The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

More conservative moderators have taken a heavy-handed approach to removing such posts — no non-shower thoughts in the shower thoughts forum ! The Ratio. ?? Third-party measurement companies say it achieved record downloads amid the spread of global protests over police brutality and news about the pandemic.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

That was Maxine Williams, Facebook’s global diversity officer. He noted that the original video of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer had been posted to Facebook, sparking global protests. The move escalates a global battle that will affect where tech giants like Facebook and Amazon pay taxes. The pessimist may not.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

France voted to force social media platforms to take down child exploitation and terrorism-related content within the hour or face a fine of up to 4 percent of their global revenue. The news comes days after Google settled with James Damore, the former Google engineer who sued over allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The remarks come in response to concerns that Facebook’s algorithm favors conservatives. Chinese authorities want ByteDance to retain control over TikTok’s global operations. But these criticisms are fair, and worth keeping in mind as it invites more people in. My Twitter feed melted down over these comments on Sunday.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

So far, no global-scale technology company has managed to get this balance right. A conservative advocacy group is running misleading ads on Google about voter fraud in Florida. Anyway, I write about these stories in tandem today to highlight just how hard the tradeoffs are here.

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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. The theory originated on an anonymous conservative blog. Ben Collins / NBC).

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JULY 30, 2020

Are you biased against conservatives?) When the Republicans began grilling him on why some conservatives have been banned from YouTube, Pichai said there are more conservative voices on YouTube today than there ever have been before. The QAnan conspiracy theory is spreading globally, thanks in part to the pandemic.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

And like other projects with global ambitions, it will also invite new scrutiny over privacy, data security, content moderation, and more. A conservative group is paying teenagers to pump out messaging in support of President Trump on Facebook and Twitter. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Why does Twitter leave phony pictures like this up, but take down Republican/Conservative pictures and statements that are true?” But WeChat, in addition to being a vital communication channel for the Chinese diaspora, is also a global conduit of Chinese state propaganda, surveillance and intimidation. the president wanted to know.

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JUNE 30, 2020

there needs to be much more enforcement in the area of hate speech,” Luis Di Como, Unilever’s executive vice president of global media, said. They have noted that, amid the global pandemic, advertisers have been reducing their advertising spending anyway. This represents a global expansion of the protest effort.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

One of the themes of the piece is that Facebook leadership is caught between competing forces in the United States: a liberal-leaning employee base versus a more conservative US population. The rushed negotiations and lack of clear terms led to big disagreements about who would control the 80 percent stake in TikTok Global.

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JULY 22, 2020

The company is already carbon neutral for its global corporate operations, but the new commitment would mean every Apple device sold would have net zero climate impact. LinkedIn plans to cut about 960 jobs, or 6 percent of its global workforce, due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Margaret Harding McGill / Axios ).

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

He said the company would hire 10,000 Americans — no small thing during a global recession. The idea that conservative voices are being censored during a time when they enjoy the broadest audience, and some of the widest support, in human history has become an article of faith for the Republican Party.).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

What a lot of people are saying — people that are really well read into global threats — is that TikTok doesn’t rank. Nathan Simington is known for supporting Republicans’ “bias against conservatives” schtick, and helped to craft a recent executive order about social media. Oh, I can think of some things. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

You can argue that the company is more sensitive to pressure from conservatives in the United States, and a lot of good reporting has borne that out in the past few years. The move affected more than 2,000 people globally who had signed offers to be a contract or temp worker. Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

In keeping with Republican tradition, there will also be bad-faith questions about conservative bias.). Big tech companies including Google , Amazon and Qualcomm are bankrolling The Global Antitrust Institute at George Mason University, which teaches a hands-off approach to antitrust law. But they may be a start. Governing. ?

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

One global company based in America? He wrote in a letter to employees: In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, I have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for. Multiple companies operating independently ?

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. Those flameouts are most tangible in the courts.

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