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<ul><li>Meta is rolling out a new update aimed at improving video calls on WhatsApp.</li><li>As part of the new update, the cap on participants has been increased to 32 for all platforms.</li><li>The update also brings screen sharing with audio, making <keyword id="22052091" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="watch-parties" source="keywords">watch parties</keyword> possible.</li></ul>Mark Zuckeberg-led Meta has started rolling out a new update for WhatsApp that brings new features for its video calls, which is aimed at making it easier and better for video calls with a larger group. The new features are a part of the new <keyword id="22052092" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Calling-Update" source="keywords">Calling Update</keyword>, which is rolling out for both app and web users. “We’ll continue making improvements to calling on WhatsApp so you can make the best quality, private calls wherever you are in the world,” WhatsApp said in its blog post. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="What’s new" comment="subhead" text="What’s new">What’s new</cmsannotation> <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Screen sharing with audio" comment="subhead2" text="Screen sharing with audio">Screen sharing with audio</cmsannotation> As part of the update, WhatsApp is now rolling out a new screen sharing with an audio feature. This enables users to watch videos together, making it possible to host watch parties right on WhatsApp. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Increased participants" comment="subhead2" text="Increased participants">Increased participants</cmsannotation> WhatsApp has also increased the number of participants for video calls to 32. At present, the cap on participants for video calls is set at 32 for the mobile app, 16 for the Windows app and 8 for the Mac app. With the new update which is rolling out in the coming weeks, the cap will increase to 32 for all platforms. This will make it possible for larger groups to easily join a video call. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Speaker spotlight" comment="subhead2" text="Speaker spotlight">Speaker spotlight</cmsannotation> The speaker spotlight is a small feature addition, which allows you to see who is talking. This basically highlights the box of the person who is speaking and makes them appear first on the screen. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="New codec for improved quality" comment="subhead2" text="New codec for improved quality">New codec for improved quality</cmsannotation> Another recent update was the addition of the MLow codec, which the company says will improve call reliability. “Calls made on mobile devices benefit from improved noise and echo cancellation, making it easier to have calls in noisy environments, and video calls have higher resolution for those with faster connections. Audio is crisper overall, even if you have poor network connectivity or are using an older device,” WhatsApp added. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/tata-group-reportedly-looking-to-acquire-a-majority-stake-in-vivo-india/articleshow/110987274.cms">Tata Group reportedly looking to acquire a majority stake in Vivo India</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/webstories/bmw-r-1300-gs-superbike-launched-in-india-at-20-95-lakh/slidelist/110971512.cms">BMW R 1300 GS superbike launched in India at ₹20.95 lakh</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-6-will-reportedly-get-a-100-price-bump/articleshow/110959434.cms">Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 will reportedly get a $100 price bump</a>

