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Here s what s on the Tuesday menu.

Facebook to allow users to trigger Safety Check after being criticized over when it decides to activate the feature. (WSJ)

ICYMI: The FBI is investigating foreign hacks into state election systems in Illinois and Arizona.

Meg Whitman hits the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton, starting in Denver today.

Federal appeals court dismisses Federal Trade Commission lawsuit against AT&T over accusations the network throttled data once its unlimited wireless customers usage reached certain levels, but AT&T could still face an FTC fine.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in response to a question Monday in Italy, said the social network would not become a media company.

Fallout over WhatsApp s data sharing with parent company Facebook: Privacy groups file complaint; European regulators looking into it. (WSJ)

Twitter to share ad revenue with individual video creators in an expansion of a program that was previously open only to companies, CNBC reports.

German interior minister visits Facebook s Berlin office, says social network should be more proactive about taking down racist and violent posts.

Kim Dotcom, whose file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI years ago, wins fight to live-stream court hearing on YouTube starting Wednesday.

 

Photo: Kim Dotcom arrives in court in Auckland, New Zealand on Dec. 23, 2015.  (Michael Bradley/AFP/Getty Images)

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