Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When I joined the Blackbaud Arts and Cultural Solutions team, I stumbled across social posts from the National Aquarium of New Zealand and have been following them ever since. I found this so amusing that I immediately shared with a colleague who commented that he didn’t realize he needed penguin drama in his life until he heard about this.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation. I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. Comment on the post and thank the writer for the mention. Test for What Works.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cannabis has a complicated history in the island nation. But young smokers often don’t have an idea about what is good or not, so they search on Reddit or join Facebook groups to find information and connect with fellow smokers, Janith said. said Sanjana, “In the past, some people commented against using cannabis.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The action called Battle for the Net was intended to stimulate more comments to the FCC before the September 15 comment deadline. They teamed up with big Internet companies like Etsy, Vimeo, reddit, Kickstarter, and Netflix. 777,000 new comments were filed with the FCC. The campaign got over a million Facebook shares.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Some of those images were released on sites like Reddit, Imgur, and 4chan in an attempt to sell them for bitcoin , the virtual currency, and then shared far and wide. The National Cyber Security Alliance has myriad resources for individuals, teachers, and businesses on staying safe online. Log in to share them in the comments.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It is aggregating all the various digital inclusion projects in the country and also working on big national deals with telecom companies for reduced rate broadband Internet. Please log in to comment on this blog post. Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. If we’d provided people with somewhere to comment or share their thoughts–or even to suggest how the donations should be used–we’d have had more raw material for the campaign and could play back these comments to the online community that was discussing it.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

If the audience looks at immigration through a family values lens and the campaign is talking about it as a national security issue, the post may fall completely flat. Had the campaign known how to talk about the issue using the same frame as its audience, they would likely generate much more engagement. Your Audience’s Content is King.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Italy’s national TV station called him. Since he isn’t well known, we’ve decided to withhold his name; he did not reply to The Verge ’s requests for comment.). If Threes was like reading a book, 2048 was the equivalent of scrolling Reddit. Then he watched it balloon to 13,000 active users. Interview requests started coming in.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We dont have digital data for a lot of human intelligence, because people werent valuing the people who produce those books, or the people who produce that artit didnt get digitized, didnt get celebrated, didnt receive comments on Reddit or Facebook. And its extremely easy to use AI tools to find patterns in that kind of activity.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 13, 2025

Imagine Reddit with no critical comments or TikTok stripped of political satire. Conversely, some states may seek to limit moderation efforts to preserve free speech, creating conflicting obligations for platforms that operate nationally.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Within hours, someone had inevitably opened a Reddit forum to locate the monolith. A Utah DPS public affairs officer didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the supposed location of the monolith. “I And the evidence for its location, put forward by Reddit user Tim Slane, is strong.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Jack, who spoke on condition of a pseudonym (as did every ex-federal worker in this story), started working with the National Parks Service in April 2023. The federal Office for Personnel Management (OPM) did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has proven useful to Jack and his boss, too.

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Futurism

MARCH 27, 2025

Though Gabbard's information was more locked down than her colleagues, Spiegel was still able to find her email address on WikiLeaks and Reddit. The Pentagon did not, the paper noted, respond to any requests for comment. Did they not conduct a thorough sweep of leaked data before entering office?

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The Verge

AUGUST 1, 2021

Panovka competed for Canada’s national team in high school and has reached the finals of over 10 university-level competitions; Wong was a semifinalist at the 2020 world championships. The group is diverse when it comes to race, gender, and nationality, but famous universities are heavily represented.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

Other channels banned include American Renaissance (with its associated channel AmRen Podcasts) and the channel for Spencer’s National Policy Institute. YouTube has banned several prominent white supremacist channels, including those belonging to Stefan Molyneux , David Duke , and Richard Spencer.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

It's called out Apple for allegedly blocking Proton VPN security updates after the United Nations recommended that people in Myanmar use Proton Mail to report crimes during the country's 2021 coup. VPN service aside, the company's record certainly reflects those goals. It's raised money for privacy activists in Hong Kong.

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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. Bobby Allyn / NPR). Talk to us.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian — the co-founder of Reddit — resigned from Reddit’s board of directors today. He announced the move in a tweet, urging the company to hire a black candidate in his stead and promising his future gains on Reddit stock to serve the black community. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

She also said Reddit should have long ago banned r/The_Donald, the controversial pro-Trump subreddit it quarantined last year for repeatedly violating its rules around hate speech and violent rhetoric. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day long [link] — Ellen K.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’m also worried that with our nation so divided and election results potentially taking days or even weeks to be finalized, there could be an increased risk of civil unrest across the country.”. It bubbled to the top of the feeds, and inspired many anguished comments. He continued: “This election is not going to be business as usual.

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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. Of even greater concern, though, is the speed and scale at which the attack unfolded — and the national security concerns it raises, which are profound. And at press time, we don’t know.

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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. When reporters printed out copies of the tweets to ask for comment, they still managed to avoid it.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The Democratic and Republican national committees have now both told staffers not to install the app on their phones for fear that TikTok could be sending back unspecified data to the Chinese government. I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all. What sort of data? Adi Robertson / The Verge ). “

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

officials' private contact details exposed on the internet, specifically information belonging to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth , and national security advisor Michael Waltz. DER SPIEGEL stated that Waltz, Hegseth, and Gabbard did not respond to its request for comment.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) Six years ago, for example, Reddit’s laissez-faire attitude toward moderation led a lot of people to post stolen nude photos on the site without the subjects’ consent. Reddit issued such a statement last week.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Today felt like an unusual lull in the intersection of our many unfolding national and global crises, and so I thought I’d take the opportunity to write about something different — a subject that, despite all my best efforts, I keep getting crushingly wrong. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Talk to us.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

We have seen Reddit ignore its most racist forums until they spun out into thriving standalone communities. Notably, Reddit banned QAnon forums starting in 2018 — long before it even banned hate speech — after the forums were found to be inciting violence. But in 2020 we know what happens when you let a movement fester. Talk to us.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Reddit bans The_Donald. The practical effect of Reddit removing what was perhaps its most notorious forum is likely to be limited. Its membership, which once numbered more than 800,000, had largely decamped to another website after Reddit placed The_Donald behind a warning screen last year.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

It was a big news day for bans: Twitch temporarily banned Donald Trump , Reddit banned The_Donald , YouTube banned a group of far-right creators , and India banned TikTok. Is that why so many of its decisions around content moderation suddenly feel like national emergencies? Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit encouraged militiamen to head to Kenosha, Washington, ostensibly to protect local businesses from protesters. The phenomenon was on full display at this week’s Republican National Convention. Election Integrity Partnership). Governing. ? In some cases, the discussions encouraged acts of violence.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Allison Schiff / AdExchanger ).

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 2, 2025

The president’s comments came less than one week before an April deadline requiring ByteDance to divest or face a ban in the United States. TikTok and ByteDance have not publicly commented on the talks. Speaking with reporters on Air Force One late Sunday, Trump said that theres tremendous interest in TikTok.”

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Most notably, the project forced Facebook to consider how it prioritized “user engagement”—a metric involving time spent, likes, shares and comments that for years had been the lodestar of its system. Is it national unity? A war has broken out on Reddit regarding how content is moderated. One-party rule?

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