A social-media status report, with Barack Obama, John Cusack, Conan O’Brien and Joss Whedon. Source: NYT > Business – LAURA M. HOLSON
With Interest: The Week in Business: Facebook Wants to Be Your ‘Digital Living Room,’ and Tesla to Unveil the Model Y
Plus, disappointing job numbers, Mario Batali is officially out of the restaurant business and Brexit approaches peak mayhem. Source: NYT > Business – CHARLOTTE COWLES
The Man Deciding Facebook’s Fate
Joseph J. Simons, the F.T.C. chairman, is a newbie on data privacy policy. But he is overseeing the biggest privacy case in the agency’s history. Source: NYT > Business – CECILIA KANG
Bits: The Week in Tech: Facebook’s Privacy Pivot (Business Model Not Included)
The social network has laid out plans for making a shift toward private messaging. Less clear is how it will turn a profit from it. Source: NYT > Business – JAMIE CONDLIFFE
The New New World: Mark Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Emulate China’s WeChat. Can It?
China’s WeChat messaging app offers clues as to how Facebook may carry out its shift toward private messaging. But whether Facebook can pull the change off is another question. Source: NYT > Business – LI YUAN
After Facebook’s Scandals, Mark Zuckerberg Says He’ll Shift Focus to Private Sharing
The Facebook chief executive said the next wave of social networking would be to enable private and encrypted discussions. Source: NYT > Business – MIKE ISAAC