WhatsApp now allows video calls with 32 people, screen sharing and more

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11892960" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook" source="Orion">Facebook</keyword> just added Tony Xu to its board of powerful tech players.</li><li>Xu cofounded DoorDash in 2013 with some classmates from Stanford University.</li></ul>Tony Xu is the latest major tech player to take a director seat on Facebook's board.The company announced in a filing with the SEC on Tuesday that Xu, the co-founder and CEO of delivery company DoorDash, would join its board of directors. While he does not yet have a committee appointment, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement, "I've always thought it's important to have great tech leaders on our board.""Tony has direct experience both running a tech company and solving complex challenges in commerce," Zuckerberg added. "I look forward to learning from his perspective as we build towards the metaverse."Xu noted that Facebook, which recently <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-meta-metaverse-oculus-ar-vr-cto-andrew-bosworth-connect-2021-10">changed its corporate name to Meta</a>, had various business tools for "local merchants" and said he, too, is looking forward to "working with the board as the company enters the next stage of its journey."Xu has been CEO of DoorDash since he founded it with a trio of Stanford classmates in 2013. It went public in 2020 after an initial public offering.Among the rest of its 10-person board are Peggy Alford, who leads global sales at PayPal; Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz; Drew Houston, cofounder and CEO of DropBox; and Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund.The addition of Xu comes as Facebook, which makes nearly all of its revenue from selling digital ads on its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, invests heavily into the commerce part of its business.In 2020 Facebook <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-nears-deal-to-buy-chatbot-startup-kustomer-wsj-2020-11">acquired</a> Kustomer, a customer management company, for a reported $1 billion as it expanded into ecommerce. A <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-facebook-instagram-dan-levy-commerce-priorities-shops-marketplace-retail-2021-12">leaked document</a> from late last year also detailed the company's plans to invest more into shopping capabilities with Dan Levy, the VP of Ads and Business Platform, saying he envisioned Facebook's apps "being a primary destination for commerce" to rival Shopify.Facebook has seen a number of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-facebook-executives-who-have-left-this-year-meta-2021-12">top executives leave</a> in the last year, including its former head of ads Carolyn Everson. Longtime CTO Mike Schroepfer also announced he would step down last year, with Andrew Bozworth, the company's head of augmented and virtual reality, taking over as it pivots toward <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-meta-patents-show-vision-for-hyperrealistic-metaverse-2022-1">building an immersive future of social media</a>, called the metaverse. Internal documents <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-meta-commerce-shopping-metaverse-priorities-2021-12">obtained by Insider</a> show the company doesn't plan to invest in ecommerce in the metaverse until at least 2023, however.Are you a <keyword id="12416504" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="meta" source="Orion">Meta</keyword> employee with insight to share? Got a tip? Contact Kali Hays at khays@insider.com or through secure messaging app Signal at 949-280-0267. Reach out using a non-work device. Twitter DM at @hayskali.

Facebook adds DoorDash cofounder and CEO Tony Xu to its board of directors

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In recent years, <keyword id="11892960" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook" source="Orion">Facebook</keyword> has gained a reputation for its older demographic.</li><li>Insider spoke with three people between 51 and 61 who said they don't use the platform.</li></ul>While Facebook was once a hot spot for young people on the internet, the platform has developed a reputation for having an older demographic as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-facebook-teenagers-social-media-use-piper-sandler-survey-2021-10">teens have fled</a> the website <a href="https://www.insider.com/facebook-gen-z-teens-boomer-social-network-leaks-2021-10">over the last decade</a>.Megan Baron, a 19-year-old from Ohio, previously told Insider that Facebook "seems like such a <keyword id="12526838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="boomer" source="Orion">boomer</keyword> social network." Alexis, a 14-year-old from Virginia, said that she wouldn't use the platform "as long as older people are on there."The rate of older Americans using the website has grown significantly in recent years. Between 2015 and 2019, the percentage of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boomers-worsening-americas-pandemic-housing-crisis-real-estate-millennials-2021-7">boomers</a> and folks from the Silent generation (born in 1945 or earlier) who said they were on Facebook increased by double digits, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/09/us-generations-technology-use/">according to the Pew Research Center</a>. People above 45 years old make up 35.2% of the total US Facebook users, while users between 13 and 17 only make up 2.9% of the total, <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribution-of-users-age-group-usa/">according to a July 2021 report by Statistica,</a> a market and consumer data consulting firm. While the numbers paint a clear picture of the cohort change, some baby boomers and members of Gen X say they actually dislike Facebook, too. Insider spoke with three folks between the ages of 51 and 61 who agreed with many teens who aren't interested in Facebook.<h2>Some people said they didn't use Facebook because of misinformation and privacy concerns</h2>Some people told Insider that they were concerned about misinformation on Facebok.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/230764881494641">While the platform has instituted policies</a> to remove COVID-19 misinformation, internal documents suggest that Facebook has struggled to prevent and remove COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy content, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/report-facebook-tech-is-failing-to-detect-vaccine-misinformation-2021-10">Insider reported</a>. Tim Simmons, 51 (making him a part of Gen X), told Insider he left Facebook two years ago because "it's turned into a sewer." He said many people he sees on the platform are "posting views that are either unacceptable or blatant BS," like political opinions he disagreed with, health misinformation, and "the overwhelming amount of general information being disseminated that is easily debunked," he added.A Reddit user from the Midwest, who is 53 and wished to stay anonymous due to privacy concerns but asked to go by the nickname Jack, said via Reddit message that the misinformation he sees on the platform is one reason he does not like it. Jack, who is part of Gen X, said he's been using Reddit for years and used to be on LinkedIn, but quit because "it became too much like Facebook."Simmons, who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia and works as an IT specialist for the US government, said he had security concerns with the platform shortly after he began using Facebook. Facebook has a long history of security leaks and privacy breaches, like in April when a user on a hacking forum posted <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4">533 million Facebook users' personal data</a> - including phone numbers, locations, first and last names.Simmons said he uses Reddit most frequently, and has an Instagram account, but has ditched all other social media platforms.Kate Van Houten, a 61-year-old from San Francisco who said she exclusively uses Reddit, told Insider that she quit and rejoined Facebook multiple times over the years and was only ever on it to stay abreast of friends' activities. The baby boomer said she finally left because her friends "kept posting pictures of their food and saying stupid things."Jack said the only change that "might" get him to use Facebook more would be if the company allowed everyone to stay anonymous, although he added that "if everyone was anonymous it wouldn't really be FB and quite honestly, not that useful." "If they really wanted me back," Simmons said, "they'd give me more control over my data, and, moreover, more control over what I see." He added that he didn't like being served content and promotional products by Facebook's algorithm.Van Houten said the only way Facebook could lure her back on the platform is if "they give me a reason to feel like I need it." She said she spends too much time on Reddit already and should "probably be doing something else."Still, though, Facebook users do not appear to be on the decline worldwide. The platform was at its highest peak ever with 2.9 billion monthly active users in the 3rd quarter of 2021, <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/">according to an October 2021 report by Statistica</a>.

