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Discord has turned into a virtual trade floor with memes, stonks, and chaos

The Verge

The Reddit community r/WallStreetBets has turned to Discord in recent weeks to organize and communicate in real time, as it seeks to force hedge funds into losing millions of dollars on their bets against struggling retail companies like GameStop and AMC. It’s a hugely popular app, with more than 100 million monthly active users. audio meme.

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IRL is a new social network taking on Facebook groups

The Verge

The startup has already had to battle spam, and it's just now starting to ramp up hiring for its trust and safety team. It plans to give group moderators adjustable tools for proactively weeding out bad messages through Hive, an automated content moderation platform that Reddit also uses.

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Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate

TechCrunch

In the lead-up to the court hearing the case, a host of amicus briefs emphasized its far-reaching implications: from nonprofits ( Wikimedia Foundation ) to community content moderation ( Reddit and Reddit moderators ) and small businesses and startups ( Engine ).

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Apple’s $64 billion-a-year App Store isn’t catching the most egregious scams

The Verge

While Apple doesn’t share “top grossing” charts for the App Store any more (that seems to have died with the introduction of iOS 11 in 2017), companies like SensorTower still publicly share that data. Chart by AppFigures. If they simply looked at the top charts and scanned for scams they’d find most of them.

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Pinterest Is Being Strangled by AI Slop

Futurism

Put simply, it's AI-generated SEO spam at its finest. one dispirited netizen exclaimed in a Reddit post. Cunningham shows a screenshot of an impressive Pinterest Analytics chart,which he says showcases a steep uptick in his pins' success as the result of his AI use. I was looking for hair color inspo and it was all AI.