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| Facebook takes (small) steps to improve its content policies as advertisers join a broad boycott, founder Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital and Waze gets a new look. Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 29, 2020. | | | |
| In a live-streamed segment of the company's weekly all-hands meeting, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new measures to fight voter suppression and misinformation. At the heart of the policy changes is an admission that the company will continue to allow politicians and public figures to disseminate hate speech that does, in fact, violate Facebook's own guidelines — but it will add a label to denote they're remaining on the platform because of their "newsworthy" nature. This announcement comes as advertiser momentum against the social network’s content and monetization policies continues to grow, with Unilever and Verizon (which owns TechCrunch) both committing to pull advertising from Facebook. Read more | |  Image Credits: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images / Getty Images | | |
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| Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital to work on "a new project that will support a generation of founders in tech and beyond," the firm said in a statement to TechCrunch. According to Axios, Ohanian is leaving Initialized to work more closely on pre-seed efforts. Read more | | | |
| The new look is much more colorful, and also foregrounds the ability for individual drivers to share their current emotions with Moods, a set of user-selectable icons (with an initial group of 30) that can reflect how you're feeling as you're driving. Read more | |  | | |
| Amazon warehouse workers in Germany are striking for 48 hours this week, to protest conditions that have led to COVID-19 infections among fellow employees. Strikes began today at six warehouses and are set to continue through the end of day Tuesday. Read more | | | |
| Normally, the government would process tens of thousands of visa applications and renewals in October at the start of its fiscal year, but President Trump’s executive order all but guarantees new visas won't be granted until 2021. Four TechCrunch staffers analyzed the president's move in an attempt to see what it portends for the tech industry, the U.S. economy and our national image. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | |  Image Credits: Catherine Falls Commercial / Getty Images | | |
| Unlike other rush initiatives undertaken by the company once the virus hit, however, the forthcoming Apple Watch handwashing app wasn't built overnight. The feature was the result of "years of work," VP of Technology Kevin Lynch told TechCrunch. Read more | | | |
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