'Boomers' explain why they don't like Facebook, despite its reputation as an older social network

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Of the almost 500 new <keyword id="11940268" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="billionaires" source="Orion">billionaires</keyword> globally, nearly 100 of them are in the US.</li><li>This comes amid a devastating pandemic that plunged 3.3 million more people into <keyword id="11964087" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="poverty" source="Orion">poverty</keyword>.</li></ul>While the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the globe and 37.2 million people in the US lived below the poverty line in 2020 - marking an increase of 3.3 million people from the year prior - 98 people in the US were added to the <keyword id="11956280" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="forbes" source="Orion">Forbes</keyword> World's Billionaires list.A total of 493 newcomers achieved billionaire status globally since the start of the pandemic, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-became-5-trillion-richer-during-pandemic-forbes-list-2021-4">Insider reported in April</a>.There are 724 US billionaires total (<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2021/04/06/nearly-500-people-have-become-billionaires-during-the-pandemic-year/?sh=26b7c30325c0">out of 2,755 billionaires globally</a>), and their wealth amounts to $4.4 trillion - $2 trillion more than last year, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mominakhan/2021/04/06/the-10-richest-american-billionaires-2021/?sh=775d18f3d981">according to Forbes</a>.New additions to the list include reality TV star Kim Kardashian, filmmaker Tyler Perry, pop star and entrepreneur Rihanna, Apple CEO Tim Cook, casino owner Miriam Adelson, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel.The Biden administration found <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/09/23/new-omb-cea-report-billionaires-pay-an-average-federal-individual-income-tax-rate-of-just-8-2/">the top 400 wealthiest billionaires pay an estimated 8% in federal individual income taxes</a> between 2010 and 2018, which is lower than the average working household.Democratic lawmakers briefly proposed a billionaires' tax this week, but quickly ditched the effort.On Tuesday, the former US Secretary of Labor and University of California, Berkeley professor, Robert Reich said "it would take a typical worker more than 800,000 years to earn what <keyword id="11897862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elon-musk" source="Orion">Elon Musk</keyword> made yesterday. Yet Musk warns that a billionaire tax would eventually raise taxes on everyone else?"Reich was referring to the growth of the Tesla CEO's net worth after the company reached a market cap of $1 trillion the day before.

