Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. . A government can’t just come in and decide to print more like the U.S. government might decide to print more U.S. So don’t be shy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. A government can’t just come in and decide to print more like the U.S. government might decide to print more U.S. So don’t be shy.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

Like, forgetting for this sentence that these are not straightforwardly distinct things, if we were to force a fixed ratio of thinking/fooming to doing/implementing/enjoying, what should we expect the marginal "costs"/"benefits" to look like, and a shift in what direction away from the fixed ratio (and how big a shift) would that suggest?

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Apple declined to comment on the decision, but told Pierce its mistake was in ever permitting Hey into the App Store to begin with. Trending sideways : Google banned far-right websites ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform over racist comments posted on the sites. Governing. ? Cat Zakrzewski / The Washington Post ).

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

Twitter’s product is incredibly important — it is a flashpoint of interest and controversy for politicians and regulators around the world, and it often seems like politicians in our own government don’t know the difference between Twitter and real life. So we’re approaching it as holistically as we can. That makes sense when it’s text.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Governing. ? Turkish lawmakers passed legislation requiring social media platforms with over one million daily users, including Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube , to open offices in Turkey and comply with government demands to block or remove content hosted on their platforms. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing A.K.P.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Among those comments: “defamation lawsuits should be easier to pursue.”) She later returned, only for the company to say she would step aside later this year after her comments about the media on Instagram.). The employees made their comments at a time of increasing activism inside workplaces. Governing. ?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

government workers as a senior Trump advisor; and investor worries that politics are distracting the worlds richest man from tending to his cash cow. Tesla and Musk did not respond to requests for comment. Musk spent more than $250 million supporting Trump and now serves as his top advisor on slashing government staff and regulations.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Among the challenges: it’s hard to get people to download these apps; there has been no endorsement of the approach — or coherent response strategy — from the federal government; and it’s unclear that Bluetooth-based approaches have been all that effective even in countries where COVID-19 is better under control. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Trending down : Zoom missed its own deadline on releasing a transparency report that will tell the public how many government demands for user data it has received. Governing. ? Send us tips, comments, questions, and fair pay for Reddit moderators: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. So I’m not holding my breath.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

By now, almost everyone accepts that social platforms have a role to play in protecting our democracy — as do average citizens, journalists, and the government itself. One way to view Facebook’s announcements on Thursday is as an acknowledgement that when it comes to protecting our democracy, in 2020 the US government cannot be counted upon.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We cannot comment on pending litigation, but we rely on a combination of humans and technology to remove content that violates our Community Guidelines, and we are committed to supporting the people who do this vital and necessary work,” a spokesman said. Governing. ? I asked YouTube what it made of the new lawsuit. “We Talk to us.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

The bot farm broadcasts coordinated likes, comments, and shares to make it seem as if a lot of people are excited or upset about something like a volatile stock, a global travesty, or celebrity gossipeven though theyre not. On TikTok, you used to be able to see how many times a specific hashtag was shared or commented on, says Alexander.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Two, Twitter was slow to respond to the threat, which persisted well beyond the company’s initial comments that it was taking the issue seriously. Governing. ? That people with a lot of power, that people in government positions, get a different kind of voice, a different thing that they can say. Mary Hui / Quartz ). Talk to us.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

She declined to comment on the specific examples cited in this article. I’d click the YouTube [link] whether it was listed first or seventh on the screen b/c I trust YouTube more than those other sites,” writes one of the commenters on the Journal story. So far the US government has not formally stated its case. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

In this year’s Verge Tech Survey , a national poll found that 72 percent of respondents believe Facebook has too much power, and 56 percent said the government should break up tech companies if they control too much of the economy. Governing. ? And in some crucial areas, public opinion does not appear to be on the company’s side.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. Governing. ? TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example. Maya Tribbitt / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

I won’t offer too much editorial comment on this line of thinking now — I want to see what Zuckerberg says at the hearing — but it really is notable what a gift TikTok has been to Facebook as it prepares for these hearings. Governing. ? Send us tips, comments, questions, and hearing delays: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

At the root of this concern is that no matter what ByteDance says about TikTok’s independence from Chinese governance, ultimately it must do whatever the country’s brutal, repressive authoritarian regime demands. Governing. ? That makes it hard for high-risk users to feel entirely safe, no matter what the app does. What sort of data?

