Recode Daily: Facebook employees are outraged by the public support of Brett Kavanaugh

Hundreds of Facebook employees have expressed their indignation about the decision of one of its most senior international politicians to support Brett Kavanaugh, a Supreme Court candidate, at his hearing last week. "I recognize that this moment is extremely painful – both internally and externally," wrote Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of global public policy, in an apologetic note to Facebook's staff. The surprise appearance of Kaplan has aroused anger and shock among many Facebook employees, some of whom said on internal bulletin boards that they acted as if it was an endorsement of Facebook itself. At a staff meeting, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that Kaplan was a close friend of Kavanaugh and that he had not broken any company rules. Another staff meeting is planned today to limit the damage. [Mike Isaac / The New York Times]

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Apple and Amazon aggressively push back the Bloomberg Businessweek report That said, Chinese spies used compromised servers with tiny, unreliable chips to infiltrate big American companies. Apple has made the rare decision to publish on its public relations site a message titled "What Businessweek is Misled About About Apple," stating, "We can be very clear: Apple does not have a problem. has never found malicious chips, "hardware tampering" or intentional vulnerabilities on any server. "Amazon's publication titled" Clearing It Up "in the News. Bloomberg Businessweek's Wrong Article. "Denials leave little room for maneuver, is not it?" Welcome to the troubled world of national security reporting, "wrote TechCrunch's Zack Whittaker. [Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch]

In the latest version of the electric scooter wars, Bird provides his brand scooters on demand at home or at the users desk. in Los Angeles, Nashville, Atlanta, Baltimore, Austin and Salt Lake City. The company, which operates in more than 100 cities and has recently announced 10 million scooter outings since its launch about a year ago, has also launched custom-made scooters called Bird Zero, offering 60% longer battery life. , increased stability and durability, as well as an integrated digital technology. the screen to display the speed. [Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch]

The Trunk newspaper editor is changing its name and is now known as Tribune Publishing Co., killing one of the most ridiculous name changes in the history of the company. The new / old name will come into effect on Tuesday when the stock symbol of the company on the Nasdaq stock exchange will be replaced by TPCO by TRNC. Tribune, which publishes the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and New York Daily News newspapers, dumped its 150-year-old name in June 2016 in favor of Trunk – short for Tribune Online Content. The name was quickly joked on TV and online late at night; Comedian John Oliver said it sounded like "a stack of printed newspapers thrown into a dumpster." [Gerry Smith / Bloomberg]

JFK New York Airport has released the first details of an ambitious $ 13 billion review. The construction, which includes two major international terminals and all modern comforts, is expected to begin in 2020 and be completed by 2025. Although the New York and New Jersey Port Authorities operate the airport, its six terminals are each managed by different airlines or terminals operators; As a result, JFK is notorious for its lack of communication or cooperation between its partners. The Port Authority predicts that JFK will serve 80 million passengers a year by 2035, up from nearly 60 million last year. [Patrick McGeehan / The New York Times]

The increasing use of legal marijuana in the United States, Canada and elsewhere will not reduce sales of beer or wine"We do not see any evidence, particularly in … the legal states, of cannibalizing alcohol," said Robert Sands, CEO of Constellation Brands, which includes Corona beer among its customers. Tags. Last year, the company acquired a 10% stake in the Canadian cannabis start-up Canopy Growth, which generated investment gains of more than $ 1 billion. Recreational marijuana will become legal in Canada this month and Constellation recently invested an additional $ 4 billion in Canopy; Sands said he wanted to quickly position himself on what he thinks is a global market worth "hundreds of billions of dollars." [Jennifer Maloney and Kimberly Chin / The Wall Street Journal]

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