This Week in Tech 794

AOC Streams Among US, iPhone Reviews, RIP Quibi

• Politicians go gamer: AOC streams Among Us, Biden's Animal Crossing Island
• How campaigning on social media is changing
• Did social media break democracy?
• Bot orders $18,752 of McFlurrys every minute
• iPhone 12 reviews are in - the flat edges are cool, 5G is not.
• Quibi fails after only 6 months
• Google Stadia developer says streamers should be paying game developers for the right to stream their games
• DOJ sues Google over antitrust
• Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on November 17th
• The US government goes after Section 230
• Judge says the US government can't ban WeChat
• Edward Snowden gets permanent residence in Russia
• RIAA takes down 18 GitHub projects for downloading YouTube videos
• Adobe Max introduces controversial AI filters
• iPhone 12 - are you skipping this year?
• Xbox Series x or Playstation 5?
• The coolest electric cars

*Correction*: Adobe does not sanction the "Make Her Smile" video. Attributing this video to Adobe was an error on TWiT's part.

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Links

• A tsunami of iPhone 12 reviews
• The iPhone 12 is expected to be the most successful since the iPhone 6 and Analyst Ming-Chi Guo releases his latest report
• Justice Department Files Long-Awaited Antitrust Suit Against Google - WSJ
• Bill Barr's Google 'Antitrust Inquiry' Is A Weaponized Farce | Techdirt
• Google Locks In Search Monopoly With $1 Billion to Carriers
• How Mark Zuckerberg Learned Politics
• Former Facebook employees describe tests of News Feed algorithm changes
• Twitter will make it harder to retweet before the U.S. election
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Streams On Twitch With Hasan Piker And Pokimane, Draws Over 430,000 Viewers
• Among Us: You're the Impostor - The New York Times
• The official Biden HQ in Animal Crossing has poll booths, ice cream, and no malarkey
• Blatant Hypocrite Ajit Pai Decides To Move Forward With Bogus, Unconstitutional Rulemaking On Section 230 | Techdirt
• Senate Republicans' BS Talking Points on Their Section 230 Bill, Debunked
• Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Senate Republicans vote to subpoena Facebook and Twitter CEOs
• US judge stands firm in decision to block ban on WeChat | Engadget
• Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg confirm Quibi is shutting down
• (One day earlier) Quibi apps arrive on Apple TV, Android TV, and Fire TV
• RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos | ZDNet
• Bot orders $18,752 of McSundaes every 30 min. to find if machines are working
• mcbroken
• On the Week of the Election, Social Media Must Go Dark
• Adobe can change a sky, add a smile in seconds with Photoshop
• Social Peacocking and the Shadow
• The real truth is the streamers should be paying the developers and publishers of the games they stream.