Nearly 100 new people achieved billionaire status in the US during the pandemic

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11892960" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook" source="Orion">Facebook</keyword> unveiled a new name, Meta, for itself Thursday to its <keyword id="11121339" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="metaverse" source="Orion">metaverse</keyword> goal.</li><li>Experts said a rebrand won't be enough to solve its problems.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-new-name-meta-rebrand-metaverse-zuckerberg-apps-2021-10">Facebook announced a new corporate name, Meta, for itself Thursday.</a>"From now on, we'll be metaverse first, not Facebook first," CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/facebook-company-is-now-meta/">said</a> during the company's Oculus Connect event. "Over time, you won't need to use Facebook to use our other services."But experts agreed that a simple name change wouldn't magically solve widespread backlash and the company's main problem, which is "the governance of the Facebook <keyword id="11895013" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="social-media" source="Orion">social media</keyword> platform," Erich Joachimsthaler, founder and CEO of consulting firm Vivaldi, said in an interview. The new name will reflect CEO Mark Zuckerberg's goal of becoming a "metaverse company" instead of just a social media platform, according to The Verge. The main Facebook app will exist under the new name, similarly to how Google is housed under the Alphabet umbrella. The rebrand and Facebook's increased focus on the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-metaverse-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-roblox-animal-crossing-2021-8">metaverse</a> are welcome distractions for the company after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-worrried-about-2018-algorithm-change-misinformation-trump-politics-2021-9">former employee-turned whistleblower Frances Haugen</a> leaked internal documents - known as the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-papers-mark-zuckerberg-frances-haugen-leaked-docs-2021-10">"Facebook Papers"</a> - to the press and testified before Congress. She said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-whistleblower-hearing-testimony-frances-haugen-senate-outage-wsj-leak-2021-10">Facebook prioritizes profits</a> over people's safety, and many of the internal documents appear to back up her case. Facebook has to do the "fundamental work" and address the problems that have plagued its social service, Anne Olderog - senior partner at Vivaldi with 20 years of brand strategy experience - told Insider. If not, those same problems could seep into the metaverse.And while the name change is exciting and creates momentum, Olderog said the public "can definitely see through things like that at this stage." Especially after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-a-guide-to-the-trump-linked-data-firm-that-harvested-50-million-facebook-profiles-2018-3">past missteps that the company has weathered before. </a>"We've already seen this since the day of the cigarette companies, with Altria and company rebranding themselves trying to get away from toxicity," Olderog said. "This is exactly what Facebook is trying to do right now."What Facebook's name change could do, however, is save its other projects - like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-horizon-workrooms-such-a-bad-idea-it-hurts-2021-8">Horizon</a> - from being associated with the bad press that Facebook has gotten, Ashley Cooksley, managing director for North America at The Social Element, told Insider. "If it's only the holding company that changes its name, it's presumably more about distancing the parent company from the Facebook product so that any toxicity in Facebook stays within that one product, rather than 'infecting' other brands under the parent banner," Cooksley said.But at the end of the day, it's about whether the public can put its faith in Facebook and its rebrand, which can "solve a world of pain for a brand," but only if it's done correctly, John Weiss, co-founder and partner at the branding and communications agency, Human, told Insider."The biggest issue Facebook faces is a lack of consumer trust that it has a greater purpose," Weiss said. "Simply unveiling a new brand will only serve to reinforce consumers' fears that Facebook is only concerned about itself."

