The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Discussion of this story dominated my feeds on Sunday. One, the people in my feeds mostly like to see the president made to look foolish. Apple will start removing thousands of mobile games that lack government approval from its App Store in China next month. The move is meant to curb the spread of misleading photos and images.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

India and China are in a conflict over a disputed border in the Himalayas that recently resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers. Trending up : Facebook is updating its News Feed algorithm to prioritize original reporting. prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India.”. Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Blending talking-head interviews with some well known Silicon Valley apostates and fictional, after-school special-style dramatizations of what happens when Johnny and Janey scroll through feeds all day, the film presents itself as an urgent warning about our modern condition. I’m more than a little sympathetic to these concerns.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

My Twitter feed melted down over these comments on Sunday. The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. But these criticisms are fair, and worth keeping in mind as it invites more people in.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

In its lunatic whipsawing between companies, issues, and conspiracy theories , Wednesday’s antitrust hearing resembled nothing so much as an endlessly scrolling social media feed. Every question shouted, every answer interrupted, nothing truly ventured, and very little learned. Polarized and polarizing. Another day in 2020. (I’m Here’s one.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

That’s one reason why the video is still technically allowed on Facebook — it’s just placed under a fact-checking warning, and will not get wide distribution in the feed. Apple is facing its toughest environment in China in years amid the decline of US-China relations. They know how to do the right thing, and they can.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

But the conversations stalled because taking down QAnon-related groups, pages and accounts could feed into the movement’s conspiracy theory that social media companies are trying to silence them, the people said. Iris Deng, Yujie Xue in Shenzhen and Josh Ye / South China Morning Post ). So this feels like useful context to share.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Instagram, however, doesn’t have the same sort of two-tabbed, scrollable feed, like TikTok offers today. The move to more quickly roll out Reels to more markets comes as TikTok has come under intense scrutiny for its ties to China. In a year’s time we’ll have something to say, whether it’s gonna be, “it’s amazing!”

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Because it’s going to be worse – we’re going to have to give China billions of dollars for the privilege of having TikTok operate on US soil.”. As recently as April, Zoom was caught rerouting external video calls through China , a behavior far more serious than anything we’ve seen from TikTok.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Platforms do not disclose, for example, the data they collect, the testing they do, how their algorithms order news feeds and recommendations, political ad information, or moderation rules and actions.” TikTok and WeChat are being lumped together in the Trump’s administration’s attempt to crack down on national security threats from China.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It bubbled to the top of the feeds, and inspired many anguished comments. China emphasized its power in the TikTok sale, saying it has the right to approve or block the sale of technology abroad. Facebook Watch introduced a new feature called “Your Topics” that will allow you to further personalize your feed. Which, come on.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

If a country where the median voter leans to the political left has a News Feed occupied by links from the far right, that could cause concern. Hegeman, who took over the News Feed in 2018 after Adam Mosseri left to run Instagram, showed up on the timeline with a six-part response culminating in a (beautifully designed) graphic.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

For You is the first thing you see when you open TikTok, and it reliably serves up a feed of personalized videos that leaves you saying “I’ll just look at one more of these” for 20 minutes longer than you intended. Huang told us that when a new user opens TikTok, the algorithm fetches eight popular but diverse videos to show them.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

The trade war with China shows no signs of ending — or even de-escalating — this year. The “Short Videos” feature has a dedicated section within the news feed. And yet — how likely does it seem to you that ByteDance will ultimately have that option? The company hasn’t caught a break on the regulatory front in recent memory.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

We would all benefit, I think, from having greater insight into how social networks choose what to show us in our feeds. In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different products,” he wrote. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

But the TikTok challenge promises to be much harder — the company will have to somehow recreate ByteDance’s powerful algorithmic feed , design a steady stream of new features and experiences to keep influencers engaged, and fend off fierce competition from Facebook, Snapchat, and a host of TikTok clones along the way.

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