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Facebook plans to use machine learning to sort its moderation queue prior to human review, prioritizing viral and potentially severe content first (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Oculus Quest 2 update adds support for 90Hz games; an Oculus Move app for tracking fitness metrics while playing is coming in the following week (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)

At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation (BuzzFeed News)

From 2020's Singles' Day sale, which was extended to 12 days from 24 hours previously, Alibaba reported sales of $56.4B while JD.com reported sales of ~$30.1B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Google patches two Chrome zero-days that were exploited in the wild, after tips from anonymous sources; Google has patched five Chrome zero-days in three weeks (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Facebook says political content makes up about 6% of what is seen on its platform and says CrowdTangle measures engagement but doesn't predict reach (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Patreon partners with Acast, which will host creators' podcasts to simplify distribution of subscriber-only episodes and give them access to Acast analytics (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Facebook removed seven pages, with over 2.45 million followers, tied to Steve Bannon for pushing misinformation about voter fraud and election results (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Apple Silicon Macs will run iOS apps but some developers, including Facebook, Google, and the developers of Candy Crush and Among Us, have already opted out (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Facebook and Google have been blocking political ads since Election Day, which Democrats say is hurting fundraising in the lead up to Georgia's upcoming runoffs (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)

Germany-based challenger bank Vivid Money, which lets customers create sub-accounts called pockets with their own IBAN numbers, raises $17.6M Series A (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

In a survey, Spotify hints at plans for a subscription podcast service; the survey describes at least four plans, ranging from $3 to $8 per month (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Sources: Apple and Sony each held talks about acquiring podcast network Wondery, which seeks a possible $300M-$400M sale; Spotify has pulled out of the running (Bloomberg)

Amazon is launching a rewards program for Flex drivers, offering perks such as a cashback Flex Debit Card and preferred scheduling for reserving shifts (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Twitter says Trump's special treatment around offensive or misleading content rule violations will expire in January if he loses the presidency (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

On election night and into Wednesday, Twitter and Facebook have continued to label inaccurate election posts from Trump and others (New York Times)

US Cyber Command and the NSA say they took actions against Iranian hackers in recent weeks to deter election interference, but did not specify actions taken (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post)

Looking to improve their AR and VR offerings, tech companies are hiring Hollywood's visual artists, who are tired of their industry's working conditions (R.T. Watson/Wall Street Journal)

Udacity raises $75M in debt funding as it says it is profitable following a pivot to enterprise services, with its education business bookings up 120% YoY in Q3 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

AWS introduces new GPU-equipped P4 instances, powered by Intel Cascade Lake processors and Nvidia's A100 Tensor Core GPUs, offering 2.5x DL performance over P3 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)