A name change won't be enough to shield Facebook from the latest wave of backlash prompted by a trove of leaked documents

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="214107" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="AFL-CIO">AFL-CIO</keyword> President <keyword id="261970" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Richard-Trumka">Richard Trumka</keyword> demanded a personal apology from <keyword id="6354576" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword> CEO Mark Zuckerberg after it was revealed the company was working on a feature that could limit union drives.</li><li>"The AFL-CIO demands that Mark Zuckerberg personally apologize to working people, pull this tool immediately, and conduct a board-level investigation into how this product came into existence in the first place," Trumka said in a statement on Friday.</li><li>Earlier, a spokesperson for Facebook told Business Insider that the company has frozen production on its potentially union-busting feature.</li></ul>The largest union federation in the United States on Friday blasted Facebook after it was revealed the company was offering to let employers <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-designed-workplace-to-let-employers-suppress-words-like-unionize-2020-6">limit unionization efforts</a> on its platform.Facebook's Workplace functions as an internal message board for corporate clients, an answer to Slack or Microsoft Teams. This week, The Intercept reported that Facebook was promising those clients the ability to exert "content control" over their respective <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> feeds. Specifically, it said companies could suppress the word "unionize."That didn't sit well with the AFL-CIO, which represents more than 12.5 million union members."Employers censoring their employees' speech about unionizing is illegal," President Richard Trumka said in a <a href="https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-statement-facebooks-union-busting-tool">June 12 statement</a>. "The AFL-CIO demands that Mark Zuckerberg personally apologize to working people, pull this tool immediately, and conduct a board-level investigation into how this product came into existence in the first place."Earlier, a spokesperson for Facebook told Business Insider that the company has frozen production on its potentially union-busting feature."While these kinds of content moderation tools are useful for companies, this example was poorly chosen and should never have been used," the spokesperson said. "The feature was only in early development and we've pulled any plans to roll it out while we think through next steps."Trumka also called on Facebook to "embrace global labor rights standards for all its 48,000 workers and for its contractors who employ tens of thousands more," remain neutral to efforts to unionize and recognize employee <keyword id="57570" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="unions">unions</keyword>.Have a news tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a>

Largest union federation in the US demands apology from Mark Zuckerberg over new software feature that would allow employers blacklist words like 'unionize' in chats

<keyword id="6354576" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Facebook">Facebook</keyword> CEO Mark Zuckerberg is worth about $20 billion.
If I were worth $20 billion, my family would own, at the very least, two cars - a four-door and a sports car.
Probably, the four door would be a fully-loaded $120,000 Tesla Model S. It's an electric car, but it drives as fast and corners as well as a gas-powered super car.
This is what a Tesla Model S looks like:
<div class="image-container"><div class="image"><a href="http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/2013-tesla-model-s_100432932_l.jpg">Green Car Reports</a></div></div>
My two door would probably be a conventional gas-powered super car. Maybe a Ferarri? In red?
I'd also consider a Bugatti Veyron, which is powered by two V8 engines and costs $1.3 million - a bargain at just 0.0065% of my hypothetical net worth.
This is what a Bugatti Veyron looks like: <div class="image-container"><div class="image">Bugatti</div></div>
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not like me.
The approximate price difference between the $1.3 million Bugatti Veyron I would own if I had his money, and the car he actually owns is…$1.3 million.
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303640604579296452086218242">According to a story by t</a><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303640604579296452086218242">he Wall Street Journal's Evelyn Rusli,</a> Zuckeberg drives a Volkswagon.
Specifically, he drives a black Volkswagon GTI with a manual transmission.
Maxed-out with all the options, including cheesy floormats, a 2014 Volkswagon GTI with a manual transmission costs $30,415.
This is what Zuckerberg's car looks like:
<div class="image-container"><div class="image">Volkswagon</div></div>
Yep.
Mark Zuckerberg - worth $20 billion - drives a four-door hatchback to work.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Worth ~$20 Billion - And He Drives This $30,000 Hatchback

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/06/david-marcus-joins-facebook-as-vp-messaging-products/">Facebook</a></div></div></div>Mobile payments is a hot space, so when Facebook announced that PayPal's president would leave that company to come run its Messenger product in May, some people assumed that meant Facebook was diving in.
Not true, Mark Zuckeberg explained after he was asked why "payments guy" David Marcus is running Messenger. 
"David was pretty successful [building PayPal]," Zuckerberg said, defending Marcus as a good hire. "There will be some overlap between Messenger and payments and it will be part of what will help drive overall success ... there's so much groundwork we need to do so people are communicating [better] ... We have a lot of work to do and we could do the cheap and easy approach and put ads in and payments, but we're not going to ... We're going to do it over multiple years."
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-q2-earnings-2014-7">Zuckerberg then said that analysts were wrong</a> if they were thinking that Marcus's arrival meant they should try to put payments revenue in their financial estimates for Facebook: "Get that out of your models." 
The next question was on Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition, and Zuckerberg appeared to briefly lose his patience. "The deal hasn't closed. We have nothing to say."

