Everyone will knowwwww (Photo: flickr.com/jamiesrabbits)

Obama just signed into law a bill that makes it legal for Netflix to share what you watch on your Facebook page (provided you give them the okay, of course). [Gizmodo]

Yikes: CNET was forced to withdraw a "Best of CES" award by its parent company, CBS, which is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with Dish, the company that makes the product in question. [Buzzfeed]

Hey, Groupon stock is trading at double its all-time low! Before anyone breaks out the champagne, that's around $5.20. [TNW]

GM is hiring a thousand high-tech workers--software developers, database experts, etc.--for a new "innovation center" in a suburb of Atlanta. [Wall Street Journal]

“We’re fucked. These guys don’t want to take over our land—they want to come over and take our water and go back. They like where they are.” [AllThingsD]

Facebook says: Vote vote vote, like a baby stoat. (Photo: Cute Overload)

Brands are seeing clickthroughs from Facebook drop precipitously--just as the social network debuts the moneymaking Promoted Posts. Facebook, on the other hand, maintains its merely trying to keep from clogging up users' news feeds with irrelevant information. [Ars Technica]

Lest you think the social network is completely neglecting its civic duties, Facebook will reportedly remind everyone to vote on Tuesday. [CNET]

"This is the modern version of someone falsely screaming 'Fire!' in a crowded theater." That's probably the last thing Twitter troll @ComfortablySmug, caught spreading false information for the lulz during Hurricane Sandy, wanted to hear. [Wall Street Journal]

Macmillan Dictionaries are going online only, a decision sure to make sense to all but the most fiercely nostalgic. [TheNextWeb]

As connectivity is increasingly important in cars, the automaker GM is staffing up in IT. [MIT Technology Review]

Zuck says be relevant or else. (flickr.com/gpaumier)

If this is true, Facebook's advertising issues just got a little bit worse. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to "people familiar with the matter," GM is pulling paid ads from the social network, because their marketing execs have decided they're just not effective enough.

And here everyone was worried about the company's lack of a long-term mobile strategy. 

Says the Journal:

Asked about the move, GM marketing chief Joel Ewanick said the auto maker, "is definitely reassessing our advertising on Facebook, although the content is effective and important." Content refers to the unpaid Facebook pages many companies use to promote their products.

Now, it's worth noting that's not an outright confirmation. But it certainly isn't a denial, either.

According to the Journal's sources, GM spends about $10 million on Facebook ads. (Another $30 million or so goes to content for those unpaid pages, but that money doesn't go to Facebook.) That $10 mil is obviously just a drop in the bucket, revenue-wise, but the optics of losing the nation's third largest advertiser just days before going public are, it's fair to say, not great.

Like we said: call your grandpa.