instagram gave Facebook unfair reach, Thompson argues.

Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mister Rogers’

The company is under fire, again, this time for years of dirty tricks exposed by the New York Times.

By Eric Johnson

Facebook’s board is throwing public support behind Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg — who are on Facebook’s board

Also: Zuckerberg gave Sandberg his personal vote of confidence following a damning New York Times story published Wednesday.

By Kurt Wagner

Washington pummels Facebook: ‘Big tech can no longer be trusted’

One senator says the company "actually encouraged anti-Semitism" by hiring an opposition-research firm.

By Theodore Schleifer

Watch: Scott Galloway’s provocative predictions on Amazon, Walmart and the future of retail

Why Walmart will beat Amazon at groceries.

By Rani Molla

Facebook’s top lawyer — who said he was leaving the company — isn’t leaving after all, because Facebook is still in crisis

General Counsel Colin Stretch said in July that he was leaving. Now he’s staying into 2019.

By Kurt Wagner

Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green

Reed Hastings wants to compete with YouTube overseas, and the only way it can do that is by offering a free-with-ads option, Green says on Recode Media.

By Eric Johnson

Who does Facebook fire after a bombshell New York Times investigation?

The news leader published a damning story about the social media giant’s handling of recent scandals, so who gets the blame? If anyone.

By Kurt Wagner

Watch Marc Benioff try to explain what he’s going to do with Time magazine

"I’m the inspiring visionary!"

By Kurt Wagner
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Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook? It’s complicated.

By Eric Johnson

The executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, Jameel Jaffer, unpacks the answer on the latest Recode Decode.

Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mister Rogers’

By Eric Johnson

The company is under fire, again, this time for years of dirty tricks exposed by the New York Times.

Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green

By Eric Johnson

Reed Hastings wants to compete with YouTube overseas, and the only way it can do that is by offering a free-with-ads option, Green says on Recode Media.

Why nonprofits should think more like tech companies

By Eric Johnson

"Social Startup Success" author Kathleen Kelly Janus explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

Why nonprofits should think more like tech companies

"Social Startup Success" author Kathleen Kelly Janus explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson

Marc Benioff says he had rabbis and imams supporting the Prop C homelessness tax — but not tech CEOs

Business leaders are conditioned with a "Pavlovian" response against tax hikes, said the Salesforce CEO.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Josh Harder has won his congressional race to become the only venture capitalist in the House of Representatives

The entire race was effectively a referendum on Silicon Valley.

By Theodore Schleifer

Jeff Bezos has confirmed the HQ2 decision and it’s the embodiment of Amazon’s emotionless practicality

Duh.

By Jason Del Rey

How Amazon’s HQ2 and HQ3 locations compare with Seattle and the U.S. overall

"National Landing" and Long Island City have high office vacancy rates and are both cheaper places to buy homes than Seattle.

By Rani Molla

Airbnb is donating $5 million toward helping the homeless in San Francisco

It’s the biggest donation the company has made in its hometown to date.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?

The site’s new Editor in Chief Noah Shachtman wants to take "full, big, considered swings" at the targets who deserve it.

By Eric Johnson

How a Democratic fundraiser taught everyone his Silicon Valley tricks

RevUp CEO Steve Spinner cracked the code on raising money for politicians online. And he says it’s not so different from raising money for a startup.

By Eric Johnson

The exec who built Snapchat Discover is leaving the company

Nick Bell is stepping down following some recent management changes and four-plus tumultuous years.

By Kurt Wagner

Amazon is dominant online, but local retail still has advantages Jeff Bezos can’t replicate

Sometimes it’s worth putting on your shoes and taking a walk.

By Kara Swisher

Snap’s former No. 2 executive Imran Khan is building a shopping startup

Khan plans to launch a new shopping platform in 2019.

By Kurt Wagner

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates explains how Donald Trump is trying to corrupt the Justice Department

Yates talked with Recode’s Kara Swisher shortly before the midterms at the AllRaise Summit in San Francisco.

By Eric Johnson

Voice tech like Alexa and Siri hasn’t found its true calling yet: Inside the voice assistant ‘revolution’

Until we invent something that wouldn’t be possible without voice, we’re just repurposing online content for our ears.

By Rani Molla

Facebook followed Uber and Google and is ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment cases

Arbitration is now a "choice rather than a requirement" at Facebook.

By Kurt Wagner

Amazon’s HQ2 was a con, not a contest

On the latest episode of Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about Amazon’s two new "headquarters," the toxic waste of social media and the mixed bag of the 2018 midterms.

By Eric Johnson

Google has responded to its employees’ demands about sexual misconduct. Here are the changes it will and won’t make.

The planned changes come a week after thousands of employees walked out over the company’s handling of sexual misconduct cases.

By Shirin Ghaffary
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