Mark Zuckerberg Got A Little Snippy When Asked Why A 'Payments Guy' Is Running Messenger

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of the Insider Tech <keyword id="621414" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Newsletter">newsletter</keyword>, where we break down the biggest news in tech. Wait, this is Saturday, you say. Doesn't this newsletter come out on Wednesdays? Not anymore. We're changing things up and moving to weekends, so you can have more time to enjoy all the great articles with your morning coffee - including:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-sues-ken-paxton-texas-ag-trump-ban-account-retaliation-2021-3">Twitter's surprise counterattack against the Texas AG. </a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kalanick-cloudkitchens-startup-havoc-chicago-uber-tactics-2021-3"> Ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is at war again.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-iconiq-silicon-valley-finance-divesh-makan-2021-3">How Mark Zuckerberg's banker built a secret Silicon Valley empire.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rblx-roblox-going-public-direct-listing-ipo-stock-date-nyse-2021-2">Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki on why he opted for a direct listing.</a></li></ul>I'm your host Alexei Oreskovic. Hit me up with your thoughts, tips, rants and raves at <a href="mailto:aoreskovic@businessinsider.com">aoreskovic@businessinsider.com</a>.<h4><a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/4np/insider-tech">Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Get Insider Tech straight in your inbox by subscribing here.</a></h4>Soundtrack: This week's newsletter has been specially designed to be consumed while listening <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyH8t34GoRk">to William Onyeabor's "Ride on baby"</a><h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-sues-ken-paxton-texas-ag-trump-ban-account-retaliation-2021-3">Twitter's surprise counterattack, or, when Big Tech tried to hold politicians accountable</a></h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-sues-ken-paxton-texas-ag-trump-ban-account-retaliation-2021-3"></a>For more than a year now, tech companies have been America's favorite political punching bags; attractive targets for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-antitrust-hearing-recap-bezos-cook-zuckerberg-pichai-testimony-2020-7">politicians on the left and the right</a> to blame for all manner of misdeeds, both real and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-accuse-facebook-twitter-anti-conservative-bias-misinformation-2020-11">imagined</a>.So what happened on Monday was both unexpected and ironic: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-sues-ken-paxton-texas-ag-trump-ban-account-retaliation-2021-3">Twitter sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. </a><keyword id="6354616" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitter">Twitter</keyword> alleges Paxton abused his power in launching an investigation into <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-silicon-valley-banished-donald-trump-in-48-hours-2021-1">the social network's decision to ban Donald Trump</a>.<ul><li>Paxton issued investigative demands to Twitter, Google, Facebook and others in January, stating that the seemingly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-silicon-valley-banished-donald-trump-in-48-hours-2021-1">coordinated de-platforming of Trump after the Capitol riots</a>, were a violation of the First Amendment. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-sues-ken-paxton-texas-ag-trump-ban-account-retaliation-2021-3">Twitter's lawsuit against Paxton</a> points out that the First Amendment does not proscribe private businesses from censoring undesirable speech, it prevents the government from controlling speech - as Paxton, a government official, appears to be doing by interfering in Twitter's moderation policies.</li></ul>Twitter's riposte against the Texas AG follows a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dominion-voting-systems-machines-mike-lindell-giuliani-election-conspiracy-theory-2021-2">fusillade of lawsuits from voting machine companies</a> in response to election rigging claims.<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/everyone-dominion-smartmatic-suing-defamation-election-conspiracy-theories-2021-2">Dominion and Smartmatic have sued</a> Rudy Guiliani - Trump's personal lawyer - as well as Sidney Powell, an attorney who was one of the faces of the Trump campaign's legal team, on the grounds that the pair's claims that the companies' rigged the 2020 election were defamatory.