TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Not that NSA : Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari signs the Nigeria Startup Bill into law , reports Tage. Kyle wrote about Reddit, whose chief product officer, Pali Bhat, told the crowd that over 3 million of its users have tapped into its Vault blockchain wallet to create over 3 million crypto wallets to date.

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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. AI does a really poor job, of course, of enabling these things.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Google , Facebook, and Twitter won’t process user data requests from the Hong Kong government amid concerns that a new security law could criminalize protests. It’s unclear what actions will be considered to violate the new law, but police arrested a man last week for brandishing a Hong Kong independence flag. Bobby Allyn / NPR).

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The other fear is that China will influence ByteDance, either directly indirectly, to push a worldview that embraces censorship and political oppression on America and the world at large. I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all. Stylistically, they’re laws. The Hill ).

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

But Facebook has always said that the service works so well because you can trust that the person you’re talking to is actually your friend or family member, and not someone who is faking their identity to influence you toward some malign purpose. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The story, by Maxwell Tani and Spencer Ackerman, recounts a controversy that broke out inside the company when one of its 50,000 employees posted a short essay to its internal Workplace forum titled “In Support of Law Enforcement and Black Lives.” The unusual move has prompted new scrutiny of political influence at the department.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep.

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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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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 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

But it will give reviewers insight into the signals the app takes into account when choosing which videos to promote — a move that, the company hopes, will dispel fears that it will be used to push propaganda or influence campaigns at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party. Black Reddit moderators say hate speech and abuse are the norm.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Last month it hired the prominent executive Kevin Mayer away from Disney to be TikTok’s CEO, giving ByteDance a face of the American business establishment to go before Congress and ask questions about how the Communist Party of China might plan to use TikTok as part of an influence campaign. Ali Breland / Mother Jones ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

But the TikTok challenge promises to be much harder — the company will have to somehow recreate ByteDance’s powerful algorithmic feed , design a steady stream of new features and experiences to keep influencers engaged, and fend off fierce competition from Facebook, Snapchat, and a host of TikTok clones along the way. Governing. ?

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