The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

While native medicinal practitioners used cannabis to treat illnesses in the past, a law introduced in 1935 under British colonial rule criminalized cannabis. Despite these laws, cannabis is the most-used illicit drug in Sri Lanka , with an estimated 600,000 users ; natural scientist Wasantha Sena Weliange believes that number is much higher.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

If the phrase evokes images of celebrities hawking hard seltzer, think again: An influencer can be as humble as an enthusiastic Reddit user who manages your Telegram channel. According to Uber growth marketing manager Jonathan Martinez: “ … You don’t need to find influencers with millions of followers.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The company has promoted encrypted messaging across its ecosystem, encouraged limits on how mobile apps can gather data, and fought law enforcement agencies looking for user records. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and many other companies scan users’ files against hash libraries, often using a Microsoft-built tool called PhotoDNA.

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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. Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

X owner Elon Musk was privately messaging with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman while also putting public pressure on the social media company’s content moderation efforts, The Verge reported Thursday. Two months ago, several Reddit subreddits started to block links to X in protest of Musk appearing to give the Nazi salute.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 13, 2025

The law shields online platforms from liability for user-generated content while allowing moderation in good faith. If no agreement is reached by the deadline Section 230 would cease to be law. The debate over the law centers on balancing accountability for harmful content with the risks of censorship and stifled innovation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

As you may know, the government has been tightening regulations associated with deep synthesis technologies (DST) and generative AI services, including ChatGPT. Although OpenAI notes it may not grant every request since it must balance privacy requests against freedom of expression “in accordance with applicable laws”.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Governing. ? Researchers discovered a Russian misinformation campaign that used forged documents and a network of burner accounts to spread rumors across Facebook and Reddit. In the years that followed, the campaign shifted to Reddit, Medium, and even the user-generated portion of BuzzFeed. Charlie Warzel and Stuart A.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

On a Reddit thread, a number of 23andMe customers said they are having trouble actually deleting their data. Reddit user jacmrose complained, “tried canceling and never got the email they are supposed to send to confirm.” And they’re taking to social media to air their complaints.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating TikTok , Reddit , and Imgur over how they handle children's personal data, the agency announced on Monday. TikTok, the ByteDance-owned video sharing platform, has faced increasing scrutiny in recent years over its ties to the Chinese government.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

The pandemic has made clear that many of our most essential workers are also among the lowest paid — and even for the most comfortable, it’s clear that during a time of crisis neither their company nor the US government will fully protect them from disaster. Governing. ? Elizabeth Dwoskin / The Washington Post ). Bobby Allyn / NPR).

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

(Under Swiss law, such requests can't proceed without a court order.). This is one of dozens of such data requests flagged in Proton VPN's transparency report , which is updated every time it receives a legal request for information via court order or a government entity (most recently in September 2024).

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2022

In a TED interview, he indicated that Twitter should “match the laws of the country,” which suggests he could continue practices like region-locking certain content and follow rules like India’s social media regulations. But Musk’s view of free speech doesn’t seem too concerned with that.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

An Arkansas law requiring social media companies to verify the ages of their users has been struck down by a federal judge who ruled that it was unconstitutional. The decision is a significant victory for the social media companies and digital rights groups that have opposed the law and others like it. direct messaging" like Snapchat.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Should Reddit pay its volunteer moderators? Reddit’s content moderation scheme differs sharply from the Facebook News Feed or the Twitter timeline. But the moderators themselves often become collateral damage, Reddit executives said. “To If that’s the case, isn’t the least Reddit could do to pay these moderators?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake nude imagery of celebrities. Even then, the company has adopted a laissez-faire approach to governance, placing the onus on the AI community to use Stable Diffusion responsibly.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency , Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats. workplace antidiscrimination laws that has undergone tumultuous change since President Donald Trump took office. “I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

A number of interested buyers have come forward, including YouTuber MrBeast, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian and Perplexity AI. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, who joined a group of investors known as Project Liberty, has hinted at a vision for TikTok that somehow ties in with blockchain technology.

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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

JULY 15, 2020

The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. Trending down : Hong Kong activists worry Apple may be censoring the voting platform PopVote, which was developed for the opposition’s primaries — an unofficial election that also served as a protest against the city’s national security law imposed last month by Beijing.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

passed its sell-or-ban law last year due to security concerns. Interest is high for the popular short-form video platform and includes heavy hitters like Oracle, Mr. Beast, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, Microsoft, and Project Liberty, a group led by former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

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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. ? Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors.

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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. The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.)

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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. I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all. Governing. ? What sort of data?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Last week, President Donald Trump fired more people as part of his ongoing quest to prevent the government from doing the basic work of governing. Humphreys Executor is basic, first-year-of-law-school stuff; if this fact pattern were to appear on a final exam, every law student would answer correctly.

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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. ? Tough questions, but ones platforms can play a role in answering.

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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

JULY 31, 2020

Governing. ? European regulators are drafting new laws aimed a curbing the power of the big tech companies in a way that previously regulations have not. 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.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

It was just a few days ago that I wrote this column about how the Boogaloo movement — a loose-knit collection of anti-government types, some of whom are agitating for a second civil war — had hijacked social networks to spread. Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent.

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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. Maybe your reaction is that’s terrible, we should get rid of the law that makes all that posting possible. Governing. ? Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And while sometimes these outside consulting projects approach the client with kid gloves, lead auditor Laura Murphy and her team at the law firm Relman Colfax delivered an 89-page assessment of Facebook’s policies around voter suppression, hate speech, algorithmic bias, and content moderation that is measured but often unsparing.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Josh Hawley (R-MO), scurried to stroke the president’s ego with deceitful interpretations of law and threats to sue Twitter. Republicans who recently warned of a “government takeover of the internet” are now staging one in reverse — trying to turn the internet into the government.

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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. ? Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit encouraged militiamen to head to Kenosha, Washington, ostensibly to protect local businesses from protesters.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

And local governments are planning for much longer periods of lockdown. Governing. ? The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are blaming hackers linked with the Chinese government for attempting to steal US research into a coronavirus vaccine. Is there anything Amazon would like to change amid the pandemic?

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

Trump himself has said he would like to see a bidding war for the app and that the US government should own a stake in the company. government to own up to half of that new structure once it makes an initial public offering of at least $300 billion. A number of people and companies have signaled some interest in TikTok. the blockchain.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 2, 2025

Last week, Trump said he would consider a reduction in tariffs on China if that countrys government approves a sale of TikToks operations in the U.S. Questions about the fate of the popular video sharing app have continued to linger since a law requiring ByteDances divestment took effect on January 19.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

And whatever Trump may think, as the law professor Kate Klonick noted , “The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump. Governing. ? Instead, the complaint focuses on federal securities law, arguing that Facebook’s failure to tell shareholders about the extent of illegal activity on its platform is a violation of its fiduciary duty.

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