</li><li>The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dominion-sues-sidney-powell-libel-billion-damages-2021-1">Dominion lawsuits seek a whopping $1.3 billion each in damages</a> against Giuliani and Powell, as well as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-dominion-lawsuit-losing-money-2021-2">$1.3 billion from Mike Lindell</a>, the MyPillow CEO.</li></ul>It's an amusing turn of events in the wake of all the - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/over-third-americans-believe-in-deep-state-conspiracy-trump-poll-2020-12">often very legitimate</a> - criticism of the tech industry's role spreading falsehoods and misinformation. Who would have thought tech companies would now be the ones fighting to keep others in check about sticking to the facts?Speaking of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/my-pillow-ceo-mike-lindell-trump-final-days-2021-1">MyPillow guy</a>, it seems the mustachioed CEO is expanding into the tech market <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-to-launch-site-combining-twitter-youtube-2021-3">and launching his own social network</a>. It will be called Vocl (not to be confused with Völkl, the famous German skis), and according to Lindell, will be a cross between Twitter and YouTube but also "not like anything you've ever seen."<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-parler-rose-from-obscurity-conservative-alternative-twitter-platform-2020-11">Parler, the "free speech" social network</a> that was taken offline by Amazon Web Services in February, is back online <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-denied-parler-on-app-store-rejected-report-2021-3">but not welcome in Apple's App Store</a></li><li>And Trump himself is apparently preparing a splashy return to social media, potentially as early as this Spring, that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-return-social-media-by-the-end-spring-advisor-says-2021-3">a Trump advisor said will represent as "a tectonic plate shift."</a></li></ul>Stay tuned over the next few months as we witness the birth of a new breed of right-wing, personality driven social media networks. <h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-iconiq-silicon-valley-finance-divesh-makan-2021-3">Zuck's Money Man</a> - and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kalanick-cloudkitchens-startup-havoc-chicago-uber-tactics-2021-3">Travis' new urban warfare</a></h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kalanick-cloudkitchens-startup-havoc-chicago-uber-tactics-2021-3"><div type="image" title="travis kalanick chicago disruption 4x3" height="1801" width="2400" msid="81485855" hostid="261"></div></a>We've got two great reads for you to sink your teeth into this weekend. The first is a look at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kalanick-cloudkitchens-startup-havoc-chicago-uber-tactics-2021-3">former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's</a> latest venture into so-called ghost kitchens, the shared kitchen facilities focused exclusively on takeout and delivery orders. As <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kalanick-cloudkitchens-startup-havoc-chicago-uber-tactics-2021-3">Meghan Morris reports</a>:For Kalanick, who served as Uber's CEO until 2017, CloudKitchens is a remarkable second act, cementing his reputation as someone with a unique understanding of how technology can transform business. It's also already causing clashes with local politicians and other groups, who see a repeat of the controversial playbook that Uber used to succeed.Read the full story here:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kalanick-cloudkitchens-startup-havoc-chicago-uber-tactics-2021-3">Travis Kalanick is at war again. The ex-Uber CEO's kitchen startup is angering local residents, and one neighborhood is at a 'boiling point.'</a></li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-iconiq-silicon-valley-finance-divesh-makan-2021-3"><div type="image" title="iconiq divesh makan connections 2x1" height="1250" width="1666" msid="81485856" hostid="261"></div></a>When Silicon Valley's elite need someone to manage their money they go to Divesh Makan, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-iconiq-silicon-valley-finance-divesh-makan-2021-3">the founder of Iconiq Capital</a>. The secretive firm's clients include everyone from Mark Zuckeberg and Sheryl Sandberg to Eddy Cue and Chamath Palihapitiya. Rob Price and Meghan Morris spent months reporting on Iconiq, looking at its expansion into <keyword id="6357097" type="DEFINITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Venture-Capital">venture capital</keyword> and real estate, its vaunted list of clients, and its mysterious founder. "He wants to be the most influential