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Mobile Minutes: Uber displaces homeless; Silicon Valley in politics; Twitter’s exec exile; Facebook’s media problem

Scoop: Security guards working at Uber’s San Francisco facility for self-driving cars dismantle a nearby tent city, according to homeless people who were displaced.
Read more at CNET

Silicon Valley reckons with its political power
The industry had a monumental 2016, but now it has to deal with the Trump disruption.
Read more at Bloomberg

Some of the recent executive departures from Twitter could be ‘involuntary,’ Cantor Fitzgerald says
This week Twitter lost two more of its senior executives — chief technology officer Adam Messinger and VP of product Josh McFarland — and a note published by investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald says they could have been involuntary as part of a management restructuring by CEO Jack Dorsey.
Read more at Business Insider

Zuckerberg: Facebook isn’t a ‘traditional’ media company
SAN FRANCISCO — Is Facebook a media company or a technology company?
Read more at USA Today