Adi Robertson

Hamas is banned from most social media as a designated terrorist organization, but as The Washington Post lays out, it’s used a popular Telegram account to “strengthen supporters’ resolve, stir up anti-Israel rage in neighboring countries, defend its militants’ brutality and induce sympathy to the plight of Gaza.” As The New York Times wrote yesterday, it’s also recently hijacked hostages’ social media accounts to spread terror and propaganda — in ways that are particularly hard to safeguard against.

I worked my way through Trust & Safety Tycoon, and I was right: the brony call came back to haunt me. I encourage you to beat my score.

Techdirt’s Mike Masnick has helped put together a followup to online moderation simulator Moderator Mayhem, and I’ve barely gotten started, but it looks like just as much fun. You can find out more about Trust & Safety Tycoon on Techdirt or play it here.

I spent some time with it last week — it’s as unsettling as you’d expect an interactive narrative from the studio behind Pathologic to be.

After a slight delay, the Department of Justice has posted an exhibit from earlier this week in US v. Google, shedding light on the details of Apple and Google’s multibillion-dollar search deal.

Now, his email to Larry Page and Sergey Brin (among others) has surfaced in the US v. Google trial, where the Department of Justice is taking aim at Google’s multibillion-dollar deal for prime placement in Apple’s browser. Google argues it’s simply the best choice, but in those early years, Pichai appeared ambivalent about the exclusivity deal regardless.

The Microsoft CEO’s testimony will follow extensive questions this week about the company’s dealings with Apple and its struggle to get Bing on the iPhone, apparently including floating a sale of the search engine to Apple. And after a week of locked-down testimony, Judge Amit Mehta has directed as much of it as possible to take place in public session.