The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

However, the onset of vandalism could make network effects work in reverse if the system doesn’t scale its ability to govern user activity. A user’s karma on Hacker News or Reddit is a function of the community’s assessment of her ability to produce consistently and with high quality.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

contains some 2.27BN acres of total land area, per Wikipedia ). Its elevator pitch is also punchy: “Our mission is explicitly to solve climate change through mass reforestation,” says founder Yishan Wong — whose name may be familiar as the ex-Reddit CEO (and also a former early-stage engineer at PayPal/Facebook).

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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. Dara Kerr and Shara Tibken / CNET).

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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

In the delightfully dry phrasing of Wikipedia authors, “ 2: Electric Boogaloo became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody.”). The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.) Why are there so many Boogaloo groups on Facebook and elsewhere?

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