Facebook is readying a task force to prevent abuse related to major national elections in India, next year 2019. Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of global policy solutions, told told reporters said that the task force will work with India’s political parties and try to understand all the ways bad actors can manipulate the platform in India,” BuzzFeed reports.

The Verge reviews the latest Echo Show from Amazon, writing that it “addresses some of the faults of the original and improves upon the idea, without completely reinventing it.” As The Verge notes: “The new Echo Show has a bigger screen, better speaker system, and a nicer design.” What’s more “It’s also running new software that’s prettier and easier to interact with.”

Google is adding automated closed captions to its Google Slides presentation program, Venture Beat reports. “The feature is rolling out globally from today; however, it will be available in U.S. English only at first,” it writes. “The new feature is broadly designed to help those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, and the general idea is that those who are presenting to a roomful of people can augment the written words that are already part of their slides.”

Microsoft’s LinkedIn unit has acquired Glint, which TechCrunch describes as “a startup that provides employment engagement services for businesses and other organizations.” Although financial terms of the deal were not revealed, Glint previously raised roughly $80 million. “The team from Glint will join LinkedIn and continue to work as a salient entity within it under current Glint CEO and founder Jim Barnett,” TC reports.

Snap is shooting for full-year profitability in 2019, Cheddar reports, citing an internal memo. What’s more, “In the lengthy memo to Snap employees, dated September 26, [CEO Evan] Spiegel bluntly admitted that Snapchat ‘rushed our redesign, solving one problem but creating many others,” Cheddar writes.

Instagram is reportedly prototyping a new privacy setting that would allow it to share users’ location history with Facebook. “That means your exact GPS coordinates collected by Instagram, even when you’re not using the app, would help Facebook to target you with ads and recommend you relevant content,” TechCrunch reports. “This is sure to exacerbate fears that Facebook will further exploit Instagram now that its founders have resigned.”

Rejecting the reporting in a new Bloomberg BusinessWeek story, Apple is denying that Chinese chips were secretly planted inside of some of its servers. “Apple disputes the report and says that it’s not under any sort of agreement not to talk about such an attack,” CNBC writes. As Apple insists in a new statement: “Apple has never found malicious chips in our servers.”

Most of the accounts spreading fake news on Twitter during the election are still active, Nieman Lab reports, citing a new report from Knight. Worse yet, “These top fake and conspiracy news outlets on Twitter are largely stable,” according to the reports. Notes Nieman Lab: “The findings are consistent with recent research by Matthew Gentzkow, Hunt Allcott, and Chuan Yu that found that, while engagements with fake news on Facebook have decreased, shares of fake news on Twitter have increased since the election.”

Facebook is testing a redesign of Nearby Friends that looks a lot like Snap Map, TechCrunch reports. For one, “It replaces the list view of the neighborhoods and cities friends are in with a map that groups friends together by city,” it writes. “A ‘view list’ button opens up the former homescreen, though in both views you still can only see a friend’s approximate location in a neighborhood or city, not their exact coordinates.”

As a result of changes to its political ad policy, Facebook is apparently blocking dozens of LGBT-themed ads. “Its screening system (which includes automated and human moderators) deemed them political,” Engadget reports. “Most didn’t contain advocacy or obvious political leanings -- the only common link was a reference to LGBT keywords.”