10 things in tech you need to know today, November 6

Amazon is said to have
selected two locations for its HQ2.
Reuters

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Tuesday.

1. 
   Facebook suspended 115 accounts the day before the US midterm
   elections. The accounts were brought to
   Facebook’s attention by law enforcement, who suspected links to
   “foreign entities.”
2. 
   Amazon plans to set up 2 different locations for its HQ2, in
   New York and Virginia. Amazon is said to have
   selected two cities as the site of its second headquarters: The
   Long Island City section of Queens, New York, and the Crystal
   City area of Arlington, Virginia, The New York Times reported
   on Monday evening.
3. 
   Facebook pulled Donald Trump’s controversial immigrant ad for
   violating its advertising policy on “sensational
   content.” After Fox News and NBC pulled the
   ad which was widely condemned as racist, Facebook decided to
   block it from paid distribution.
4. 
   Apple’s new MacBook Air and 2018 MacBook Pros physically
   disconnect the microphone when you close the lid to stop
   hackers from eavesdropping on your conversations.
   The cameras on the latest MacBook Air and MacBook Pros aren’t
   disconnected, however, as the “field of view is completely
   obstructed when the lid is closed.”
5. 
   Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff got into a Twitter beef with
   another exec over a controversial measure tackling San
   Francisco’s homelessness crisis. Proposition C is
   a ballot measure in San Francisco, California, that would tax
   the city’s largest corporations to provide more funding to
   homeless services.
6. 
   A new app can show you the voting history of your friends and
   coworkers, and even which political party they’re registered
   with. The app, called Vote With Me, provides
   information about the elections taking place in your district,
   lets you know whether a race is tight, and shows you how to
   prepare for Election Day.
7. 
   Electric scooter hire is coming to the UK under a deal struck
   by $2 billion startup Bird. Bird is the first
   electric scooter company to launch in the UK, beating
   competitors like Lime and Uber to the punch.
8. 
   Twitter is struggling to curb fake Elon Musk accounts promoting
   cryptocurrency scams. The scammers are hacking a
   verified account, changing the display name to “Elon Musk,”
   copying his profile photo, and tweeting about a fake
   cryptocurrency giveaway.
9. 
   Amazon is launching a new delivery program and hiring thousands
   of drivers, with a warning against “peeing in bottles,” a
   source told Business Insider. Amazon is hiring its
   own fleet of full-time drivers to deliver packages to Prime
   customers, having previously relied on delivery services
   provided by UPS, FedEx, the US Postal Service, and contractors.
10. 
    A Chinese tech billionaire has been accused of plying a student
    with drink and then forcing himself on her during a trip to the
    US. The Minneapolis Star Tribune published a long
    account describing a student’s rape allegation against Liu
    Qiangdong, the billionaire founder of Chinese tech firm JD.com.

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