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 25, 2020

The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.) Send us tips, comments, questions, and wild Boogaloo sightings: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. The question is what steps those networks are prepared to take to stop that from happening. percent for YouTube and 76.6

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

The new feature organizes all of the retweets with comments into a handy list. People who’ve lost family members to the QAnon conspiracy theory are turning to Reddit to commiserate with other survivors. Send us tips, comments, questions, and weirdly expensive items on Amazon: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Talk to us.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Also: more than 650 subreddits have now signed on to this open letter to Reddit calling for the company to, among other things, enact a site-wide policy against racism and hate speech. Send us tips, comments, questions, and bad predictions: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. link] — Stacie Michelle (@staciemichelle) June 7, 2020.

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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. Reddit added a new feature called Image Gallery that lets people combine multiples images or GIFs in a single post. Palmer Haasch / Business Insider ). Those good tweets. 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

JUNE 11, 2020

When reporters printed out copies of the tweets to ask for comment, they still managed to avoid it. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. Send us tips, comments, questions, and email templates about how much you love monopolies: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Mark Gurman / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all. A spokesperson for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra declined to comment. Send us tips, comments, questions, and political ads: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. The thing about powerful gatekeepers is they have power! Talk to us.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It bubbled to the top of the feeds, and inspired many anguished comments. Send us tips, comments, questions, and the most controversial post inside Facebook right now: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Between March 1 and Aug. I have no doubt it will make Facebook a better place to work. Talk to us.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The app, which like Clubhouse is available only in private beta and requires an invitation to use, resembles a hybrid of Twitter and Reddit. And as on Reddit, every post must be created within a group, which Telepath calls a “network.”. But Reddit can’t explain why. Thanks again for the readers who made this story possible.

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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. Reddit banned more than 2,000 subreddits, including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse, as part of a major expansion of its content policy targeting hate speech.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Black Reddit moderators say hate speech and abuse are the norm. Some describe hearing “radio silence” from Reddit administrators in response to their concerns, though they’re cautiously optimistic that could change with the platform’s new content policies. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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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. Send us tips, comments, questions, and TikToks set inside a Walmart: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Perhaps one of the companies now circling it can replicate them eventually.

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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. A war has broken out on Reddit regarding how content is moderated. And it will be all over Twitter. Theodore Schleifer / Recode ).

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