10 things in tech you need to know today

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.

1. Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery team is so secretive that employees are often forced to use fake employer names in public. The secretive culture has sometimes backfired and when the team has been testing its drones on private property and were frequently interrupted by law enforcement.
2. Facebook content moderators joined Facebook employees in revolt over how the company handles posts by President Trump. On Monday, a group of former and current content moderators penned a blog post on Medium supporting the protesting employees and criticizing CEO Mark Zuckerberg's stance.
3. Amazon has filed a noncompete lawsuit in May against Brian Hall, a former cloud marketing vice president who took a similar job at Google Cloud. The company argues Hall's move places its confidential information at risk.
4. SpaceX investor Baillie Gifford has invested $35 million into flying taxi maker Lilium. Lilium hopes to offer cheap flying taxi rides by 2025.
5. A variant of remdesivir, one of the most promising treatments for COVID-19, has for more than a year been sold as a treatment for sick cats via a black market connected to big Facebook groups. The transactions do not take place on Facebook's platform, but large cat owner groups have banded together to connect buyers to sellers, and attempt to screen the drug for purity.
6.  Apple and Google have trained their virtual assistants to rebut the phrase 'All lives matter.' Training their voice assistants appears to be part of the broader public messaging on Black Lives Matter by the major tech companies, all of which have issued statements supporting the movement.
7. Twitter is adding fact-checking labels on tweets that link 5G with the coronavirus. The label reads: "Get the facts about COVID-19" and links to news articles, official sources, and tweets debunking the theory.
8. The $2 billion SoftBank-backed insurance startup Lemonade has filed to go public. In its registration statement, the company revealed ballooning losses alongside top-line growth. 
9. 3M is accusing an Amazon seller of hiking the cost of its masks by as much as 20 times while  protective medical equipment was in short-supply amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company has filed 12 such lawsuits as part of ongoing efforts to combat fraud, it said. 
10. Reddit moderators on Monday penned a letter calling on the platform to add a policy that explicitly bans racism and hate speech. The platform has a long history of providing a home to hateful rhetoric and hate-based communities after being founded 15 years ago as a place for free expression.

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