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

The company says it’s rolling out the ability to delete up to 25 comments at once and also block or restrict multiple accounts at the same time. Governing. ? The move escalates Silicon Valley’s battle with Washington at time when government officials are still threatening to break up large companies. And finally. Talk to us.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Governing. ? Three days after surveillance firm NSO Group announced its new human rights policy, a likely Moroccan government agency hacked the phone of a human rights defender using NSO malware. The UK government abandoned plans to build its own contact tracing app, after spending three months and millions of pounds on the technology.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Governing. ? tweets, comments, posts, etc.) But documents show the company tried to sell the controversial technology to the government for years, including to the Drug Enforcement Administration in late 2017. Send us tips, comments, questions, and your political ad preferences: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

In November I wrote about how Congress and the Council for Foreign Investment in the United States were putting the squeeze on ByteDance — and about how the company’s past run-ins with the Chinese government had created a credibility gap with US regulators. Governing. ? Total cases in the US: More than 1,987,800. Talk to us.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

I don’t think so, and while encouraging law enforcement to investigate the case arguably represents an abuse of presidential power, our nation’s founders invested the responsibility for reining in a wayward chief executive not with private companies but with the other two branches of government. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

McConnell told the Post he would have no further comment. Governing. ? This group has been linked by security firms to the Chinese government. Facebook started labeling media outlets that are “wholly or partially under the editorial control of their government,” following an announcement of the policy in 2019.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The group has been linked to more than a dozen violent incidents over the last year, including a train hijacking ; last month, a QAnon supporter rammed a car into a government residence in Canada. Governing. ? Taiwan accused Chinese hackers of infiltrating government agencies to try and access sensitive data on citizens.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Governing. ? The Chinese government, possibly in concert with Russia, manipulated former CNN star Larry King into spreading disinformation through a fake interview with a Russian journalist. Send us tips, comments, questions, and those good TikToks: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Institute for Local Self-Reliance).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Governing. ? Alexandra Alper at Reuters has more: “We are heartened that this deal still requires government approval, and if reports indicating this proposed deal will retain links to ByteDance or other Chinese-controlled entities, we strongly urge the administration to reject such a proposal on national security grounds,” he added. [.].

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The Ratio. ?? Governing. ? The move comes as ByteDance comes under increasing scrutiny in the United States over how the Chinese government may be accessing Americans’ user data. On the other hand: will government requests for Google Docs data put protesters at risk ? Caroline O’Donovan / BuzzFeed ). Chen Du / PingWest ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Zhang wrote: “In the three years I’ve spent at Facebook, I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions,” wrote Zhang, who declined to talk to BuzzFeed News. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Governing. ? Adi Robertson at The Verge has the story: Restricted tweets can’t be liked or replied to , although they can be retweeted with a comment. Anti-vaxxers have posted violent, horrific comments and death threats to vaccine advocates on the platform. The company revealed that activities tied to its businesses emitted 51.17

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

My Twitter feed melted down over these comments on Sunday. Governing. ? The Chinese government could also nix it. government ban also remains. The order asks companies with large federal government contracts to choose between the continuing to take hundreds of millions of dollars or offering the trainings.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

We are confident that a Walmart and Microsoft partnership would meet both the expectations of US TikTok users while satisfying the concerns of US government regulators.”. Governing. ? Send us tips, comments, questions, and TikToks set inside a Walmart: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Election Integrity Partnership).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In 2019 he told Josh Constine he wanted to find “ the next wave ,” in a comment I took to mean that he had no plans to start another social network. Governing. ? Systrom didn’t respond to a request for comment. Big Tech companies shared the latest from their work with the US government on election integrity.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

It’s worth pointing out that many of these initiatives could have — and should have — been aided by the federal government. “If Governing. ? The tech giants already suspended requests for data from the Hong Kong government after the law was announced Monday night. It will be in Congress. Zoe Schiffer. Sa m Shead / CNBC).

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Governing. ? The Indian government banned TikTok , along with 58 other apps developed by Chinese companies. About a year into the antitrust probe of Apple , lawyers at the Justice Department are looking into the rules that govern the App Store. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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