person in the world," one former colleague said of Makan. "If you think 'The Wizard of Oz,' he wants to be the guy behind the curtain that nobody sees ... the person controlling the pieces."You can read the full story here, including a list of Iconiq's celebrity clients and internal documents detailing all of the <keyword id="6362513" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="startups">startups</keyword> it's invested in:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-iconiq-silicon-valley-finance-divesh-makan-2021-3">Inside Iconiq: How Mark Zuckerberg's banker built a secret Silicon Valley empire and made billions</a></li></ul><h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rblx-roblox-going-public-direct-listing-ipo-stock-date-nyse-2021-2">Quote of the week: </a></h2><h3>"Our long-term investors are free to sell if they want. So we immediately launched into this very balanced market space."</h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rblx-roblox-going-public-direct-listing-ipo-stock-date-nyse-2021-2"><div type="image" title="Roblox CEO David Baszucki" height="942" width="1257" msid="81485857" hostid="261"></div></a>- Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rblx-roblox-going-public-direct-listing-ipo-stock-date-nyse-2021-2">tells Insider why the firm chose to list its shares on the NYSE via a direct listing</a> instead of by doing a traditional IPO.<h2>Snapshot: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sony-patents-new-system-converts-bananas-into-game-playstation-controllers-2021-3">This is not a banana</a></h2>When you're a video game console maker, everything looks like a controller.That seems to be the case for PlayStation maker Sony, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sony-patents-new-system-converts-bananas-into-game-playstation-controllers-2021-3">which recently was awarded a bizarre patent to turn bananas into game accessories</a>. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sony-patents-new-system-converts-bananas-into-game-playstation-controllers-2021-3"><div type="image" title="Screenshot of Sony's patent" height="1152" width="1788" msid="81485858" hostid="261"></div></a>The patent envisions using a system of cameras to magically turn plantain into peripheral. Why would you want to use a banana when your <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sony-ps5-playstation-5-review">PlayStation</a> comes with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-controllers-can-connect-to-ps4">a perfectly good controller?</a>According to Sony: "A limited number of peripherals may limit a player's ability to access all of a video game's features (e.g. multiplayer, VR, etc.). Even if a player is in possession of multiple peripherals, each of these may need to be charged regularly in order to be usable."The solution is to grab a banana, or really, any nearby household object. The patent describes using a pair of oranges (one in each hand), and suggests that mugs and pens could also benefit from the technology.<h2>Recommended Readings:</h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-org-chart-175-top-execs-satya-nadella-cloud-xbox-2021-3">We identified the 175 most powerful people at Microsoft. Here's our exclusive org chart.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-lab126-vesta-project-grows-but-insiders-are-concerned-2021-3">Amazon has over 800 people working on its secretive 'Vesta' home robot - but insiders are worried that it's a niche, gimmicky product that could fail</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oxide-ceo-pay-employees-startup-same-salary-bryan-cantrill-2021-3">I'm a cofounder of a Silicon Valley startup that pays everybody what we're paying ourselves: a flat $180,250. Here's why it's right for us.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-downfall-2021-3">Nikola founder Trevor Milton convinced the world he was the next Elon Musk. Insiders say a history of lies brought the billionaire down.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/zego-gig-economy-insurance-startup-raises-150m-dst-gc-2021-3">Zego is Europe's newest unicorn, valued at $1.1 billion after a $150 million round led by DST Global and General Catalyst</a><h2>Not necessarily in tech:</h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ashli-babbitt-profile-capitol-riot-qanon-death-2021-3">She voted for Obama and died for Trump. How QAnon turned Ashli Babbitt, an Iraq veteran, into a domestic 'terrorist.'</a>Thanks for reading, and if you like this newsletter, <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/4np/insider-tech">tell your friends and colleagues they can sign up here to receive it</a>.- Alexei

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