TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

NFTs are being used for far more than just proving you own a JPEG on the internet. Imagine walking up to an artwork, being able to scan it with your phone, and seeing its entire web presence and ownership history pop up on your screen — that’s how the chip turns any object into a NFT, he explained. Americana just raised $6.9

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And on Monday, Facebook made one of the biggest policy reversals in its history, banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust. That work was comprehensive enough that, if you didn’t know the history, you might assume that Facebook had carved out an exemption to its hate speech policies specifically to allow for Holocaust denial.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

Slash quickly became popular with teenagers because its virtual cards were debit-based, available to people 13 or older and didn’t limit spending based on credit history. In the subsequent months, Cardenas and Bai say that they saw an opportunity to got after a larger market: young, commerce-focused entrepreneurs.

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The Verge

APRIL 25, 2022

That phrase — “digital town square” — has a long and messy history in social networking. Many content moderation problems can be harder in these semi-private and private spaces, though Musk and Twitter could learn a lot from platforms like Reddit and Discord on that front. Yesss!!! ?? To be clear, none of this is easy!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Within days, hundreds of millions of clicks, reblogs, tweets, shares, and media stories, including a key Buzzfeed post , carried the argument around the Internet to every country in the world. The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. With success comes downsides.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

It more or less goes on like this for the rest of the top 20: lots of viral questions stolen from Reddit, Quora, Twitter or other sites, rewarded with huge engagement on Facebook. And if you’ve studied the history of Facebook , perhaps that won’t come as much of a surprise. Maybe at this point you’re rolling your eyes.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Any type of text that’s been uploaded to the internet has likely become grist to GPT-3’s mighty pattern-matching mill. Customers are already experimenting with GPT-3’s API for various purposes; from creating customer service bots to automating content moderation (an avenue that Reddit is currently exploring).

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Click around on Reddit It’s one of the top platforms for user-generated content and there are constant discussions (ranging from serious to, er, very light) on a huge variety of topics. Internet culture has its own lexicon of joke frames (think of it as the knock-knock joke but with even weirder humor).

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Click around on Reddit It’s one of the top platforms for user-generated content and there are constant discussions (ranging from serious to, er, very light) on a huge variety of topics. Internet culture has its own lexicon of joke frames (think of it as the knock-knock joke but with even weirder humor).

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

This is how #hongkong ppl spend our time during coronavirus lockdown - villain hitting in #animalcrossing , the villain is #CarrieLam , the worst governor in #hongkong history. Also throughout April (and beyond): New Horizons’ turnips bring the internet together. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

Mid-aughts news aggregator Digg is making a comeback, thanks to a pairing that would have seemd unlikely when the site debuted in 2004: Digg founder Kevin Rose and a former corporate rival, Reddit cofounder and former CEO Alexis Ohanian. Reddit had raised $12,000 at YC. We felt like outsiders. This was the birth of the new web 2.0

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Reddit has named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. was an early recipient of Y Combinator seed money through the accelerator’s startup fund, as was Reddit. I want to thank Steve, Alexis, and the entire Reddit board for this opportunity. Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

The announcement wasnt a total surprise: After the groundbreaking Chinese open-source model DeepSeek-R1 showed up in January, Altman said during a Reddit AMA that he realized his company was on the wrong side of history and suggested an OpenAI open-source model was a real possibility.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

In addition to GPT-4, OpenAI recently connected ChatGPT to the internet with plugins available in alpha to users and developers on the waitlist. July 6, 2023 OpenAI announced the general availability of GPT-4 Starting July 6, all existing OpenAI developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

When Stable Diffusion , the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI , was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. Recent history is filled with examples of spectacular failures at adult content moderation. The group has its work cut out for it.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

The entire internet was abuzz with bans yesterday, as social platforms rushed to finally enforce their rules against hate groups all in a rush. As of this writing, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube had done so. Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules. ? And the ban played on.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The results often dont amount to anything more than internet chum. He made the news by selling an image hed created using AI to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where it will be included in an upcoming exhibit called Queer Lens: A History of Photography. Read More What is Y Combinator now?

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

The eight-year-old Swiss provider maintains open-source apps, abides by strong privacy practices that have held up in court, provides censorship bypassing tools, and supports internet freedom causes. Proton VPN history and reputation Proton VPN is run by Proton AG, a Swiss tech company owned by the nonprofit Proton Foundation.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

On the other hand, the number of places where they can easily find new followers on the internet appears to be shrinking, and for that at least I’m grateful. Reddit bans The_Donald. The practical effect of Reddit removing what was perhaps its most notorious forum is likely to be limited. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network.

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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.) Partly this is an internet problem: bringing the world online makes it easier for bad people to find each other and make common cause. Google will now automatically delete location and search history by default for new users.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history , it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago. Reddit added a new feature called Image Gallery that lets people combine multiples images or GIFs in a single post.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

When he opened TikTok, he found approximately 210 network requests in the first nine seconds, totaling over 500 kilobytes of data sent from the app to the Internet. And those posts might get even wider distribution than their ads, if history is any guide. I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Broadly speaking, this practice — masking the true sponsor of an idea to make it appear as though it originates from average citizens — is called astroturfing, and it has a long history. India, with its half-billion internet users, is emerging as a key battleground between TikTok and YouTube. Some are even getting death threats.

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Global Giving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

However, the impact—and the threat—is real for people everywhere on the internet. The history and importance of the law has been described elsewhere; Casey Newton of Platformer and formerly of the Verge did a particularly great job. A chilling effect. Facebook has acknowledged this.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

A recent group chat between high-ranking Trump officials may not exactly have been secure , but its place in internet culture certainly is. After Goldberg published his scorching account of Signalgate on Monday, the internet erupted in speculation. Ironically, group chats across the country were likely consumed with it.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

What was once a hot site that a few Reddit users were quick to hype up is now one of the dating sites that Reddit users can't help but diss — in the few instances that AFF is even being discussed at all. The Reddit community is diverse and open-minded; if a dating site exists, someone on Reddit has used it and has an opinion.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We’re long enough into the history of these apps that we know many of the ways in which they will be used, and misused. The app, which like Clubhouse is available only in private beta and requires an invitation to use, resembles a hybrid of Twitter and Reddit. But Reddit can’t explain why. As always, there are tradeoffs.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

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.). Trending up : Twitter is supporting a campaign aimed at stopping internet shutdowns. Ina Fried / Axios ).

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