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. Reddit bans The_Donald. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. And what’s the best path to get there?”.

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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

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. And if it succeeds, the new normal will look a lot like the old one.

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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

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. We have seen Reddit ignore its most racist forums until they spun out into thriving standalone communities. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

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. Reddit added a new feature called Image Gallery that lets people combine multiples images or GIFs in a single post. Mary Hui / Quartz ). Andrew Marino / The Verge ).

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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

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. What sort of data?

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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 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.”. Governing. ? 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. Governing. ? The update comes three weeks after several Reddit forums went dark in protest of the company’s lax policies around hosting racist content.

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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. Black Reddit moderators say hate speech and abuse are the norm. Targeted shutdowns have been used in recent months to silence dissent.

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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 28, 2020

Governing. ? Google sent 1,755 warnings to users whose accounts were targets of government-backed attackers last month. A war has broken out on Reddit regarding how content is moderated. The company is expanding a product that allows businesses to sell gift cards during the government shutdown.

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