Washington Post: Discord staff, moderators, and researchers say its rules and culture let a racist and antisemitic community flourish, after the April classified documents leak  —  After white supremacists used Discord to plan the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, company executives promised to clean up the service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Munich-based Tacto, which uses AI to help companies optimize their supply chains and cut costs by ~10%, raised €50M led by Sequoia and Index Ventures  —  Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures led a €50 million ($54 million) funding round for German startup Tacto Technology GmbH … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: BeReal plans to add Behind the Scenes, an iOS Live Photo-style feature, and RealGroups, for smaller groups; Pew estimates 13% of US teens age 13-17 use BeReal  —  The up-and-coming social app BeReal continues to vie for users’ attention with more and more bells and whistles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Li Yuan / New York Times: A profile of Li Ying, a Chinese graduate who used his X account to tell the world about protests in 2022 and now lives in exile after losing his livelihood  —  Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year’s protests.  Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his defiance. Lees verder op Tech Meme