In his personal attacks, president-elect Donald Trump is pushing the limits of Twitter’s incitement rules, BuzzFeed suggests. “While Trump frequently airs grievances on Twitter, his decision to single out a lone citizen with a public denouncement raises questions about whether such behavior might run afoul of Twitter’s gauzy rules for conduct and its prohibitions against harassment and incitement,” it writes.

Microsoft has officially completed its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, the software giant said Thursday. “But,” as Fortune writes, “after getting all the required regulatory approvals and money transfers squared away [Microsoft CEO Satya] Nadella’s real work is just beginning: ensuring that buying LinkedIn was worth $26 billion to Microsoft shareholders.” Prior to Nedella’s reign, Microsoft has had a “pretty mixed record on large acquisitions.”

Facebook investors are accusing star venture capitalist Marc Andreessen of manipulating a change to the social giant’s corporate structure. While on a committee that oversaw the change, “Andreessen slipped [Facebook founder and CEO Mark] Zuckerberg information about their progress and concerns, helping Zuckerberg negotiate against them,” Bloomberg reports, citing court documents.

The European Commission just approved Microsoft’s pending acquisition of LinkedIn. “Microsoft expects the deal to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, which the company announced in June 2016, to close ‘in the coming days,’” ZDNet reports. “Regulators in the U.S., Canada, Brazil and South Africa already had cleared the deal.”

Facebook is circulating a survey asking users about “misleading language” in posts. TechCrunch calls the move “the latest indication that Facebook is facing up to what many see as its responsibility to get a handle on the fake news situation.” Notes TC: “The company uses surveys somewhat like this to test the general quality of the news feed, and it has used other metrics to attempt to define rules for finding clickbait and fake stories.”

Frédéric Filloux, former managing editor of Libération, doesn’t believe that Facebook will curb “fake news,” because it has no economic incentive to do so. “Facebook’s revenue system depends on a single parameter: page views. Pages views come from sharing. Which page criteria lead to the best sharing volumes? … Emotions. Preferably positive ones. The little one's smile, the cat looking at a horror movie, etc. Or the human story loaded with sentiment. Facebook is plainly honest about emotions being a dominant factor: I often heard its people telling social media editors: ‘Go for emotion. It gets the best engagement.’”

All is not well in Reddit land. “Reddit, in its goal to be a laissez-faire haven of (relatively) free expression, has been overrun by nationalist trolls,” Gizmodo reports. As such, “Its staff of volunteer moderators is losing hope in the site’s future.” Gizmodo interviewed five volunteer moderators to assess the situation.